Re: dialectal diversity in English
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 9, 2003, 11:28 |
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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?
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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