#simon roper
Video
youtube
An Upper-Class Southern British Accent, 1673 - 2023
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
youtube
What Was the Great Vowel Shift?
Another good one from Simon Roper.
6 notes
·
View notes
Video
youtube
I just loved this video from Simon Roper on Crows and Corvids in Early Medieval England.
#crows#corvids#ravens#magpies#birds#more than human#multispecies#English#language#Simon Roper#choughs#jackdaws
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
youtube
0 notes
Text
my favorite part of all this dialect research I did is watching Georgian period pieces with upperclass british gentry and knowing they wouldn't have spoken in RP and might have rather sounded a bit like pirates to my 21st century North American ear.
#linguistics#english language history#english dialects#dialect#regional dialects#simon roper does really great stuff on youtube and y'all gotta follow him there ok
10 notes
·
View notes
Text
if i were not aroace i would either marry a scientist or an artist
#or a linguist but y'all know i have my thing for linguists#i've gone off before#simon roper and all that#tales from diana#i use this term--almost exclusively in my head--a lot: 'aroace crush'#i know some ppl use the word squish for platonic crushes well that's not what that is#and to some extent im sure it's something non-aspecs relate to but whatever this isn't abt them it's about ME#and my non-serious-crush-having ways#you ever just get fascinated by hearing ppl talk? the way they light up? especially when they're knowledgeable and have a lot to share?#the way they can kind of like just. rearrange your way of thinking.#understanding is illuminating. you know. i love it when i have someone turn on a light for me#that's how i feel about scientists. and artists. and linguists.#i'm just a stupid poet#no i'm kidding. i'm actually very smart and knowledgeable and curious and read widely about various academic disciplines.#haha made u think#:P
10 notes
·
View notes
Text
EXCLUSIVE: One year ago we told you that a second season of John le Carré adaptation The Night Manager was quietly being developed under the codename Steelworks.
Now, Deadline can reveal that the BBC and new co-pro partner Amazon have gone big on a supercharged two-season order of the thriller, with Tom Hiddleston returning to lead, Hugh Laurie coming back as EP and with a new director in I Hate Suzie’s Georgi Banks-Davies. A third season has also been greenlit. David Farr returns as writer and Stephen Garrett is showrunner.
The Night Manager Season 2 will begin filming later this year and will pick up with Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine eight years after the explosive finale of Season 1, going beyond the original book, which was written by the celebrated British writer in 1993. Additional plot details are being kept under wraps and there is not yet confirmation as to whether EP Laurie’s Richard Roper, who was last seen in the back of a paddy wagon driven by arms buyers who were not best pleased with him, will return to star. Hiddleston will also EP and will discuss in more depth on tonight’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Produced by The Ink Factory in association with Character 7, Demarest Films and 127 Wall, and in co-production with Spanish partner Nostromo Pictures, The Night Manager Season 2 was sold to Amazon by Fifth Season. The first was co-produced with AMC.
New director Banks-Davies, a BAFTA-nominee who takes over from Susanne Bier, has credits including I Hate Suzie, Garfield and upcoming Netflix series Kaos.
The Night Manager Season 1 was a huge success, watched by millions and winning multiple BAFTAs, Emmys and Golden Globes including best actor for Hiddleston. Also starring Tom Hollander, Olivia Colman and Elizabeth Debicki, it followed Pine – who ran a luxury hotel in Cairo – as he attempted to infiltrate the inner circle of Roper’s crime syndicate after being hired by Foreign Office task force manager Angela Burr.
The first season was commissioned more than 10 years ago and the show has since been remade in India, lapping the UK version by swiftly having a Season 2 greenlit for Disney+ Hotstar in May last year.
Simon Cornwell and Stephen Cornwell, le Carré’s sons who run The Ink Factory, said Season 1 proved “a landmark moment for the golden era of television – uniting on-screen and behind-the-camera talent at the top of their game – and an audience reception which was beyond our wildest imagining.”
They added: “Revisiting the story of Pine also means going beyond the events of John le Carré’s original work: that is a decision we have not taken lightly, but his compelling characters and the vision David has for their next chapter were irresistible.”
Amazon MGM Studios Head of Television Vernon Sanders said: “We are elated to bring additional seasons of The Night Manager to our Prime Video customers. The combination of terrific source material, the wonderful team at The Ink Factory, a great writer in David Farr, an award-winning director in Georgi Banks-Davies, as well as the talented cast truly make the series the full package.”
Hiddleston said: “The first series of The Night Manager was one of the most creatively fulfilling projects I have ever worked on. The depth, range and complexity of Jonathan Pine was, and remains, a thrilling prospect.”
BBC content boss Charlotte Moore added: “After years of fervent speculation I’m incredibly excited to confirm that The Night Manager is returning to the BBC for two more series.”
The Night Manager series two is created and executive produced by Farr, based on the characters created by le Carré. Additional executive producers include Garrett for Character 7, Banks-Davies, Laurie and Hiddleston; Joe Tsai and Arthur Wang for 127 Wall; Stephen and Simon Cornwell, Michele Wolkoff, and Tessa Inkelaar for The Ink Factory; Adrián Guerra for Nostromo Pictures; William D. Johnson for Demarest Films, Nick Cornwell, Susanne Bier, Chris Rice for Fifth Season and Gaynor Holmes for the BBC.
#tom hiddleston#the night manager#seasons 2 and 3#official#jonathan pine#hugh laurie#booked and busy
96 notes
·
View notes
Photo
‘The Night Manager’ Season 2 in Works At Amazon & BBC With Tom Hiddleston Returning
EXCLUSIVE: A second season of smash John le Carré adaptation The Night Manager is in the works at Amazon Prime Video and the BBC, with Tom Hiddleston set to reprise his role as protagonist Jonathan Pine.
Under the codename Steelworks, Deadline understands Season 2 will film later this year in London and South America. Although it is yet to be formally greenlit by Amazon and the BBC, we hear that it is set to receive a two-season order.
David Farr, who wrote the original, is back to write Season 2.
Rumors of a second season have abound almost since the first ended in late 2016, and the second run of The Ink Factory’s adaptation is understood to be set in the present day. Following British arms dealer Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie) being taken away by the Syrians at the end of Season 1, Hiddleston’s Pine is informed he is dead two years later, and he has to face up to a new, even more deadly challenge.
Penned by Farr and directed by Susanne Bier, the first season also counted Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, Elizabeth Debicki and David Harewood amongst an impressive cast roster. Winning two Emmys and three Golden Globes, it followed Pine, the night manager of a luxury Cairo hotel and former British soldier who is recruited by the manager of a Foreign Office taskforce to infiltrate Roper’s inner circle.
The first season was one of the top-rated UK dramas of that year, aired on AMC in the U.S. and spawned a number of subsequent le Carré adaptations from The Ink Factory — which is run by le Carré’s sons Simon and Stephen Cornwell — including Little Drummer Girl starring Florence Pugh.
https://deadline.com/2023/02/the-night-manager-season-two-amazon-bbc-tom-hiddleston-1235269817
344 notes
·
View notes
Text
Happy Birthday John David Hannah born 23rd April 1962 in East Kilbride.
Hannah attended Heathery Knowe Primary School then Claremont High School in East Kilbride and on leaving school was an apprentice electrician for four years. He gave up his work as an electrician after being accepted to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.
After a few years cutting his teeth in TV shows likeThe Bill, Boon and of course Taggart, Hannah finally got his ‘big break’ when he was cast as Matthew in Four Weddings and a Funeral, since then he has made a name for himself on both stage and screen. His most notable roles have been as Quintus Lentulus Batiatus in the American television series Spartacus, Rutger Simon in Damages and Jack Roper in New Street Law, film roles include the two “Mummy” movies, Tam McGraw in The Wee Man and James Hammerton in Sliding Doors. John also helped Edinburgh Zoo celebrate its centenary in 2013 by narrating a BBB documentary on the tourist attraction's history, getting up-close-and-personal with the zoo's furry residents by launching a newly refurbished koala enclosure.
Hannah was in the Slovakian film The Auschwitz Report in 2021, based on a true story it is about two prisoners of the infamous Extermination camp who manage to escape with details about the camp's operation including a label from a canister of the pesticide Zyklon-B.
More up to date he was in an excellent episode ofrthe hit series, post apocalyptic series The Last of Us in 2023. he also appeared in the most recent series of Black Mirror set in Scotland. called Loch Henry about a young couple travel to a sleepy Scottish town to start work on a genteel nature documentary - but find themselves drawn to a juicy local story involving shocking events of the past.
Look out for David in his latest movie, Damaged, which he costarswith Hollywood A-ist actor Samuel L Jackson, this too is filmed in several Scottish locations across the Edinburgh area. We see the Royal Mile, Edinburgh Castle, Calton Hill, the Forth Road Bridge and several other local spots like Bathgate and Livinston in the trailer, Gianni Capldi is also in the film.
He has several other projects on the go, so is not short of work.
21 notes
·
View notes
Text
Pictured: a European wildcat from this Simon Roper video.
There’s my girl Tsarmina! Look at her!! So fuzzy!
youtube
Very good video about rodents and the like living in Medieval England and their categorization in language and culture, I do recommend it ☺️. It was really interesting to listen to and think about in the context of Redwall the whole time 😁
19 notes
·
View notes
Text
All Spells Simon Aumar Casts in DND: Honor Among Thieves Media
Simon was my favorite character in Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves and while an official stat sheet for Simon was released by Wizards of the Coast, I don’t think it really reflects him as a sorcerer. So I complied a list of all the spells Simon casts not just in the movie but in the prequel novel “Road to Neverwinter” as well(which I highly recommended.) SPOILER WARNING FOR HONOR AMONG THIEVES AND ROAD TO NEVERWINTER
Cantrips
Prestidigitation(Official Stat Block and casted in Honor Among Thieves)-Casted in the theater and in the Underdark when Simon lights his finger and creates the smell of fresh cut grass
Dancing Lights(Casted in Prequel Novel “Road to NeverWinter)-Simon casts it in a cave to allow the group to see
Minor Illusion(Official Stat Block and Honor Among Thieves)-Casted in the theater to make himself slightly blurry.
Mage Hand(Official Stat Block and Honor Among Thieves)-Used to pickpocket theatergoers.
1st Level
Magic Missile(Official Stat Block and Road to NeverWinter)-Casted in a cave while fighting a Green Hag
Shield(Honor Among Thieves)
While the spell “Shield” centers it on the cast and only affects the caster, Simon’s official stat block and Honor Among Thieves shows that he can use the shield to protect others. Simon also attempts to cast “Shield” when trying to protect himself from angry theater goers
Detect Good and Evil(Road to Neverwinter)*
Detect Good and Evil is not a Sorcerer Spell but in the novel Simon says “I used a spell to detect the presence of evil.”(Ch 14, pg 104) when investigating a possibly haunted island. It isn’t stated if this is a spell Simon can just cast or if he used a magical item to cast it but Detect Good and Evil seems like the spell Simon is describing. Not trying to be a rules lawyer, just pointing out that this spell isn’t one Sorcerers can cast without the aid of a magic item.
Fog Cloud(Official Stat Block and Honor Among Thieves)-Casted by Simon in a flashback when the party was escaping guards.
Mage Armor(Official Stat Block)
Chaos Bolt(Official Stat Block)
The official Stat block doesn’t lists Chaos Bolt as a spell but rather as an ability Simon can use while fighting
Detect Magic(Road to NeverWinter)-used to detect the entrance of a secret passageway when the group is robbing a treasure room.
2nd Level
Spider Climb(Official Stat Block and Mentioned by Edgin in Honor Among Thieves when trying to encourage Simon)
3rd Level
Counterspell(Honor Among Thieves and Road to NeverWinter)-Casted to stop Sofina's TimeStop and to stop a Dragonborn Wizard's Fireball
Some have pointed out that Simon had to have rolled a Natural 20 to be able to Counterspell Sofina’s TimeStop, as TimeStop is a 9th level spell.
Major Image(Official Stat Block and Honor Among Thieves)-Used to try and fool the guards with an illusion of Edgin playing his lute and singing.
Dispel Magic( Honor Among Thieves and Road to NeverWinter)-Amplified when using the Helmet of Disjunction in the movie and used on a ring that a Green Hag was using to control a Roper in the prequel novel. Also used to dispell an enchantment on a floating pipe organ
Speak with Dead(Official Stat Block and Honor Among Thieves)-Casted by using an enchanted coin Simon got from a cleric. Simon used it in the graveyard to ask the Elk Tribe Corpses questions about the Helmet of Disjunction
4th Level
Stoneskin(Mentioned by Edgin in Honor Among Thieves when trying to encourage Simon)
Control Water(Honor Among Thieves)*-Used to Escape Forge on the ship with all of Forge’s treasure
Control Water is also not a spell Sorcerer's can cast. Part of me thought that Simon was using a wind-base spell to move the water but none of the wind spells Sorcerer’s can cast seem to match what was shown in the movie.
5th Level
Bigby’s Hand(Official Stat Block and Honor Among Thieves)-Used in the fight against Sofina’s own use of Bigby’s Hand
Telekinesis(Honor Among Thieves)-Mentioned by Simon when trying to figure out how to get across in the Underdark.
6th Level
True Seeing(Road to NeverWinter)*-Casted on Edgin when the party is fighting the Green Hag. The Green Hag had gone invisible and when Simon casts the spell on Edgin, Edgin could see the Hag while she was invisible.
While part of me thinks that True Seeing is a bit high leveled for Simon to be able to cast, it's the only spell that seems to match the description given: "Everything was the same as it had been before, but he(Edgin) could see more. Details he hadn’t noticed before, like the dark veins he now saw running through the vines that seeped black liquid, were suddnely clear to him. The tips of the stalacites seemed sharper, more distinct" “He could see the hag too..”(Ch 15, pg 115) and “Holga’s eyes widen, her gaze fixing on the hag. She must have become visible again.”(Ch 15, pg 116) Simon couldn't have casted Darkvision on Edgin, because Edgin wouldn't have been able to see the Hag while she was invisible and See Invisibility can only be casted on one's self not other people(Tho DM can allow it to be casted on others and the author may have decided Simon could cast that spell on Edgin). I also don't think See Invisibility would have made Edgin be able to see better in the dark like mentioned above.
7th Level
Reverse Gravity(Honor Among Thieves)-Used by Simon when trying to escape the angry theater goers
I think when Simon casted this spell, it was a wild magic surge since he was initially trying to cast a shield spell, but I also think Simon is not a high enough level to have access to 7th level spells yet.
There are probably some spells I missed since I can’t remember the final fight in great detail. I’m probably going to update this list when the movie releases on dvd and I have access to watching the movie whenever I want but if anyone remembers anymore spells that Simon casted in the movie, do let me know and I will update this list.
69 notes
·
View notes
Video
youtube
another incredible video by simon roper. if you like linguistics (and anthropology!) please go check out his channel, he’s probably the only youtuber that I watch regularly and with great joy
34 notes
·
View notes
Text
[SECOND SEASON OF THE NIGHT MANAGER IS APPARENTLY HAPPENING!!!]
‘The Night Manager’ Season 2 In Works At Amazon & BBC With Tom Hiddleston Returning | Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: A second season of smash John le Carré adaptation The Night Manager is in the works at Amazon Prime Video and the BBC, with Tom Hiddleston set to reprise his role as protagonist Jonathan Pine.
Under the codename Steelworks, Deadline understands Season 2 will film later this year in London and South America. Although it is yet to be formally greenlit by Amazon and the BBC, we hear that it is set to receive a two-season order.
David Farr, who wrote the original, is back to write Season 2.
EXCLUSIVE: A second season of smash John le Carré adaptation The Night Manager is in the works at Amazon Prime Video and the BBC, with Tom Hiddleston set to reprise his role as protagonist Jonathan Pine.
Under the codename Steelworks, Deadline understands Season 2 will film later this year in London and South America. Although it is yet to be formally greenlit by Amazon and the BBC, we hear that it is set to receive a two-season order.
David Farr, who wrote the original, is back to write Season 2.
Rumors of a second season have abound almost since the first ended in late 2016, and the second run of The Ink Factory’s adaptation is understood to be set in the present day. Following British arms dealer Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie) being taken away by the Syrians at the end of Season 1, Hiddleston’s Pine is informed he is dead two years later, and he has to face up to a new, even more deadly challenge.
Penned by Farr and directed by Susanne Bier, the first season also counted Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, Elizabeth Debicki and David Harewood amongst an impressive cast roster. Winning two Emmys and three Golden Globes, it followed Pine, the night manager of a luxury Cairo hotel and former British soldier who is recruited by the manager of a Foreign Office taskforce to infiltrate Roper’s inner circle.
The first season was one of the top-rated UK dramas of that year, aired on AMC in the U.S. and spawned a number of subsequent le Carré adaptations from The Ink Factory — which is run by le Carré’s sons Simon and Stephen Cornwell — including Little Drummer Girl starring Florence Pugh.
The Hindi adaptation of The Night Manager starring Aditya Roy Kapur as Pine and Anil Kapoor as Roper launched earlier this month on Disney+ Hotstar, and Simon Cornwell recently told Deadline he’s open to a second season for this version.
Fifth Season (formerly Endeavor Content) distributes The Night Manager and has a minority stake in The Ink Factory.
57 notes
·
View notes
Text
So this morning, cs my brain is fried in many ways,
As a companion to the Draculas of New Jersey, have all the Frankensteins of England -
First, on the very first census, of 1841, we have Jacob Frankenstein and his family, living in Liverpool -
There really wasn't much detail on early census records, and whoever's filled this in has done it a slightly odd order (dad, youngest son, mum, oldest daughter, middle son), but we see we have Jacob Frankenstein, who is a merchant, his wife Sarah, and their children Henrietty (age 5), Samuel (age 3) and Nathan (age 1 or possibly 7), and that F in the last column marks them as "born in Foreign Parts".
The house they live in, they seem to share with two other families - an English roper, his wife and four children, and an Irish tailor his wife and their servant. I imagine, if I might, that it may have been one of those tall buildings you get in the town centre occasionally, with a shop below and two or three storeys above - the tailor would have the shop and the floor above, and the one/s above that would be split between Frankenstein and Choppers (the roper)
I'm not certain, cs nothing much is certain on the 1841 census, but I think that must be the case, because there's a 1 for 1 dwelling/building, and then the families have little notch marks separating them (you can just see one above the J in Jacob there).
If we skip forward 20 years, we find them not in Liverpool, but having moved to Islington, London
A little more detail on this record - we find out that Jacob and Sarah are from Hanover, which I gather is now a part of Germany. Henrietty has anglicised her name to Harriet, and that N must be Nathan, which means he was 1 on the 1841 record. We also see Harriet was born in Yorkshire, and Nathan in Liverpool, tho I can find neither record. And that Jacob's merchant-ing is going well enough that they needn't share housing and they actually have a live-in maid!
And, there's another record to show he joined the Freemasons in about 1850, so I imagine he was doing fairly well for himself.
-
There is, at the same time as our Jacob in 1841, another J Frankenstein, but this one is an "agent" - whatever that means 180 years ago - and he lives in Stepney!
He is also "of Foreign Parts" and also in his 30s, but he is instead a lodger, with several other single German-sounding men (you can see Doctor Gotentag above him there), in the house of some laundresses (Sarah Kelly, Elizabeth Pryor, and her daughter Sarah)
I jumped forward 10 years to 1851, and couldn't confirm finding this same Frankenstein, but there are a couple of new ones -
We have Adolphus, a tailor from Breslau who is lodging in Manchester with a Polish hawker and his family
And we have Isaac, a licensed hawker - a seller of things, the type that shout you over, like a marketstall man, tho maybe without a stall - in this case, jewellery - and he lodges in Portsea/Portsmouth, with Kitty Barnard and her daughters.
-
Then, if we jump again to the 1870s, there are a great many more Frankensteins -
We have Jacob, Israel, Simon and Harris Frankenstein, who are all Polish tailors (tho sometimes the record says "Russia Poland"). Israel and Simon live in London, Whitechapel and Spitalfields respectively. Jacob is in Cheetham and Harris is in Manchester. And all their families, too.
Also in Cheetham, we find Reub and his family - I imagine he is Jacob's brother or cousin (he is also listed "Russia Poland") - he is a glazier, and his teenage sons are tailors.
Philip Frankenstein, also in Cheetham and from Poland and so likely another brother or cousin, is a waterproof manufacturer (did macks exist then?).
And Leon, who lives in Rochester, married a Kentish woman called Lydia Jolley (nee Gladdish), and he is a picture frame maker, also Polish - tho he, unlike the rest, is listed under "Poland, British Subject" - either, he lived in England most of his life and was just born in Poland (see, my John Scarth, who always listed himself as "Portugal, British Subject", and was from Orkney), or because he married an Englishwoman, I'm not sure, and he, nor the census man, are not here to quiz.
If I go any later, I imagine there'll be a great deal many more records to trawl through and I don't really want to, so I shan't.
I am mildly disappointed there are no Adam Frankensteins, tho, I did check
#research#genealogy#i should say - tho i don't know much jewish history beyond the last century - that these are most if not all polish jews#(who knows about leon and his wife#if either converted or if she was jewish to start with)#i would say they were fleeing a polish/russian pogrom but i don't know their reasons for moving#i do know that henrietty/harriet is buried in willesden united synagogue cemetery
17 notes
·
View notes
Text
"How people think"-- I mean, what their experience of consciousness is like-- is so fascinating to me. It seems to vary a lot even within groups like "autistic people" or "NTs" & everyone typicalizes their own experience (naturally)! I would be so interested in more non-judgmental, non-humblebraggy discussions of this that also didn't assume differences could be reduced to "are you NT or 'neurodivergent' (almost always implicitly meaning, specifically, 'an autistic person without intellectual disabilities')."
For example, it doesn't surprise me that many people lack internal monologues. I do have one, although it's usually more like an internal dialogue or conversation, but I do enough thinking outside of that to imagine it.
I AM surprised that linguistics youtuber Simon Roper says he has no internal monologue, though, because the thinking I do that isn't verbal-linguistic and doesn't have a strong "I" perspective is typically extremely difficult for me to put into words at all. Often, as I try, I feel the understanding actively slipping away from me or becoming confused as I attempt to phrase it-- it won't work for me in words, or at least not in the English language. But Roper appears to totally lack this problem, & is very articulate on a number of conceptually sophisticated, fairly abstract subjects!
The concept of aphantasia was more surprising for me to encounter. I suppose the best way to explain why is to share the anecdote that growing up, I always felt my imagination was kind of weak because it takes great effort and will for me to actually, in a literal sense, make myself Really See the phantom image of something before me. Most of the time, I can "only" picture things inside my head, I can only sound-picture music in my head/create a simulation of hearing as opposed to literally hearing it.
Later, I would find out that the amount of time other people imagine something and actually see or hear it is basically "none times ever," so my assumptions were pretty off-base there! But yeah, my sensory imagination is strong, except for taste. I also have some degree of synesthesia (primarily audio/music--> color/pattern/shape), which...you know, I live here! In my brain! I don't have direct access to how others perceive the world! A lot of the books, poetry, even cinema I encountered growing up suggests that more people think like I do in these respects than is probably true, which I'm guessing is a combination of people who think like me being somewhat more likely to become poets/novelists/artists/etc., and poets/novelists/artists/etc. who don't think in this way using vivid, unusual dreams/daydreams/sensory imagery for literary effect
12 notes
·
View notes
Last Seen Blogs
