According to KateH <hockersm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
> I was a little surprised when the first French folks I met in France,
spoke
> excellent English complete with an English accent. You *will* have an
> accent........no matter who/where you learn it from. Sooooooo, for
all
> that "Be yourself" is a good motto.........if you learn English you may
as
> well learn it the way you'd like to.
> English spoken by the Irish is ......very beautiful.
> KateH
>
> Of course it's not *just* the accent.......
This is one of the "speak properly!" things that gets on my nerves
slightly... although I'm not sure whether I'm more irritated, amused
or bemused when someone with a thick and barely intelligable London,
Texas or wherever accent claims that they're accentless and have a
right go at me with my barest remnant of a Geordie accent for speaking
"wrong."
Some people seem to have a pathological hatred of accents. I think
it'd be a sad day indeed if everyone sounded the same. I _like_
accents. Well, most of them, apologies in advance to Scouse types.
Chris.
--
Mard: "German prostitutes... bloody hell! Its obviously a part-time job.
During
the day they're lumberjacks or Russian weightlifters. We we're in this
bar, the
door flies off its hinges, and this "thing" walks in dressed in red
fishnets. I
thought it was a phone box at first. But phone boxes are smaller and not
as
wide. It picks up two sailors, one under each arm and waddles off."
Dread: "So 'im run out to de fancy dress shop, innit? An 'im am buying de
sailor's outfit. An 'im go back in de bar, an 'im wait. Innit?"
-- The Macc Lads discuss Hamburg's nightlife.
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