Re: final editing pass

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:36:28 -0600, Dan Goodman
<dsgood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:43b48f1d$0$312$8046368a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in
rec.arts.sf.composition:

[...]

> People don't hear themselves as talking with an accent.

In general. I still notice from time to time that my accent
is not the one that I spoke as a child, though I can no
longer produce my original one. But that was a deliberate
change many years ago, so the circumstances are a bit
unusual.

[...]

Brian
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