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Re: YAEPT alert! [Re: Not phonetic but ___???]

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, April 19, 2004, 7:36
Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:

> It's interesting to note that even now pop singers > from Great Britian, India, and Australia, while they > SPEAK in their native dialect tend usually to SING in > a distinctly American dialect, and singers of country > western music, regardless of their SPOKEN dialect tend > always to SING in the stylized "country music > dialect".
Didn't the ancient Greeks do something much similar with different dialects prefered for different musical genres? Andreas