Can Watching DS Improve Someone's Vocabulary?

[Nelson Collins]

Perhaps not vocabulary, but right now watching the Beginning sets, I am rather charmed at the attempts on the part of some of the locals at Down East speak ("Ay-yap")   Although, after Bill and Matthew are no longer around, it seems we don't hear it anymore....

[Willie Loomis]

sorry, i also learned to say "Perhaps." instead of "Maybe."    that's my favorite and i can't believe i forgot about it.

[JoeNathan]

As someone who minored in English Literature in college, I have to say I love this article:

Apparently this columnist, who is a professor at Mississippi State University, is a big fan of Dark Shadows.  Just last week he had another reference in his column to DS, mentioning the fact that being a daytime gothic soap opera DS was sui generis.

[MsCriseyde]

I'm working my way through the series at a snail's pace, and I was just watching Ep. 619 in which Julia confronts Nicholas. I neglected to watch the credits to find out who the writer was that day, but Julia said something that struck me as very non-DS diction. She announces that she must have a "showdown" with Nicholas. I felt like I was watching the run-up to a Wrestlemania event. 

[retzev]

Julia said something that struck me as very non-DS diction. She announces that she must have a "showdown" with Nicholas.

That sounds like DS diction all the way The give-away word is "must." There must have been a "must" quota that every writer must have had to meet in every episode they wrote.