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From: rmt51@cas.org ()
Subject: Re: Accent elimination
Message-ID: <1994Dec18.095402.6778@chemabs.uucp>
Sender: Rick Turkel (rturkel@cas.org)
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
References: <3c71ce$lfi@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca> <PALKOVIC.94Dec13105923@x4u2.desy.de>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 09:54:02 GMT
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In article <PALKOVIC.94Dec13105923@x4u2.desy.de>,
John Palkovic <palkovic@desy.de> wrote:
>>>>>> "cormierf" == cormierf  <cormierf@nbnet.nb.ca> writes:
>
>cormierf> As to what is so bad about ethnic accents, nothing, so long
>cormierf> as the speaker is intelligible to others.
>
>I guess you have never walked into a german shop, asked the store
>clerk something in your accented german, and had several people turn
>their heads and stae at you? Uncomfortable situations like this make
>me wish sometimes that I could speak german without an accent.

I see your point, however I've been in similar situations in Israel
(Hebrew), the former Soviet Union (Russian) and the former Yugoslavia
(Serbocroatian) and been complimented on the fact that I bothered to
learn their language, regardless of my accent.

>Tsch,
>
>-John
>
>--
>palkovic@desy.de  Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Relativity Engineering
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