Quick response to today's F!S
Jun. 12th, 2009 02:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
perpetual_motionSomeone posted today about how Checkov's accent in Trek has always been a sticking point. Because Chekov can always pronounce his first name but has trouble saying "victor" and other words beginning with 'v'.
For most of my childhood, I could pronounce the letter 'r' correctly as long as it was at the beginning of a word. However, I couldn't pronounce the 'r' if there was a vowel in front of it. It came out as a flat 'a' sound similar to the stereotypical Boston or Brooklyn accent. People who talk to me now probably have no idea that I had a speech impediment [and a pretty bad one] back in the day. Couple of years of speech therapy helped clear it up, and the rest of its faded over time.
My point is this: There's a difference between hitting the 'v' in "Pavel" and hitting the 'v' in "victor". Placement is everything, and while I can't speak to how a Russian accent with English words actually sounds, it makes sense that someone could pronounce their own name due to the placement of the trouble letter [I could always hit my middle name no problem] and screw up the letter when it's in a different place in another word.
Disagree with me if you've got more knowledge of linguistics or Russian accents.
[Kate, did not, in fact, make me do it. I just haven't whipped out this icon in awhile.]
For most of my childhood, I could pronounce the letter 'r' correctly as long as it was at the beginning of a word. However, I couldn't pronounce the 'r' if there was a vowel in front of it. It came out as a flat 'a' sound similar to the stereotypical Boston or Brooklyn accent. People who talk to me now probably have no idea that I had a speech impediment [and a pretty bad one] back in the day. Couple of years of speech therapy helped clear it up, and the rest of its faded over time.
My point is this: There's a difference between hitting the 'v' in "Pavel" and hitting the 'v' in "victor". Placement is everything, and while I can't speak to how a Russian accent with English words actually sounds, it makes sense that someone could pronounce their own name due to the placement of the trouble letter [I could always hit my middle name no problem] and screw up the letter when it's in a different place in another word.
Disagree with me if you've got more knowledge of linguistics or Russian accents.
[Kate, did not, in fact, make me do it. I just haven't whipped out this icon in awhile.]
