Re: dialectal diversity in English

On Fri, 9 May 2003 13:08:49 +0200 BP Jonsson <bpj@...> writes:
> At 18:43 7.5.2003 -0400, Robert B Wilson wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> In what sense is Britney Spears accent fake?  It does strike me as
> exaggeratedly
> nasal, however.
>
> Or do you mean just her general fakiness?
yep.

> / B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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