Oh I am well aware re: fantasy. And re: lots of Scottish people! I think Tennant's real accent is AWESOME. But I also really like Amy Pond's accent. Not a Scottish Doctor like Tennant had hoped for but at least a Scottish companion? And one who doesn't live in London! A bunch of my British friends and I were talking about the improbability of Rose, Martha, and Donna all being, not just from London, but from south/west London. One of them even suggested that this would probably be joked at by the show's writers at some point -- and that it would be quite possible (and amusing) to retcon in something that explained the TARDIS's strange predilection for south/west London locales.
I used to be more like you with the accent thing but I find myself more and more interested in being able to pick out the accents of others than being able to mimic them myself. (Possibly because I'm not very good at the mimicry.) What I do like mimicking is word usage - so although my British accent is acceptable at best (and laughable at worst), people will believe I'm from here if I want them to because I've picked up the phrasing and speech patterns. I think I am more proud of that than of the accent. (Again, probably because I am not very good at the accent.)
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Date: 2010-04-11 08:29 pm (UTC)I used to be more like you with the accent thing but I find myself more and more interested in being able to pick out the accents of others than being able to mimic them myself. (Possibly because I'm not very good at the mimicry.) What I do like mimicking is word usage - so although my British accent is acceptable at best (and laughable at worst), people will believe I'm from here if I want them to because I've picked up the phrasing and speech patterns. I think I am more proud of that than of the accent. (Again, probably because I am not very good at the accent.)