Re: final editing pass

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:25:14 +0000, usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Catja Pafort) wrote:

>Dan Goodman wrote:
>
>> People don't hear themselves as talking with an accent.
>
>They don't?
>
>I do, from time to time, because I have the habit of temporarily soaking
>up accents from people I'm exposed to, and sometimes from locations, or
>situations.
>
>There are things, in other words, I say with a Welsh accent, but if I
>told you of my travels in Australia, I'd speak slightly differently, and
>if I'd just been watching an American film, I might have a different
>accent still.
>
I do that, too. I was speaking a definite British accent when I was in
England - not perfectly British as I'm not, as it were, but definitely
the more clipped ENglish variety as she is spoke in the Scept'rd
Isles. On the other hand, people tell me that I now speak with a
definite American over-accent, after living here for more than five
years now - so gawd alone knows WHAT I sound like to someone I meet
for the first time and who gets to hear me "blind" as it were, not
knowing my polyglottal background...

A.
.

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