"Mr Q. Z. Diablo" wrote in message
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> Donna Evleth wrote:
>
>> > I'm sceptical. Can you hear differences in the accent of Russians
>> > and Bulgarians speaking English? Maybe. But those are different
>> > languages. What you are saying is that you can hear the difference
>> > between people whose language is a specific English dialect. And
>> > then divide it between American and British even though American
>> > and British might be less different in some cases than American and
>> > American or British and British. It's certainly an entertaining
>> > thing to discuss.
>>
>> No, I cannot hear differences in the accents of Russians and Bulgarians
>> because I do not know either of those languages.
>
> I can most definitely hear the differences in the accents of Russians
> and Ukranians speaking English. It is not a big ask. I don't speak
> Russian at all, either.
>
>> It has to be a language I
>> know, and even then it has to be a dialect of that language I am
>> particularly familiar with. American English, preferably without a
>> regional
>> accent such as Southern or Texan, and British English are the only ones I
>> can do this with.
>
> Accents in the English language are incredibly fascinating to me. My
> wife speaks North American English with Canadian Raising (the "aboot"
> thing that South Park makes a great deal of fuss about). I speak
> English with a neutral, middle class Tasmanian accent (which is often
> considered by the grossly uneducated to be an "English accent").
> Desmond speaks English with a Scots accent which is somewhere between
> Glasgow, Edinburgh and nowhere in paritcular, John Rennie sounds a lot
> more Gine Counties than he ought, Andrew (Cerby) is middle class,
> neutral Melbourne, Mr Haley (long since departed the group) speaks in an
> utterly neutral Northern Californian accent and so on and so forth.
>
> I love it all. I love the fact that Australia and most of New Zealand
> has/have non-rhotic accents. I adore the NYC non-rhotic, sneery,
> barking noise. English is one of the few languages that I speak
> fluently (I can claim Japanese as a second but that is shaky at best)
> and I embrace all of its variants. I also pride myself that I can
> usually tell where people come from based on the noise that they make.
>
> I would bet dollars to doughnuts that both you and Earl have pleasantly
> neutral Californian accents.
>
>
'Gine'?
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