#erik singer

[nerdygaymormon]

[henk-heijmans]

Two itinerant musicians came to play at the Tibetan monastery, 1956 - by Erik Singer, American (?)

[thismustbetheblog]

We need Wired's dialect daddy to break down Anna's accent in Inventing Anna

[schmergo]

Working on my role as Henry Higgins in this upcoming virtual production of Pygmalion and got a notification for the latest YouTube video from Erik Singer, that slightly dreamy dialect coach who makes videos about accents for WIRED, and I’d love to see those two get in a fight.

HIGGINS: THERE ARE 130 DISTINCT VOWEL SOUNDS IN ENGLISH DIALECTS AND MOST OF THEM ARE WRONG

SINGER: (changing accents 18 times in one sentence) So, those are all of the British and North American accents that demonstrate “goose fronting” on words like “blue” and “boot.”

HIGGINS: WHY AREN’T PEOPLE RAISING THEIR CHILDREN TO SPEAK PROPERLY? THERE’S ONLY ONE CORRECT WAY TO PRONOUNCE THINGS!

Singer: (Getting visibly excited and vibrating a little in his seat) Did I tell you about this Northern Cities Vowel Shift that’s currently going on in the Great Lakes area? It’s the largest change in vowel pronunciation observed in English since the Great Vowel Shift in Shakespeare’s day! Meanwhile, deep Southern accents are becoming increasingly rhotic...

HIGGINS: (Hurling pairs of slippers at Singer’s head) YOU CAN SPOT AN IRISHMAN OR A YORKSHIREMAN BY HIS BROGUE. I CAN PLACE ANY MAN WITHIN SIX MILES. WITHIN TWO MILES IN LONDON.

SINGER: (Not noticing anything, engrossed in watching movies and breaking down the accuracy of 146 different movie accents, including Ancient Roman and Klingon.)

HIGGINS: EVERYONE IS WRONG ABOUT ENGLISH EXCEPT ME

SINGER: Isn’t the variety of English-speaking accents fascinating?

[murderous-wolf-daddy]

[starlingshrike]

i need the sassy dialect coach to just do an entire video on robert pattinson accents so i can watch it and just be destroyed instantly

[jupiter-trash]

I still have all the sapiosexual hots for dialect coach/linguist Erik Singer. Such a nerd! So hot!

[esushi]