Re: CHAT: IPA Question
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 30, 2003, 4:09 |
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:00:54PM +1100, Tristan wrote:
[snip]
> >LOL... I did exaggerate the Hokkien-tones part, though. That's more like
> >streetspeak; the educated elite tend to pronounce it closer to British
> >(colonial British, not modern British).
> >
> So what exactly do you mean by colonial British?
English as taught in the school system, which was instituted during the
British colonization.
> India, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were all British
> colonies at one stage or another, but you'd probably be as hard-pressed
> to make any generalisations about their speech than you could about
> their speech and Britain's speech.
[snip]
Yes, but my original point was that the mangled English mixed with local
dialects is not what's taught in the schools, but what happens on the
streets. What's taught in the schools at least somewhat resembles how the
British taught English during the colonial times.
T
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