From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
Subject: Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)
> > The problem with my dialect is that I sometimes don't know what is a
> > dialectal feature (because it seems to be *almost* High German, not
> > even concidered a dialect). Especially for vowels, I have noticed
> > that my pronunciation is quite away from the standard. Obviously, I
> > should be more careful when reasoning about Standard German from
> > examinig my own pronunciation.
>
> I've walked into a couple of minefields over the same issue with regard to
> standard Swedish ... I know how you feel!
I still find this sort of thing very amusing. There certainly isn't any
"standard" English!