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This was a fascinating UK Class System primer; thank you very much for answering all of my insipid questions. I learned everything I know about 'traditional' British culture from old episodes of Jeeves & Wooster, so these things were mostly a surprise to me. I had visions of a "middle class" Stephen Fry sitting in some kind of vulgar, over-decorated, acrylic faux-castle, Twittering away on twelve iPads with a mermaid-shaped fountain in the foyer and a corndog-making machine in the kitchen. And I thought, Oh, but that’s so adorable! Why would anyone hold that against him?
Knowledge is power!
In the US, we also use the term "middle class" to mean "appallingly conservative/materialistic/old-fashioned," so there’s another layer of whut? to toss on the pile. (But I think I sort of get it now.) (I think.)
An 'Appalachian patois,' arhar, is "talking like a hillbilly." The other day my mother called me and told me they had produced magic TiVos that can edit out commercials for you, and that these magic TiVos have been on the market for the last ten years, and I said: "Awwww! I hain’t never heard-tell a’sich a thang!" On the other hand, I have a totally accent-free voice that I use for work (and school, back in the day). Mummy tells me she always knows when I’m at a tutoring appointment when she calls me, because I sound "uptight and white." So, sadly enough, I guess I kind of get where England is coming from with the accents.
Sherlock was so strong and naturalistic a character that I didn’t really react to him as if he were fictional at all — I treated him sort of like a person. I didn’t think to question his habits or his style or any of the dozens other things that you analyze when you’re picking apart a character. But, now I can kind of see Sherlock forgoing a food budget so that he can get his suits tailored. Aw! Cute!! Sherlock may be fancy, but he can’t be all that rich, can he? I mean, he did have to get a roommate.
Cutest video ever! Thanks for the link! I would’ve chopped my fingers off, if I were him. I put onions in one of those horrible infomercial things to dice them. Also, that is a very awesome Alan Rickman impersonation he has there. It’s much better than mine. (I refuse to believe that Cumberbatch is a homophobe, even a very little one, and I will continue to cling to the idea that he was misquoted unless he is actually involved in a hate crime.)
I am definitely going to read anything called Moab Is My Washpot. Definitely! It is going on the list tonight. My stereotypes of public schools (and how weird is that? that is very weird! I thought they were called "public schools" because they were non-religious) mostly come from things like The History Boys. Eeheeheeehee!
When the very first Harry Potter movie came out years and years and years ago, when I was but a slip of a girl and all the world was young, I read this enraged essay a British fan wrote complaining that they’d made Movie Hogwarts on the model of Eton. And I was like, Haha! "Eton"! What a funny name! What is that?
the fanart of Sherlock with cat ears though WHAT FANART OF SHERLOCK WITH CAT EARS THIS IS A VERY VALID ARTISTIC CONCEIT DATING BACK TO THE 16TH CENTURY AND THE KABUKI THEATER WHERE IS IT PLEASE THANK YOU?
I have always been really fascinated by English literature — in my opinion, it’s the best in the world, and there’s nothing like it anywhere (in a positive way) — but I’ve always just glossed over or ignored anything I found in it that put me off. So, I’m very ignorant of many things, even things that I should’ve known just from books. Like, say, "Eton." I think I’ve definitely run on that one, once or twice.
I should probably do something about that, actually.
But, thank you again. This is my cutest emoticon: ☆〜（ゝ。∂）
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Date: 2010-11-10 05:51 am (UTC)This was a fascinating UK Class System primer; thank you very much for answering all of my insipid questions. I learned everything I know about 'traditional' British culture from old episodes of Jeeves & Wooster, so these things were mostly a surprise to me. I had visions of a "middle class" Stephen Fry sitting in some kind of vulgar, over-decorated, acrylic faux-castle, Twittering away on twelve iPads with a mermaid-shaped fountain in the foyer and a corndog-making machine in the kitchen. And I thought, Oh, but that’s so adorable! Why would anyone hold that against him?
Knowledge is power!
In the US, we also use the term "middle class" to mean "appallingly conservative/materialistic/old-fashioned," so there’s another layer of whut? to toss on the pile. (But I think I sort of get it now.) (I think.)
An 'Appalachian patois,' arhar, is "talking like a hillbilly." The other day my mother called me and told me they had produced magic TiVos that can edit out commercials for you, and that these magic TiVos have been on the market for the last ten years, and I said: "Awwww! I hain’t never heard-tell a’sich a thang!" On the other hand, I have a totally accent-free voice that I use for work (and school, back in the day). Mummy tells me she always knows when I’m at a tutoring appointment when she calls me, because I sound "uptight and white." So, sadly enough, I guess I kind of get where England is coming from with the accents.
Sherlock was so strong and naturalistic a character that I didn’t really react to him as if he were fictional at all — I treated him sort of like a person. I didn’t think to question his habits or his style or any of the dozens other things that you analyze when you’re picking apart a character. But, now I can kind of see Sherlock forgoing a food budget so that he can get his suits tailored. Aw! Cute!! Sherlock may be fancy, but he can’t be all that rich, can he? I mean, he did have to get a roommate.
Cutest video ever! Thanks for the link! I would’ve chopped my fingers off, if I were him. I put onions in one of those horrible infomercial things to dice them. Also, that is a very awesome Alan Rickman impersonation he has there.
It’s much better than mine.(I refuse to believe that Cumberbatch is a homophobe, even a very little one, and I will continue to cling to the idea that he was misquoted unless he is actually involved in a hate crime.)
I am definitely going to read anything called Moab Is My Washpot. Definitely! It is going on the list tonight.
My stereotypes of public schools (and how weird is that? that is very weird! I thought they were called "public schools" because they were non-religious) mostly come from things like The History Boys. Eeheeheeehee!
When the very first Harry Potter movie came out years and years and years ago, when I was but a slip of a girl and all the world was young, I read this enraged essay a British fan wrote complaining that they’d made Movie Hogwarts on the model of Eton. And I was like, Haha! "Eton"! What a funny name! What is that?
the fanart of Sherlock with cat ears though
WHAT FANART OF SHERLOCK WITH CAT EARS THIS IS A VERY VALID ARTISTIC CONCEIT DATING BACK TO THE 16TH CENTURY AND THE KABUKI THEATER WHERE IS IT PLEASE THANK YOU?
I have always been really fascinated by English literature — in my opinion, it’s the best in the world, and there’s nothing like it anywhere (in a positive way) — but I’ve always just glossed over or ignored anything I found in it that put me off. So, I’m very ignorant of many things, even things that I should’ve known just from books. Like, say, "Eton." I think I’ve definitely run on that one, once or twice.
I should probably do something about that, actually.
But, thank you again. This is my cutest emoticon: ☆〜（ゝ。∂）