[QUOTE=Struan]
Thanks for posting that Ferret Herder. It’s good to see he is doing well, because at one point he was really caning it - even by Scottish standards.
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I thought that one might be especially poignant, so I wanted to point it out even though another link for his work was already posted.
Is that an “average” Glaswegian accent? I saw an episode of the show “How Clean Is Your House” where they helped a Glaswegian man tidy up and to the best of my recollection, his accent didn’t sound all that different from Ferguson’s, though a bit more “thick.” It’s been a while, though, so I could be misremembering.
What if Scotty were a Redneck?
*Welll, SHEEEEE-IT, Cappy. You done blown the flux capacitor like I said you would. Now’s I can fix it. Alls I need is some duct tape, wire, tobacco, a potatoh, and a case of Coor’s. Maybe two cases. *
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Yeah, we had to wait until Enterprise to get a cracker Engineer.
[QUOTE=John DiFool]
Did Picard (Stewart) ever speak a single line of French during the entire run of the show (movies included)?
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I believe so. In one of the movies (I think), he met up with his brother, who was a farmer in France, and I think they exchanged some French. He also in one episode led a group of children in singing “Frere Jaques”, if you count that.
In addition to what Bayard said above (refering to the episode “Family”), he and his brother Robert sing the French song “Auprès de ma Blonde” in the same episode; later that same season, in the ep “Final Mission,” Picard sings it by himself when he’s lying half-conscious. Seems to be a song/language he reverts to when vulnerable or thinking of his childhood.
[QUOTE=John DiFool]
Did Picard (Stewart) ever speak a single line of French during the entire run of the show (movies included)?
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He muttered the word “Merde” in both “The Last Outpost” and “Elementary, Dear Data.”
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
I’m sure it’s better than Walter Koenig’s Russian accent.
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I worked with two people from Moscow who each had a very similar accent to that of Chekov. Russia’s a big place. Not all Russian accents sound like Boris Badenov or the fat diplomat from “Chess.”
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
[Hijack {but the OP’s been answered}]Was Picard’s English accent/French name and upbringing ever explained?
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I seem to remember an episode in which Data was going on about French and how it was a dead language from Earth. Picard took umbrage and pointed out that for centuries French had been the language of diplomacy. Riker politely suggested to Data to drop it. The implication of the whole scene was that French had died out. Does anyone else remember details of this episode/exchange?
