Re: dialectal diversity in English

BP Jonsson wrote:
> At 18:43 7.5.2003 -0400, Robert B Wilson wrote:
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>> northeast ohio, fairly "standard".  i can understand scots (not hollywood
>> "scots accent", which sounds as fake as britney spears to me...) better
>> than i can understand some people from west virginia.
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> In what sense is Britney Spears accent fake?  It does strike me as
> exaggeratedly
> nasal, however.
I don't think he was referring to her accent, but her entire public persona.