Universal Translator

[Mary Terry]

How many Hollywood movies cast someone with a British accent as the bad guy? There's obviously a cultural perception or stereotype thing going on there.

They often cast Germans as the bad guys.

 

[Judge]

How many Hollywood movies cast someone with a British accent as the bad guy? There's obviously a cultural perception or stereotype thing going on there.

Beats me. I mean....I still get confused learning years later that the bad guy in "The Fugitive" (Lt. Gerard) was a Brit!

Or thinking years later that Barry Morse's English accent was over the top in "Space 1999".

 

[Neia]

They often cast Germans as the bad guys.

Or Russians...

 

[Judge]

All classy villains have to be British.

Mike Myers would likely agree. Yeah baby, yeah! Or not. Wait.....oh never mind!

 

[jsilver256]

NT just operate on a different plane altogether. Someone used the analogy to explain social interactions to me. It's like praising a pet dog. You can use any words you want but it's the tone and body language that dogs are craving. There is a literal missing component to being able to connect to the human experience which allows us to derive the connection from the "tone."

And in a sense, that's comforting because there is no reciprocation to be had here. I don't want pets, I want words. They don't want words, they want pets. We cannot provide the other that.

 

[Au Naturel]

It might be age related, not physically caused by age but simply because we socialise less as we get older and skills and tolerances diminish a bit.

I have noted that the older I get, the more my defenses weaken against anxiety and depression. I'm much more liable to self-judgment and am much more physically and economically vulnerable. More prone to catastrophizing.

Getting old sucks.

 

[Jumpinbare]

That's actually something I noticed, nowadays when I try to speak French, my brain jumps to Italian. I really have to think about what I want to say.
Not that I ever really cared about French. Still hate it to this day.

My Russian teacher used to get upset with me when I would switch unaware from Russian to German in the middle of a sentence.

 

[Jumpinbare]

You can use any words you want but it's the tone and body language that dogs are craving. There is a literal missing component to being able to connect to the human experience which allows us to derive the connection from the "tone."

True to an extent. Dogs can understand actual words as well. My siblings and I had endless fun confusing our dog by mis-matching words and tone. "Walk" and "bath" were our dog's favorite and most feared words, respectively. We would ask him in an excited tone "You want a bath?", or use an angry tone to ask if he wanted to go for a walk. His confusion was quite evident, and he never seemed to see through our teasing.