"Dave" <dave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>, "KatWoman" wrote:
>
>>
>>One time on a job we were shooting with Charlize Theron, we knew she
was
>>from SA.
>>We stayed a week in a remote location no TV or other stuff to do at
night
>>so we were drinking and
>> playing pictionary (a word game) and a word came up for her to do and
she
>>said>> I don't know this word in English
>>very funny, I said they speak English in SA, I thought she was joking
and
>>trying to get an easier word
>>
>>then she said>>> no really I don't, my native language is Afrikaans
>>it was hard to believe because she has such command of her American
>>accents
>>then she demonstrated her language and we all laughed
>>she said she learned it from watching Love Boat re-runs as a child
>>
>>she also said on that trip that she was going to quit modeling and go
for
>>film work
>>jump 10 years
>>and she now has an Academy award to show for learning all that American
>>dialect
>>
>
> Charlize Theron was born and grew up in Benoni on the East Rand; this
> is east of (but part of) Johannesburg, which is the biggest city in
> Africa.
>
> Contrary to what you said about her accent, I read once about a Film
> Director who chose her for a specific roll, simply because he loved
> the Afrikaans accent.
>
> Pictionary - we have a word game called 'scrabble'. More or less the
> same, I assume.
pictionary has no board
you get a word and have to draw the clues till people guess it
sort of like charades
and Charlize may revert to her natural diction when she chooses but in all
appearances on TV in USA and for the entire week we spent she did not have
"an accent" to American ears.
She has dropped her Boer accent in daily life in USA, maybe when she goes
"home" she picks it up again.
Most of her films she has ****trayed Americans.
The way some South Africans speak English almost needs a translator for us
Yanks, as do some of the more colorful UK dialects.
I never realized the Dutch and Brits had a war over SA, I just saw some
youtube clips and then had to read some history. I guess that part of
school
I was asleep or not paying attention
The only thing we ever heard about SA was apartheid.
I hope it all turns out better than Zimbabwe for your nation..........
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