... I figured out why I don't like Claire using "Soldier" as her term of endearment for Jamie. I don't like the way Claire/Cait says it in her accent. I like her accent otherwise overall; it's just this word. It's something about the way she swallows the "d" sound.
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"How do you know this?"
"That's what I do... I drink, and I know things."
Can't recall if you've mentioned your nationality, FnkyChkn34, but where I live, the PNW, we pretty much say 'soldjer' and the d is only very faintly heard. I've never thought of Claire saying the word soldier oddly. I'll have to listen to her again.
How would her pronunciation be better or more acceptable? I love hearing the differences between American English and English from various parts of the UK. I keep wondering why we pronounce words so differently-urinal, privacy, again, hurricane, advertisement, premature, lieutenant, schedule, leisure, scone, the list goes on.
Right, the d is like a "j" sound. That's how I (an American) and Jamie/Sam pronounce it too. But Claire/Cait has no "j" sound at all. I think that's what bothers me, and it wouldn't bother me if that's how all people on the show pronounced it too; but with Jamie/Sam pronouncing it how I'm used to hearing it, I think that's why I don't like it.
Like I said - petty and unimportant, but I just realized it so I figured I'd see if anyone agreed. I know other people have mentioned that they don't like her calling him that either.
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"How do you know this?"
"That's what I do... I drink, and I know things."
I don't mind her saying it but I've also found the pronounciation odd, especially since she didn't pronounce it this way the two (?) times she called him so in S1. I wonder if a dialect coach advised her in this instance.
GRR...ARGH!
I'll have to go back and listen. In UK: "sole-jer"
shareIn UK: "sole-jer"
I was watching one of the deleted scenes from the second season on Youtube today, and you do sort of hear the 'd' when Cait says it.
shareYes, it sounds more like "sold-ier", although in S1 she was pronouncing it as "sole-jer".
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