EPTKellyMILKIES to return to Singapore - Page 20
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jester-
Canada547 Posts
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dogmeatstew
Canada574 Posts
On March 10 2011 05:57 Gentso wrote: You're completely out of whack. Generally, people enjoy British accents. But what's that have to do with anything? Sure people like British accents so maybe not the best example, however my point is that historically English is not "America's language" so the fact that the population of that country expects the rest of the world to form their dialect of English to match perfectly to the developed American *accent* is completely ridiculous. I have a Canadian accent, most people on this site have an American accent, a large portion have any mix of European accents etc. The point here is that its arrogant and self centred to expect other cultures to conform to you way of speaking (especially when its a borrowed language anyway, in a sense) and that basing someone's desirability as a caster on whether you can understand them as a product of how close their speech patterns are to the American dialect is absurd; especially without giving yourself a chance to adjust to hearing the accent and making better sense of it with less effort over time. tl;dr my point is that this thread is full of a bunch of ethnocentric whiners who refuse to adjust to anything that isn't what they already know. | ||
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Eeeegor
Australia809 Posts
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buickskylark
Canada664 Posts
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Sprouter
United States1724 Posts
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naked
United States39 Posts
Why should we suffer through her development? GOM affirmative action program? | ||
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
On March 10 2011 07:03 buickskylark wrote: Anyone know why there's no Asian male casters? Seems kind of strange that it's all white males and the only asian is a girl with a heavy accent from Singapore. Even before Kelly there was only lil.susie. Are you forgetting about SDM? | ||
JWD
United States12607 Posts
On March 10 2011 07:03 buickskylark wrote: Anyone know why there's no Asian male casters? Seems kind of strange that it's all white males and the only asian is a girl with a heavy accent from Singapore. Even before Kelly there was only lil.susie. There are Asian male casters. HDStarcraft comes to mind. Oh and of course, SDM. Yeah and those are just of the major, famous casters I know. | ||
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
On March 10 2011 07:04 JWD wrote: There are Asian male casters. HDStarcraft comes to mind. Oh and of course, SDM. Yeah and those are just of the major, famous casters. Gunrun? | ||
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Greggle
United States1131 Posts
On March 10 2011 07:03 buickskylark wrote: Anyone know why there's no Asian male casters? Seems kind of strange that it's all white males and the only asian is a girl with a heavy accent from Singapore. Even before Kelly there was only lil.susie. They're out there, HD is asian. | ||
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SKtheAnathema
United States885 Posts
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McKTenor13
United States1383 Posts
Good Luck to you Kelly, I only hope for good things for you! | ||
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Niten
United States598 Posts
I wish her well in all her future endeavors and hope to enjoy her casting again. | ||
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kirbynator
Canada503 Posts
On March 10 2011 06:47 Sensator wrote: I liked Kelly, she knew her shit. she knew zerg, and nothing else | ||
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Lonyo
United Kingdom3884 Posts
On March 10 2011 05:37 Chill wrote: Also talks with GOM seem to favour the theory of point #2. Timeline points to: 16th Feb: Kelly announces herself as caster on her twitter 21st Feb: GSL Code A starts and Kelly casts her first game 21st Feb: Moletrap posts a Youtube video saying he is going to Korea on a TRIAL for 2~3 weeks. 24th Feb: Kelly says she's leaving Korea on 17th March. 9th March: Conspiracy theories that Kelly was never on a trial and the whole trial thing is a lie. GOM made it up over the course of 5 days before Kelly had actually casted anything and ensured Moletrap released a carefully worded Youtube video including a time period and the word trial in order to cover up their mistake of inviting Kelly to cast. | ||
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Keitzer
United States2509 Posts
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AimForTheBushes
United States1760 Posts
The OP clearly states that GOM and Kelly knew before the announcement was even made that she would be a caster, that she would be casting for only this season, and then her contract would end. This isn't an issue of "Oh no, we were so awful towards her, and now she got fired because of it". It's an simple issue of GOM giving auditions to other people before making a permanent decision. The entire "haters vs whiteknights" battle was played out over a month ago, and it's frustrating to see this pop up again, especially over something as obvious as this. I think that it was clear that she isn't a "perfect fit" as a GSL caster for english-speaking streams. I can see that (a perfect fit) as the only cause of someone getting insta-hired as a semi-permanent fixture (like Tasteless did back for his first gig at that WCG). So please, let's all drop this pity party act, as this is actually a good thing. Either they'll find someone who is a better fit (which is a win), or they won't, and she'll have proven herself as the best applicant and be hired on in a fair process, then no one will have any ground to stand on if they want to complain about Kelly casting (also a win). | ||
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kedinik
United States352 Posts
Good analysis, good jokes, brought some personality to the table. | ||
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dogmeatstew
Canada574 Posts
On March 10 2011 07:06 SKtheAnathema wrote: it's more that english is obviously her second language. a british or australian person's primary language is english, and is generally a lot easier to understand (or tolerate). has nothing with the person not sounding american or that they should sound like us. they just need to be easy to understand and the voice has to be enjoyable to listen to. i find thick asian accents are not enjoyable to listen to. and i'm viet I'm not trying to say that as harshly as it came off, I was more making a bit of a hyperbolic point. Mostly I just think that accents take time to adjust to and that with the quantity of speaking done in GSL, the now I can understand her just fine though I'll admit to having needed to concentrate more to understand her at first. Hell, last time I visited England I spent a week in Liverpool and couldn't understand half of what was said to me for the first 3 days, but you brain catches on... | ||
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eviltomahawk
United States11133 Posts
Gunrun is awesome. Coming from the C&C community, I had tons of fun with his C&C Generals: Retarded and his Red Alert 3: Red Cocaine mods. Trump and Gretorp are also well known Asians in the SC2 community. | ||
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