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Dear AnnaStrophic: I enjoyed the link, but I got more chuckles than clues to differences in regional speech. After years of conscious effort to pronounce "r" I do pretty well, but when I tried to learn some Irish Gaelic, I could not manage to reproduce the really trilled or rolled whatever the word was for it "r". Man spricht wie der Schnabel gewachsen ist, and sometimes it can be very difficult to change. I remember in the Philippines a doctor who worked in the same lab with me telling me how hard it was for him to say "ship." He simply could not do it even after a lot of inexpert coaching, it still sounded like "sheep". But even though I make a conscious effort to pronounce "r" people ask me if I am from Boston after just a few words, but most of them cannot say what it is that they notice. I have no talent whatsoever for identifying regional accents.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Slanguage AnnaStrophic 03/09/01 09:36 PM Re: Slanguage tsuwm 03/09/01 09:51 PM Re: Slanguage musick 03/09/01 10:33 PM Re: Slanguage wwh 03/09/01 11:03 PM Re: Slanguage Jazzoctopus 03/09/01 11:08 PM Re: Slanguage musick 03/09/01 11:40 PM Re: Slanguage wow 03/10/01 12:20 AM Re: Slanguage Max Quordlepleen 03/10/01 12:41 AM Re: Slanguage wow 03/10/01 01:05 AM Re: Slanguage wwh 03/10/01 01:26 AM Re: Slanguage Max Quordlepleen 03/10/01 01:31 AM Re: Slanguage wwh 03/10/01 12:49 AM Re: Checagou Faldage 03/10/01 11:28 PM Re: Checagou wow 03/11/01 12:16 AM Re: Checagou Faldage 03/11/01 03:41 AM Re: Checagou wwh 03/11/01 03:03 PM Re: Shicago Faldage 03/12/01 12:45 PM Re: Shicago wwh 03/12/01 03:42 PM Re: Shicago musick 03/12/01 06:27 PM Re: Shicago like French Charles Faldage 03/12/01 07:31 PM Re: Slanguage AnnaStrophic 03/11/01 12:37 AM Re: Slanguage wwh 03/11/01 01:17 AM Re: Slanguage Faldage 03/10/01 11:19 PM Re: Slanguage AnnaStrophic 03/11/01 01:31 AM Re: Slanguage - Detroit Sparteye 03/10/01 10:24 PM Re: Slanguage - Detroit wwh 03/10/01 10:34 PM Re: Slanguage - Detroit Sparteye 03/10/01 10:50 PM Re: Slanguage - Detroit wwh 03/11/01 01:23 AM Re: Slanguage Flatlander 03/12/01 12:00 PM Re: Slanguage Bobyoungbalt 03/12/01 07:47 PM
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