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From: dennis@cadkey.com (Dennis Paul Himes)
Subject: Re: Dutch and English accents
Message-ID: <1995Jun27.174642.7755@cadkey.com>
Organization: Cadkey, Inc.
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 17:46:42 GMT
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In article <rte-2606951751020001@mac-118.lz.att.com> rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards) writes:
>In article <3sk041$7n1@gordon.enea.se>, sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
>wrote:
>> To go back to spoken language, I would like to add there is a great
>> difference between Americans (as if you didn't know). I played a live 
>> disc with Frank Zappa, and his stage chat was very well-articulated.
>> (Although he was in Europe, and may consciously have adopted his
>> speech thereafter.) On the other hand, listening to Jimmy Carter,
>> was like listening to a herd of sheep.
>
>Zappa's speech is representative of Educated Americans from the north and west.
>Carter's is regional.

     Not quite.  Jimmy Carter consciously modified his accent when he
decided to run for president.  He sounds like a Southerner who has been
living in the North for a while.  If you ever heard his brother or wife talk
the difference would be clear (at least to an American).

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                Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@cadkey.com
 
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