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People in the 50s, 70s speak differently from now, why dont more authors or tv shows use fictional accents? (lemm.ee)
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I think the Expanse and Cloud Atlas did it, are there any other good examples?

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[–] Moghul 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's harder for people to follow, subtitles don't help everyone, harder for the actors to get right and keep consistent, etc.

It's just easier to let the actors speak 'normally'.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can tweak things just a bit without getting unintelligible. Like Mad Max: Fury Road using chrome as an adjective. Firefly uses shiny a lot to mean good in general.

[–] Moghul 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Well, that's not an accent, that's vocabulary, and plenty of shows do it, often to bypass censors. See Farscape's frell, frack. It's done in video games too - for example, 2077 has a pretty rich vocab

[–] Alexstarfire 5 points 1 year ago

Holy forking shirtballs

[–] TheActualDevil 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then the premise of the post doesn't make sense. People in the 50's and 70's didn't have different accents. They used different vocabulary, but accents have not changed much in the past 70 years. Quick accent changes just don't happen that quickly outside of extremely isolated groups. You might be thinking of the transatlantic accent from tv and radio or whatever, but that was an affectation by actors and presenters. It wasn't real.

[–] Moghul 3 points 1 year ago

I mean, I'm not the OP, take it up with them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's basically translation convention minus the overt indication that it's a translation.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TranslationConvention