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Post by RandallBoggs on Apr 21, 2005 13:47:07 GMT -5
I seem to be at a loss with this but I might as well say something.
Acadiens? Weren't they in Scorpion King?
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Post by pitbulllady on Apr 21, 2005 14:28:16 GMT -5
I didn't see the "Scorpion King", but I know it was supposed to be in the Egyptian desert. "Acadia" was a part of eastern Canada, mainly what is now Nova Scotia and some of Newfoundland, as well as what is now the US state of Maine, and was originally settled by people outcast from France. During the French and Indian Wars, this region was won from France by Great Britain, and the British naturally desired to populate it with people from the British Isle. The British gave the Acadien French settlers a choice-swear allegiance to the King of England, or get the heck out. Most of the Acadiens naturally refused to swear allegiance to Britain, so they were banished in 1752 in what they still call "Le Grande Derangement". Most of the ones that survived ended up in Louisiana, southern Mississippi, parts of Alabama(especially around Mobile), parts of southeastern Texas, and southeastern South Carolina. Most of their decendents today live in Louisiana, where they are known as "Cajuns". The decendents in South Carolina call themselves "GeeChees", after the Ogeechee river between the Hilton Head area and Savannah, GA.
So, no, unless someone who wrote "The Scorpion King" took a LOT of artistic liberties, it must have been some other group in that movie besides the Acadiens.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Apr 21, 2005 14:33:22 GMT -5
*shrugs* Just wanted to add in.... It's a dead zone here right now....
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Post by Beboots on Apr 21, 2005 17:56:59 GMT -5
The British gave the Acadien French settlers a choice-swear allegiance to the King of England, or get the heck out. Most of the Acadiens naturally refused to swear allegiance to Britain, so they were banished in 1752 in what they still call "Le Grande Derangement". "The Great Disturbance"? ; That's a pretty strange name for it, isn't it?
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Post by RandallBoggs on Apr 21, 2005 17:57:58 GMT -5
Geez...did everybody die or something?
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Post by RandallBoggs on Apr 21, 2005 17:58:39 GMT -5
Not so much as The War...
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Post by Beboots on Apr 21, 2005 18:04:20 GMT -5
Not so much as The War... Which war?
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Post by RandallBoggs on Apr 21, 2005 18:09:22 GMT -5
Not just "war". "The War".
Sorry.....I can't talk about that right now heh heh...
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Post by Beboots on Apr 21, 2005 18:24:41 GMT -5
*is thoroughly confused*
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Post by RandallBoggs on Apr 21, 2005 18:35:45 GMT -5
Confused? That's normal heh heh....
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Post by Beboots on Apr 21, 2005 22:31:41 GMT -5
Meh. Anyway, so if you guys could have any accent, which one would you have?
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Post by lizardgirl on Apr 22, 2005 11:13:50 GMT -5
Y'know, it's SO weird, because when I think of an English accent, I think of...well...like, "oh, jolly HO! Would you care for a cup of absolutely SPIFFING tea?" if you see what I mean. But no-one I know sounds like that, and pretty much all of them have a British accent. If I could have any accent, I'd have...erm...well, not American. Although, as you were saying, there's so many different accents in each individual region that I've probably only heard like a tiny part of 'American accents'. But...well...then I guess I'd have to say I'd have Steve's accent, even though, yes, it's American. I just love the way he talks...ahhh... ;D
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Post by pitbulllady on Apr 22, 2005 11:44:25 GMT -5
People from Britain definately have many different accents and dialects, too. Even I can tell the difference between someone from Yorkshire and someone from the upper class in London, for example-almost totally different!
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Post by lizardgirl on Apr 22, 2005 11:51:05 GMT -5
Yeah, it's really weird! I have a more Southern English accent, even though I was born in London. And a friend of mine can do a KILLER Yorkshire accent! ;D
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Post by RandallBoggs on Apr 22, 2005 14:27:24 GMT -5
I'm a mix.... ;D
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