Re: dialectal diversity in English

>Well, quite honestly, they *might* have been putting
>on.  I do that sometimes in my classes.  Wghen a
>student's pronunciation is only marginally
>intelligible (due to whatever reason) I'll act like I
>simply don't understand and force them to repeat their
>utterance.  That way they (hopefully) learn better
>pronunciation.  Also, I know that after years of
Possibly. <shrug> Hard for me to evaluate objectively since that was 18
years and much German ago. What stuck in my mind was that I quickly looked
up the word, changed only the stress, and got an "ah, ja, <word-repeated>"
response.

>exposure to Chinese English in various forms I am very
>tollerant of their typical phonetic diviations, but
>other Americans, etc. with less exposure really WILL
>find their speech difficult to comprehend.  So you
>could have been getting some of the same form your
>teachers. *g*
At my prior job, I'd often found myself the go-between when the Indian
out-source programmers and the American in-house analysts were trying to
discuss bugs.

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