Re: Apologetic for accent in English?! (was: Hello to you all!)
| From: | Jonathan Knibb <jonathan_knibb@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 11, 2002, 21:24 |
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BP Jonsson skrev:
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[Animosity] 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.
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Which brings us full circle, as my Swedish tutor had a strong Skåne (like
Skeåne) accent! Perhaps I should have kept quiet in the first place...
Jonathan.
'O dear white children casual as birds,
Playing among the ruined languages...'
W. H. Auden, 'Hymn to St. Cecilia'