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Old 09-30-2017, 04:58 PM
 
Location: alexandria, VA
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Mel Blanc was VERY talented.
The man of a thousand voices.
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Old 09-30-2017, 06:59 PM
 
Location: Lake Grove
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I love his epitaph: "That's all, folks!"



Quite profound.
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Old 10-01-2017, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne
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Actually it would be "there's a flaw in the flaw". The "r" is usually silent in a true NYC accent.
Really? I had no idear.
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Old 10-01-2017, 10:33 AM
 
Location: The Ranch in Olam Haba
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And remember the plural of You is Yuus.
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Old 10-02-2017, 01:32 PM
 
Location: Manhattan
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For some reason, a lot of people seem to have the idea that real New Yorkers talk like Paulie Walnuts. And that people without mafioso accents must be transplants.


But you can look at old videos of New York (before the wave of gentrification) and most people don't talk like that.

Some people learn to speak properly, others don't and just prattle the way their parents did.
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