Do music examples count? I don't see how they could considering any music that doesn't invoke this trope is like rap or... talking. People keep posting music examples though & it makes no sense.
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Seems to me that many of the example points, especially in the Unintentional Real Life section, are bullshit. This trope is not about consistent difference in accent (as between regions or languages), but about abnormal or jarring speech.
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Yeah, in this case they should be deleted.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Arguably, the trope can be invoked musically even without placing the accent as such wrong. Unfortunately, my best examples would be "Lost Weekend" by Lloyd Cole (before the last verse, the music abruptly stops; instincively you expect it to be faded out over the beginning) and "Roller Disco Dreams" by Maximo Park ("This bed's too tight..." starts on the 'wrong' part of the bar).
Since this rather depends on 'developed taste' about rock music, this troper would prefer better documented examples. ("Symphonie mit dem Paukenschlag", maybe?)
I think this trope should be called "Put The em-PHA-sis On The Wrong sy-LAB-ble".
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That's a redirect. There's no real reason to change the trope name; "accent" is a perfectly good word in this context, and it's shorter.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Wasn't there a Buffy episode where one of the minor characters is telling us a story about a vam-PIE-re?
I don't remember any other details, or I'd look up the episode and add it.
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Yep, it's "Storyteller" from season 7, said by Andrew. Reprised in an Angel episode; I forget which.
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Yep, it's "Storyteller" from season 7, said by Andrew. Reprised in an Angel episode; I forget which.
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How do you tell when it's intentional or unintentional?
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Yeah, I don't know whether Tuvok, and then later Harry Kim, is saying senSORS like that on purpose or not in Star Trek: Voyager.
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For the portion about the differences in stress placement across English dialects, I'm not sure that the example of American "AK-SENT" vs British "AKS-nt" is a great one. After checking through some dictionaries of pronunciation, I think stress placement varies more on whether "accent" is a noun or verb than the region. Regardless, unless I'm missing something, it also seems unclear in what pronunciations it's trying to convey. A better example could be the pair "controversy" and "controversial". Brits sometimes pronounce it "kuhn-TROV-er-see" while in the States we'd only use "kon-truh-VER-see". However both say "controversial" as "kon-truh-VER-shul". It mirrors the accent example set up, but I think it'd be clearer.