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Landed in Zagreb and worked my way down to Dubrovnik. Visited the Plitvice Lakes, Split, a couple of towns on Hvar Island, the Golden Horn beach in Bol on Brać island, then ended in Dubrovnik for the final few days. Stayed 2 weeks in Croatia.
It’s funny how the country flipped on McCain from 2008. All of a sudden, anyone who stood up to Trump or even merely disagreed with him became a darling for the left.
It isn’t that this guy was a war hero and was respected even by his opponents in Washington, it was that he disagreed with Trump.
And funny enough, there are people that were happy he died or were upset he wasn’t “prosecuted for his war crimes” lol. Even Vietnam gave a message of gratitude after he passed.
Social media has given some spineless rejects of society a voice that never had one not even five years ago. I can include myself in that now everyone has an opinion they feel is worth sharing and it’s giving energy to the retards that feel the same way. The way social media mobilized people to do good, it can also corral up the stupid.
So yeah, I’m trying to leave the unnecessary trolling behind but man has politics brought out the nutcases.
Retards got excited at the notion of the Chinese hacking Hillary’s emails yesterday and despite it likely being fake news, that and the fact Sarah Palin wasn’t invited to McCain’s funeral are the biggest news stories right now.
Wow that was a tangent. But the McCain shit is a touchy issue for me since so many people are bobbing on his knob or slamming him based on what political team they’re on.
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No one knows how it started at this point. But how it got out-of-hand is probably due to the sorry lack of funding. Almost 500,000 scientific books, many rare. Pre-Columbian objects, 700 ancient Egyptian objects including mummies, ancient Greek statues, and much more. The building itself used to be a palace. All gone.
How on earth are the Swedish people (or Scandinavian in general?) so good at English? I know they are familiarized with it at an early age, but so was I, and their pronunciation is insanely good. Whenever I meet anyone from Sweden, they seem to sound American before they even learn the vocabulary and grammar well. Being Polish, I'm jealous.
Then I discovered that one of the bands I was listening to recently, and was 100% sure is American (maybe from Boston? Trying to sound a bit Jamaican?).. is 100% Swedish:
I mean, what the fuck? In hindsight, the first guy does sound a bit like Pewdiepie, but otherwise, that's the closest accent to American English I can imagine on a foreigner. Especially on the second dude, starting at the 2:05 mark. There's no way I could tell he's not American.
Then I discovered that one of the bands I was listening to recently, and was 100% sure is American (maybe from Boston? Trying to sound a bit Jamaican?).. is 100% Swedish:
I mean, what the fuck? In hindsight, the first guy does sound a bit like Pewdiepie, but otherwise, that's the closest accent to American English I can imagine on a foreigner. Especially on the second dude, starting at the 2:05 mark. There's no way I could tell he's not American.
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I feel the same about British and Australian actors. I see them in TV shows and movies and they do such great American accents, I am shocked when I find out their country of origin. The Walking Dead is a good example with Rick, Maggie, and Morgan's actors all being British but not letting on to it at all. The all have to sound country/redneck in the show.
Holy shit. I just realized that they are Swedish too. How do they do that? I also started learning as a kid, but when I first came to Canada I made a friend at work who told me his first impression of me was that the way I spoke sometimes made the office think I'm a scary Russian gangster in my spare time. I guess it was a combination of the fact that Polish accent can be strong and just slip in, and the fact that I couldn't unlearn the more straightforward ways of communication.
That said, even though my accent isn't really that strong anymore, it often helps, especially on the phone. I find it much easier to get situations resolved than my girlfriend with her neutral accent, without doing anything.
I think actors have an advantage - they spend a shitload of time on voice & accent classes. That's their basics, and when you think about the major actors, they are often the top 0.01% at their craft. If they couldn't pull pre-practiced lines in a different accent, that would mean they suck at their job.
I spent some time around the acting crowd, many of them took those classes 3 times a week, 3 hours at a time, some of them for years. Then after you get your lines, you have months to perfect them in the target accent. They would find a native speaker and meet up to run the lines, make notes and practice each word they can't nail perfectly.
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