Re: USAGE: English, Masculine, Feminine
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 15, 2004, 20:20 |
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:53:13 -0400, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
> I wonder if the English are as tone deaf to differences in American
> accents as we are to British accents?
Personally, yes. Before coming to the US, I could tell New York from
Boston from Southern, and that's about it. Everything else was just
American. Actually I sometimes mistook Boston for British, so that might
be some guide to how lousy my accent skills are.
After living in North Carolina for nearly four years, I can now
distinguish several kinds of NC accent, and I can tell some of the
Southern states apart -- Louisiana, Texas, Georgia, NC. I haven't yet
mastered the NC/VA or NC/SC distinctions, which I guess I'll pick up with
time.
Paul