anyone dislike classical stretch or essentrics?

[Eibhinn]

Originally Posted by moonbeam31

What is it then?

Short answer = it's the accent of an Anglophone Montrealer

Long answer = I think we Anglo-Canadians who live or grew up in bilingual places (like Montreal) where we regularly hear both French and English - especially if we regularly speak both - can get a bit of a vaguely, almost imperceptibly French twinge to our accents. This isn't noticeable to most Canadians, who are used to regularly hearing both French and Anglo people speaking English on TV/in real life, but I have had Americans and Europeans point it out occasionally. Especially when I'm drinking, my accent gets really weird because both the French and the Atlantic Canadian thing both ramp up and combine into a fairly odd accent (I was born and raised in Fredericton, New Brunswick as a working class anglophone who attended French immersion in school). Dead sober I can generally speak fairly normally.

[JackieB]

Originally Posted by Debbie S.

I did season 8. It might have been 806.

It isn't 806. She talks about the "tragedy of the world today is young people falling apart" in that episode.

I know a lot of people that she and Sahra train lift weights. I know Miranda has made a comment about not needing weights and using your own bodyweight. I would have to go back and look to find that episode.

Honestly, TA says just as outrageous things. I wish I could do TA...but alas her program irritates my injuries.

I love Miranda and Sahra and find that I can work very hard with their programs. We are so lucky that there is so much variety out there to experiment with. When I first started exercising at home, it was Firm Volume 1 and 2.

Jackie

[Sophie]

Originally Posted by Eibhinn

Especially when I'm drinking, my accent gets really weird because both the French and the Atlantic Canadian thing both ramp up and combine into a fairly odd accent

I have had drinks with you peeps! Francophones from New Brunswick. But let's be honest, everyone kind of has an accent after a few

[Debbie S.]

Originally Posted by JackieB

It isn't 806. She talks about the "tragedy of the world today is young people falling apart" in that episode.

I know a lot of people that she and Sahra train lift weights. I know Miranda has made a comment about not needing weights and using your own bodyweight. I would have to go back and look to find that episode.

Honestly, TA says just as outrageous things. I wish I could do TA...but alas her program irritates my injuries.

I love Miranda and Sahra and find that I can work very hard with their programs. We are so lucky that there is so much variety out there to experiment with. When I first started exercising at home, it was Firm Volume 1 and 2.

Jackie

There's literally thousands of post here on VF that points this out.

The bottom line is that we both have found something that helps us for therapeutic purposes, and that's a good thing.

[JackieB]

Originally Posted by Debbie S.

There's literally thousands of post here on VF that points this out.

The bottom line is that we both have found something that helps us for therapeutic purposes, and that's a good thing.

Yep.

And I agree.

Jackie

[fuzzie]

Originally Posted by Sophie

I have had drinks with you peeps! Francophones from New Brunswick. But let's be honest, everyone kind of has an accent after a few

See, my French accent just disappears when I drink and my English magically becomes flawless

[marya]

Originally Posted by fuzzie

See, my French accent just disappears when I drink and my English magically becomes flawless

LOL, Fuzzie! I grew up in Lake Superior country, and when I moved to the West Coast, everyone thought I was Canadian from my "accent". Then I visited British Columbia, where even Canadians thought I was Canadian.

I have to admit, I don't even hear an accent on Miranda!

[Gancho Girl]

Originally Posted by sheepla

Oh gosh, I have such a like (never love) hate relationship with CS. She's a chatterbox and her accent gets on my nerves. But more than that, it's her awful, awful cuing. Many times I'm doing a move where I can't see the screen due to the nature of the move and then I think, "wow, we've been doing this a long time" and I twist my head around in an unnatural position to see the screen and she's either moved on to the other side or to an entirely different move and never told us! Truly truly drives me nutty.

This!!!!!

And why did no one say any of this when Kate (sorry, I've forgotten Kate's VF name - she's a fellow New Zealander) and I decided to buy a series of CS each during the last sale??? Instead all we found were raves.

And then when we both tried it (Season 8 for me, Season 9 for Kate), we were irritated with the poor cueing, excess chatter and uneven sides. And that most episodes seem to be very very similar. What the????

Essentrics is my happier place.

[moonbeam31]

Originally Posted by Eibhinn

Short answer = it's the accent of an Anglophone Montrealer

Long answer = I think we Anglo-Canadians who live or grew up in bilingual places (like Montreal) where we regularly hear both French and English - especially if we regularly speak both - can get a bit of a vaguely, almost imperceptibly French twinge to our accents. This isn't noticeable to most Canadians, who are used to regularly hearing both French and Anglo people speaking English on TV/in real life, but I have had Americans and Europeans point it out occasionally. Especially when I'm drinking, my accent gets really weird because both the French and the Atlantic Canadian thing both ramp up and combine into a fairly odd accent (I was born and raised in Fredericton, New Brunswick as a working class anglophone who attended French immersion in school). Dead sober I can generally speak fairly normally.

Thanks for the explanation! I am intrigued with accents in general. There was a test online that my son showed me and it pinpointed us to our exact area in Arizona! I will have to see what the link to that is. See, I was not so far off by saying it was a "French-Canadian" accent, was I? Don't worry I start to sound like Drew Barrymore or some other Californian when I drink! ha ha

[Sophie]

Originally Posted by moonbeam31

T See, I was not so far off by saying it was a "French-Canadian" accent, was I?

You decide

The Dufour-Lapointe sisters

and to stay on topic, Alexandre Despatie (featured in one of Miranda's DVDs)