Re: Hello to you all!
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 7, 2002, 19:05 |
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Jonathan Knibb wrote:
>BP Jonsson skrev:
> >>>
>What really annoys me is when I meet British people and they get annoyed by
>my Americanoid English accent. It's like I feel obliged to apologize for
>the fact that my grandmother had actually lived in Chicago and that I
>picked up my accent from her!
><<<
>
>Oh dear ... it would be dishonest of me not to admit that I am one such
>Brit, although not usually openly ... but it would be churlish to mention
>it
>after such a sympathetic response from someone I'd indirectly insulted ....
><scratches head>
>
>Perhaps the best thing would be for me to stop getting annoyed by it :)
At the very least, it ought to be preferable to people like me, whose
English is an horrid mix of mainly Rightpondian pronunciation with a quite
americanized idiom. Long live the infromation age ...
Andreas
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