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Is Ineta getting the Vicki Fowler treatment?
Maybe I was hearing things but for the little that she has said so far (and she is a recurring character), I swear that her accent was more foreign when she started. Now like Vicki her accent is slowly morphing into an English one. It's perhaps not as surprising in a younger kid who will probably acquire the accent of where they're living. But the transition does remind me a little of the way Vicki went from the American accent to a British one within months.
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Maybe I was hearing things but for the little that she has said so far (and she is a recurring character), I swear that her accent was more foreign when she started. Now like Vicki her accent is slowly morphing into an English one. It's perhaps not as surprising in a younger kid who will probably acquire the accent of where they're living. But the transition does remind me a little of the way Vicki went from the American accent to a British one within months.
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I'm pretty sure the actress is foreign, but I don't know. It definitely sounded English to me.
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Vicky's accent change was horrific because it literally happened between episodes with no gradual shift. She went away to look for Somebody (den i think) with an American (sort of) accent and returned about a month later with a British accent. Sharon even commented on it and Vicky said something like "i wanted a change" with a shrug, like it is that easy to just 'decide' on a new accent.
Ineta doesn't seem as grating as we haven't heard her speak as much and she will have been missing with Kids at School for several months now and she might be trying to fit in, especially if she is being bullied. I have a friend who moved to Essex from Scotland when she was 10 and she made a concerted effort to lose her accent so she wouldn't be 'different' and therefore a target for bullying. |
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Vicky's accent change was horrific because it literally happened between episodes with no gradual shift. She went away to look for Somebody (den i think) with an American (sort of) accent and returned about a month later with a British accent. Sharon even commented on it and Vicky said something like "i wanted a change" with a shrug, like it is that easy to just 'decide' on a new accent.
Ineta doesn't seem as grating as we haven't heard her speak as much and she will have been missing with Kids at School for several months now and she might be trying to fit in, especially if she is being bullied. I have a friend who moved to Essex from Scotland when she was 10 and she made a concerted effort to lose her accent so she wouldn't be 'different' and therefore a target for bullying. I went to boarding school hundreds of miles from home when I was 10. My family were decidedly working class, Yorkshire coal merchants and I was surrounded by upper middle class rich kids. I soon learned to adjust my accent to fit in with them. I spoke one way at school and one way at home. Even now, living in London and working in corporate finance, I have an accent for work and one for when I visit my family and friends in Yorkshire. |
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I also thought that she sounds like a Londoner
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I have thought exactly the same thing! I thought where's her accent gone? Vicki's accent change was much worse though, it was atrocious.
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Younger poeple also adjust and take i. New accents quicker.
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I thought the bruise on her arm was because she is being bullied - hence her hiding the accent, to try and fit in?
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I watched an interview with the guy who plays Aleks and the girl who plays Ineta was from Allbania...she could've moved to the UK when she got the role in EastEnders, so her accent might not be as strong as it use to be, but it's still there. I think it's all natural, unlike with Vicki Fowler where she was just one day told to drop the accent.
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I did think it a little strange when Aleks asked her if she wanted fish fingers or shepherds pie for tea and she replied "OI OI COME AND 'AV A LOOK GET YOUR APPLES AND PEARS 'ERE DARLING, OH MY OLD MANS A DUSTMAN"
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I did think it a little strange when Aleks asked her if she wanted fish fingers or shepherds pie for tea and she replied "OI OI COME AND 'AV A LOOK GET YOUR APPLES AND PEARS 'ERE DARLING, OH MY OLD MANS A DUSTMAN"
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Maybe I was hearing things but for the little that she has said so far (and she is a recurring character), I swear that her accent was more foreign when she started. Now like Vicki her accent is slowly morphing into an English one. It's perhaps not as surprising in a younger kid who will probably acquire the accent of where they're living. But the transition does remind me a little of the way Vicki went from the American accent to a British one within months.
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Yeah now that I'm reminded, I remember vividly how cringeworthy Vicki sounded. The actress herself (she was on Pramface more recently) is OK, but now that Vicki is meant to be in Australia they could probably get away with a recast if they want to rebuild some of the Fowlers.
They'd have to find someone with at least an Aussie twang, though a British accent overall. |
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I also thought that she sounds like a Londoner
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Maybe I was hearing things but for the little that she has said so far (and she is a recurring character), I swear that her accent was more foreign when she started. Now like Vicki her accent is slowly morphing into an English one. It's perhaps not as surprising in a younger kid who will probably acquire the accent of where they're living. But the transition does remind me a little of the way Vicki went from the American accent to a British one within months.
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Her first actress for the one episode was very foreign. Since she got recast and became a full time recurring character rather then recurring guest she can speak foreign but with more on an English accent.
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That's definitely not a London accent. More of a Devon one, like Cindy's.
(source: me. I live in Plymouth) |
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I agree. Her accent is definitely changing but it isn't as jarring as the overnight change we saw in Vicky. It wouldn't be unrealistic for her to mimic her peers to try to fit in.
I went to boarding school hundreds of miles from home when I was 10. My family were decidedly working class, Yorkshire coal merchants and I was surrounded by upper middle class rich kids. I soon learned to adjust my accent to fit in with them. I spoke one way at school and one way at home. Even now, living in London and working in corporate finance, I have an accent for work and one for when I visit my family and friends in Yorkshire. But it is not an instant shift with a perfect full accent like we got with Vicki. This debate also going on with corrie presently (should Bethany have an Italian accent) and i've been maintaining that everybody is different - some people will quickly 'adopt' a new accent to 'fit in' - others will have their original so ingrained it doesn't change, especially if the people they are living with keep their original accent. So a kid will have conflicting influences - their peers at School who have the 'new' accent and often their parents at home that have the 'old' one and they could go either way or get an odd mixture of both. |
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By the end of the year Ineta will be doing Cockney rhyming slang and Mick will be offering her a cup of Rosie.
Oh and I found the clip of Scarlett Alice Johnson's first appearance as Vicki. The way she said supper was just excruciating for some reason. With Martin and Rebecca back, I wouldn't be opposed to seeing her return. At least she'd have family on the Square, including Sharon (adoptive sister). |
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Vicki was dreadful because even that American accent never seemed legit then overnight she was suddenly British, it was bizarre.
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Cindy definitely doesn't have a Devonian accent.
(source: me. I live in Plymouth) Plus Cindy has grown up in Devon so it's understandable. |
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More proof of this tonight.
AND her mum is probably on her way to doing Cockney rhyming in six months lol. |
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