I find the speech patterns and quaint language on Deadwood difficult

[Swede]

to comprehend. Half of what they are saying goes over my head.

[BlueJazz]

1. That's because you are Canadian. Everybody "down here"...

...talks that way.

[Swede]

2. I really have to pay attention when they talk.

I get the gist of what they say,but it's like old English or something.

[Bouncy Ball]

3. It sounds like when I watch Benny Hill.

Half the time I can't understand what he's saying and I KNOW he's speaking English, LOL!

[MADem]

4. I enjoy that show enormously! n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Put the closed captioning on

That's what I do when I encounter a British TV program with heavy accents.

It really works.

[Chomskyite]

6. That's how they make you . . .

. . . watch multiple times. And you have to admit, a lot of present-day hoopleheads don't bother to enunciate very well. If you don't believe this, listen to one speech by that cocksucker in the White House right now.