--- John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote: > >
> My Russian teacher spent about the first week of my
> elementary Russian
> course teaching us to speak English with a Russian
> accent. The idea
> was to learn to do that so thoroughly that when we
> started to learn
> Russian, we would speak that with a Russian accent
> also (i.e. perfectly).
> I have forgotten the Russian I learned, but my
> Russian-accented English
> is still pretty good.
>
have heard of that system before . . . thoroly approve
! just wish it was done more often ( if only so
english people could improve their crappy
french-accented english when taking the piss out of
our dear neighbours )
> --
> A poetical purist named Cowan [that's me:
> jcowan@reutershealth.com]
> Once put the rest of us dowan. [on xml-dev]
> "Your verse would be sweeter
>
http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> If it only had metre
>
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> And rhymes that didn't force me to frowan."
> [overpacked line!] --Michael Kay