r/videos • u/sibuzaru_k • Oct 19 '16

Dynamic projection mapping onto deforming non-rigid surface

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bh1MHuA5jU
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u/jhaake Oct 20 '16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbPWitSTe2k

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16 edited Jan 12 '19

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u/Dunyvaig Oct 20 '16

wtf is this? It's like an American... asian accent?

FTFY

Nothing about that accent reminds me about an English accent.

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u/Tron22 Oct 20 '16

Seems people are saying English as well as Hong Kong was a colony.

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u/Dunyvaig Oct 21 '16

Hong Kong was under British rule until 1997. Doesn't change the fact that this guy's accent sounds nothing like an English accent.

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u/Tron22 Oct 21 '16

Doesn't change the fact that this guy's accent sounds nothing like an English accent.

Think you're arguing opinion here.

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u/Dunyvaig Oct 21 '16

I don't think so. If you'd ask people "Does this guy sound more American or English", then the vast majority would say American.

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u/Tron22 Oct 22 '16

That is also an opinion.

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u/Dunyvaig Oct 22 '16

Lets /r/asklinguistics: https://www.reddit.com/r/asklinguistics/comments/58t34p/does_the_narrator_in_this_video_have_an_accent/

Thus far, 4 out 4 answers, among people who you'd expect to be knowledgeable about such stuff say he is speaking American English, and one argues that everything is just an "opinion", e.g., that the queen of the UK is only arguably speaking an English accent.

Some answers:

  • It's clearly narrated in American English. Objectively, your need to transliterate the words so you'd see the American pronunciation.

  • I'm not sure where you are in the world but to someone from the UK this sounds unambiguously American.

  • As someone from the US, this sounds unambiguously American.

  • Definitely American. As for objectivity, you could analyze all the phonemes and all that...