Re: Hello to you all!
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 11, 2002, 1:55 |
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At 14:05 2002-03-07 -0500, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>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 ...
The combined result of the Swedish school-system's insitence on an outdated
version of RP, with watching subtitled American television and movies, I
would say.
It helps to be able to switch rhoticity on and off at will. I can do that,
but the non-rhotic version of my accent reportedly sounds like an Irishman
trying unsuccessfully to speak RP. Perhaps the Dublin tendency to
pronounce /A/ as [Q] has something to do with it, so that my accent with
only [A] comes across as what a hypercorrecting Dubliner would achieve.
/BP 8^)>
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