Re: English notation

on 29/06/2001 10:17, Tom Tadfor Little at tom@TELP.COM wrote:

> Tristan wrote:
>
>>> Ie think dhis iz sumwut mor reed'b'l for Eenglish speekerz. It reeliez on
>>
>> I'll be calm. Okay. I think I can manage it. DON"T CONFUSE AMERICAN ENGLISH
>> WITH
>> ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> (etc).
>
> <grins>
>
> Okey dokey.
>
> But, alas, one can't do phonetic writing without choosing *some*
> accent--and, like it or not, American English has become the dominant form
> of the language today.
>
I'm not sure about that.  Many of the foreign professors and students here
speak an English that is not really American but not really British either.
I don't think American or British is the dominant form.



andy.

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