[ SECRET POST #3235 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3235 ⌋

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[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/2BLzdJf.png

[(Anonymous)]

Some Canadian accents are pretty strong and they often get confused for the upper Minnesotan/North Dakotan accent. But the Minnesota/North Dakota accent is basically just Norwegian consonants/vowels. Really rounded sounds.

[(Anonymous)]

That's not even quite how people in Fargo talk! Also, it's not a true story.

[(Anonymous)]

Veering slightly OT, but that "this is a true story ... the rest has been told exactly as it occurred" text REALLY ANNOYS me. As did the arguments that the 'true story' disclaimer was part of the narrative.

Too many people already have a hard time figuring out that 'movie' does not always = 'reality' without having to figure out if the "this is a true story" at the beginning is real, or if the "work of fiction, any resemblance to living or dead is a coincidence" disclaimer at the end is true.

Basically, I am annoyed by truth labels that are actually NOT true.

[elaminator]

"this is a true story ... the rest has been told exactly as it occurred" text REALLY ANNOYS me

It bothered me more in the beginning, but I still don't get why it 'needs' to be there.

Doesn't ruin the show for me, but IA, I would prefer it wasn't there.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a big exaggerated but older people, and really rural people, basically do talk exactly like that. And even young people definitely have the accent. I never noticed it until I lived abroad for a year and moved back to Fargo. It's really obvious...

Off topic, but I lived in London for a year. A receptionist there last spring, after hearing me talk for like all of fifteen seconds, asked if I was from Fargo. :( I didn't even think I had an accent back then lol. it's all thanks to that damn TV show I guess haha

What about the text at the beginning?

[(Anonymous)]

THIS IS A TRUE STORY. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987.

I mean, yeah, we know it's not a true story now, but there was no reason then not to believe it was set in Minnesota.

Re: What about the text at the beginning?

[(Anonymous)]

Minnesota... Manitoba... whatever.

Re: What about the text at the beginning?

[(Anonymous)]

also Fargo is not even in Minnesota

Re: What about the text at the beginning?

[(Anonymous)]

True, but the movie mostly takes place in Minnesota!

[(Anonymous)]

some people from Minnesota do talk like they did in Fargo, also, a LOT of Canadians don't say "aboot" or put "eh" at the end of a lot of their sentences, it really depends on what part of Canada they're from. After all, Canada is a big country. New Yorkers don't talk like Texans.

[kryss_labryn]

Non-Canadians seem to tend to think that all Canadians sound like Newfies. And of course we don't (despite Rick Mercer, who is in Toronto but is still a Newfie himself). And heck, as I found out on a trip there last year (and much to my disappointment), even Newfies don't sound much like Newfies anymore. :(

Still, having lived in the Maritimes for a couple years now, my own accent has a richer flavour to it than it used to. It used to just be a mix of Canadian, British, German, and South Carolinan; gods know what I sound like now with Maritimer mixed in there too ha ha.

But not Newfie! Not just Newfie! :D