Slash fanfic writers make a pretty good case, so whither you are male or female, the answer to the above is yes. At least for my next example. I don’t care to speculate on the example you are talking about with SWs humanoid aliens. You, E-Sabbath, can have sex with Jean-Luke Picard.
We can extrapolate reason why he speaks with an english accent instead of either
picard or his native french. The explanation that a british actor would have no interest in speaking in a faux french accent has no appeal to me, so I decided that he is speaking french, and that a universal translator he had set up speaks english with an english accent. I could never decide wither he did this because he thought that english sounded cooler, or he was to lazy and smug of a git to learn english, and the default mode on the translator is english accented. Here are some simpler explanations from usenet discussions:
"Or yet another stupid explanation (sp?)…Picard learned English (or
Standard or whatever) from an English person and adapted that accent. Heck
, when I was in Israel I was surprised to hear many Israelies and Arabs
speaking with an English accent. When I asked them about it they told me
that they learned English from watching movies and tv: programs being piped
in from ENGLAND (not America). I found that kind of amusing.
-wendy "
"Here’s my theory: (oh, no, another theory-- run for your lives.)
The european community (maybe the world?) adpots english as its standard
language to communicate with the rest of the world, because of its
predominance in global communication.
So, basically, everyone speaks their own language, plus english.
Then:
Since France is geographically near England (no doubt linked by many tunnels,
high-speed shuttles, etc at this point), the english the French speak is
british english. Hence the british accent.
This also fits into the names of the Picards:
“Louis” in “Family” was Lew-iss, not lou-ie. English pronunciation. But the
Picards, Jean-Luc, Rene, and Robert, are french names. Why? And why is Robert
ro-bair (Except for the one time when Jean-Luc slips and calls him raw-bert,
perhaps as a taunt)–
Simple. Picard’s father was, obviously, a traditionalist. He wanted to keep
all things french. So he pronounced the boys’ names in the french way, and
gave his second son the name Jean-Luc just so there would be no hiding that he
was french.
Make sense? I hope so.
–
Jason Snell / jsn…@ucsd.edu / University of California, San Diego
“The more I think, the less I’ve got to say about these poison years.”
–Bob Mould"
