Re: Of accents & dialects (was: Azurian phonology)

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Yes, I do dissimilatory code switching.  It throws people off...
>
> What I *meant* was that an RP speaker sounds to me like they  have a
> very strong accent.
Yep - a very strong RP accent. I guess I'd be described as having a more
or less RP accent (tho I'm sure purists detect some 'impurities' in mine  :)

>
>
> On 10/20/08, Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
>>
>>> Thus, from the perspective of an RP speaker, I have a strong American
>>> accent, and vice versa, even when, say, reading something in Formal
>>> Written English.
Exactly!
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Eugene Oh wrote:
 > Gosh, that is so like Singlish!
 > Check out the Wikipedia article on Singlish. Though I bet the -accent- is
 > different in Norfolk from Singapore.
 >
 > Eugene
 >
 > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Michael Poxon <mike@...>
wrote:
 >
 >> That's certainly the case here (Norfolk, East Anglia) where, for
instance,
 >> all verb paradigms are regularised ("He say" for both "he says" and "he
 >> said")

In the colloquial English of West Sussex when i was a lad in the 1940s &
50s, present tense was regularized in that all persons ended in -(e)s,
not just the 3rd singular, e.g. I goes, we goes, they goes etc. ('Twas a
remnant of the old Sussex dialect which was dying out in the west but
IIRC was still to be found in the more rural east of the county)

When I moved to Newport in South Wales in 1968 I found exactly the same
_dialect_ feature. But, oh, the local _accent_ was (and still  is) *SO*
different!!

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