On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:25:03 +0100, Earl Evleth
wrote:
>On 20/12/08 10:48, in article 494CBF67.B4186906@yahoo.co.uk, "Bill Bonde {
>No matter what happens, it's caused by global warming )"
> wrote:
>
>>> writing. I can always hear it in other people. In fact, it is French
>>> people who have expressed surprise after I have told them I was American,
>>> not British. "But your accent sounded British to me," they have then
>>> remarked.
>>>
>> I'm sceptical.
>
>But you don't really know!
>
>The accent in French of a person from England or the US is different.
>French accents themselves differ nationally and one can detect
>the French of a young person from the Parisian banlieue compared
>to those from Paris.
>
>And then there is verlan
>
>Now what does the word "garette-ci" mean to you?
>
>It could be English or French or both.
>
Ask desi about his "Arab accented" French. Please don't tell me
different since I was told this by someone whose mother tongue is
French.
A Jew deconstructing desmond coughlan
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