Re: Apologetic for accent in English?! (was: Hello to you all!)

At 04:01 2002-03-08 -0800, M.E.S. wrote:

>The point I intended on making, perhaps not so
>successfully however, is:  Why should there be any
>such feelings of animosity between UK and US [etc]
>speakers over such trivialities as regional
>dialects/accents?  It's silly, and I wonder if the
>same feelings exist between nations of other
>common/shared languages (eg, French, Spanish,
>Portuguese, etc) on such a seemingly wide-scale.
It does exist between the Scandinavian languages, which are mutually
intelligible at least in writing, but where the man-in-the-street tends to
regard the others as aberrations from his own.  The same applies, in my sad
experience, between dialects/regional pronunciations of Swedish, where
contempt and ridicule towards those speaking differently is all too common.

/BP 8^)>
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