A lot of those charts with different words are exaggerated. I saw one once that claimed we use 'hotel' for restaurant in England. We definitely don't. On the other hand, there are quite a few differences, but we get so much American TV we know all the words and it's pretty easy to switch between the two. On one forum (not fandom) Someone once told me that even before they knew where I was from, all my posts came out in Bridget Jones' accent in their head. I guess I switch things around subconsciously..! (My accent it nothing like Bridget Jones, btw. I'm from the north. (We're a bit Game of Thrones about that north/south divide over here!)
Mike's accent... Accents are really hard to communicate in writing. I;ve read things where people have tried to spell words out phonetically to how certain people pronounce them, and it;s just awful. Nothing wrong with droppin' the occasional letter now 'n'then, but trying to do anything else is pretty much impossible and you're stuck just saying that they have this accent or that. Which to be honest, works fine. The reader just incorporates that info into their overall picture of the character.
Mike might be good at accents in general. Like how Stick wanted Elektra to copy the family he placed her with, learn to act like a different kind of people, he might have wanted Mike to be able to do the same to a certain extent. Or maybe it's just a talent he has. This came to me yesterday. I've been imagining Mike with this voice that is just totally, totally wrong for him, and I knew it had come from somewhere but I didn't know where. It randomly popped into my head yesterday that it was from the audiobook of Brandon Sanderson's Alloy of Law books. I don't know if you're familiar with them, but there's the character called Wayne, and personality-wise he's not that dissimilar from Mike, I don't think. He has this ridiculous gift for accents, that he uses to trick people into thinking he is someone else, he mixes them together, carefully slips from one to another to make someone more comfortable, or to arouse their suspicion if he needs to. It's very cool. (I find accents fascinating generally anyway) So anyway, I kind of merged the two characters in my head and assigned Mike a similar ability. Might not be a good idea though, don't want Mike to be able to do too much, or he becomes a Gary-Stu!
Yes, the bar should definitely be Josies :-) Maybe Mike knows the place, that's why he takes Foggy there. Then it could be Foggy that introduces Matt to it later.
Oh, there is plenty of binge drinking here, going out and getting wasted is the main way students enjoy themselves! Though I did read an article not so long ago saying drinking and drug taking is on the decline in young people. But when I was at uni (there's a word difference!) me and a friend got through a whole bottle of vodka one night just sat watching TV till 6am. And that was a fairly average night in. Nights out... you probably don't want to know! :-). It's a places' culture more than its laws that govern that kind of behavior, and there is a huge drinking culture here, to the extent that if you don't drink, or even if you're in a pub or something and not drinking at that particular moment, people are liable to quiz you about it. Pretty weird, when you think about it! I think it's different in parts of mainland Europe though.
The fictional Panhgalactic gargleblaster has some kind of drug in it that suppresses telekinesis, if I remember right. It's been a while since I read the Hitchhiker's guide. But the real one they serve at Spider's nightclub has a very strange combination of stuff in it. Including a jelly worm, which makes me think of Foggy and Karen drinking the eel!
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Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-04-22 07:46 pm (UTC)Mike's accent... Accents are really hard to communicate in writing. I;ve read things where people have tried to spell words out phonetically to how certain people pronounce them, and it;s just awful. Nothing wrong with droppin' the occasional letter now 'n'then, but trying to do anything else is pretty much impossible and you're stuck just saying that they have this accent or that. Which to be honest, works fine. The reader just incorporates that info into their overall picture of the character.
Mike might be good at accents in general. Like how Stick wanted Elektra to copy the family he placed her with, learn to act like a different kind of people, he might have wanted Mike to be able to do the same to a certain extent. Or maybe it's just a talent he has. This came to me yesterday. I've been imagining Mike with this voice that is just totally, totally wrong for him, and I knew it had come from somewhere but I didn't know where. It randomly popped into my head yesterday that it was from the audiobook of Brandon Sanderson's Alloy of Law books. I don't know if you're familiar with them, but there's the character called Wayne, and personality-wise he's not that dissimilar from Mike, I don't think. He has this ridiculous gift for accents, that he uses to trick people into thinking he is someone else, he mixes them together, carefully slips from one to another to make someone more comfortable, or to arouse their suspicion if he needs to. It's very cool. (I find accents fascinating generally anyway) So anyway, I kind of merged the two characters in my head and assigned Mike a similar ability. Might not be a good idea though, don't want Mike to be able to do too much, or he becomes a Gary-Stu!
Yes, the bar should definitely be Josies :-) Maybe Mike knows the place, that's why he takes Foggy there. Then it could be Foggy that introduces Matt to it later.
Oh, there is plenty of binge drinking here, going out and getting wasted is the main way students enjoy themselves! Though I did read an article not so long ago saying drinking and drug taking is on the decline in young people. But when I was at uni (there's a word difference!) me and a friend got through a whole bottle of vodka one night just sat watching TV till 6am. And that was a fairly average night in. Nights out... you probably don't want to know! :-). It's a places' culture more than its laws that govern that kind of behavior, and there is a huge drinking culture here, to the extent that if you don't drink, or even if you're in a pub or something and not drinking at that particular moment, people are liable to quiz you about it. Pretty weird, when you think about it! I think it's different in parts of mainland Europe though.
The fictional Panhgalactic gargleblaster has some kind of drug in it that suppresses telekinesis, if I remember right. It's been a while since I read the Hitchhiker's guide. But the real one they serve at Spider's nightclub has a very strange combination of stuff in it. Including a jelly worm, which makes me think of Foggy and Karen drinking the eel!
I'm rambling on again, sorry!! :)