Re: CHAT: This or that that.

Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> quoting me:
> > You know I have my school English, but I notice that when
> > I stay with some friends that I have on Humberside for a
> > few days, my school English is giving way somehow - to a
> > more real English I suppose.
>
> I also tend to pick up whatever pronunciation those around
> me use, and not only in English, which can be kind of
> embarrassing at times, actually.
My feeling is that I cannot exactly go about *educating* those
people. They are English, I am not, thus they are "right", and I am
"wrong", aren't they? The language is their property, to deal with as
they like (and they do), for me it's only a tool. That's the way it is.

My English also is infected strongly by listening to various kinds of
folk music - currently The Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie Bell -
magnificent stuff...

LEF

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