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With Apologies to Dee . . .

January 19, 2008 10:59 AM

watched the movie Gone Baby Gone last night. It was really, really good, which is hard for me to admit seeing as how there were two Afflecks involved in its production. But the movie was very well written and surprisingly unafflecky. And the younger Affleck did a very good job. Except in one crucial aspect of his performance: his infuriating Boston accent.

Now, I've only been to Boston once--on a school trip when I was a little kid. I remember liking it a lot because we got to see a bunch of really cool American history-related things. I do not remember anyone speaking with that fucking accent. Which is lucky, because it would have been hard for me to explain, even at eleven years old, why I killed everyone around me that talked like that.

Seriously--who the fuck pronounces "dark" more like "dock" than, you know, "dark." And since when is "fuck" pronounced "faaaahck"?

Some have noted that the Midwestern accent--particularly all that "donchaknow" shit from Minnesota--is annoying. It can be and, frankly, I assume that anyone that speaks like that would be easy to con out of money and property. But I usually find it sort of endearing. At the very least, I'm not filled with the urge to murder anyone who speaks like that, which is more than I can say for the motherfuckers that speak as though the letter R has been removed from the fucking language.



14 Comments


dicta said:

ben affleck is hack, but i like casey. he was great in "drowning mona"

January 19, 2008 12:32 PM



Anonymouse said:

In my experience, the Boston accent grows on you. At first it's really a little too strange. Then you just get used to it, and find it a hell of a lot more bearable than the Northern Midwestern accent. In movies and TV, the Boston accent is way too over-the-top. In parts of Boston, it's strong, but generally speaking, it's nothing like the movies.

However, the best New England accent is the Maine accent. I love the Ayuh. What the hell is that?

January 19, 2008 8:44 PM



tRJ said:

The Boston accent is badass. If I had to have one other than the one I currently have, it'd be that one.

January 19, 2008 11:11 PM



Dee said:

well, opinions and assholes. i think "fahhhhhhhk" gets as close to the spirit of the word as is humanly possible.

January 20, 2008 4:48 AM



Anonymous said:

Fuck the Red Sox.

January 20, 2008 9:24 AM



Ismael Tapia II said:

Who said anything about the Red Sox?

January 20, 2008 10:14 AM



Lily said:

Well, as I'm currently in Boston, and I'm about to go to the south side to a sports bar to watch the Patyyeots play the Chahgehs, I can only say "Shut ya fahckin' mouth, ya wankah."

The Boston accent grows on you. It reminds me of good times. Like the one I'm going to have today. Sam Adams, good friends, and lots of men. Bwahahaha. Paris says hi!

January 20, 2008 11:02 AM



Anonymouse said:

Ahh, the south side. You would get the full Boston accent there. God I miss Boston.

January 20, 2008 12:29 PM



estefanita said:

I was on that same trip and I vividly remember hearing someone saying something about a caaar. I think we were in maaarket at the time. it stuck with me because it reminded me of the noise this one bird made in the mornings when i lived in valle verde. caaar caaar caaar!

January 21, 2008 3:26 AM



Ismael Tapia II said:

Blah. I hate thinking about that trip, mostly because I was an immature little bitch and because there were some really assholes on it. And, as I remember, you and I didn't get along at all, maybe. I don't know, I've blocked out most of elementary school.

January 21, 2008 3:49 AM



Dee said:

i guess i didn't read this whole post before. what grade did you take the boston trip during?

January 21, 2008 10:11 AM



frank x. said:

Anne's family all speak with heavy Boston accents. The reason people in the center of Boston don't have the accent is because a lot of them are transplants. If you go to a Boston suburb everyone speaks with a thick accent.

January 21, 2008 12:19 PM



TheExpat said:

Frankly (hats off to Frank), I like accents. If everybody talked the same life would be that much more uninteresting. But there's nothing worse than an affected accent. Madonna's 'Material Girl' was annoying, and the whole Valley Girl thing made me want to strangle my female classmates in elementary and middle school for being idiots.

January 22, 2008 12:35 AM



Ismael Tapia II said:

I'm not saying that Boston sucks or that people from Boston are stupid. Or even that all accents are annoying. I'm saying that people who speak with a pronounced Boston accent sound like douchebags. That's it. I mean, there are some accents I really like. For example, I think that certain Australian and New Zealand accents are kind of entertaining. And, of course, a good British accent is distinguished and, in a woman, can be pretty sexy. But there are some accents--like that whole "pahk the cah" thing--that grate on my nerves. Others I can't stand include the Southern accent, the French accent, ebonics, and the Cockney accent. Seriously, what the fuck are those people thinking?

January 22, 2008 3:22 AM



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