Re: YAEDT? Syntax in dialects of English (was: Of accents & dialects (was: Azurian phonology))
| From: | caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 25, 2008, 16:27 |
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> ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> I've never personally encountered an American accent that was truly
> incomprehensible, but I'd guess that the Appalachian area could have
> one or two.
Nor have I, but I have a friend from Belgium, fluent in Dutch, French
and English, who now lives in the USA. She told me that, for a while,
after she arrived she could not understand the black people here in the
South.
Charlie
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