Singing in a dialect and "Authentic pronunciation"

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:59 PM -0500 10/2/10, Dan Goodman wrote:
>Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>
>>My experience is that, beyond two or three stereotypical pronunciations in
>>each case, most people don't know what another dialect should sound like.
>
>And, from much reading of fiction, I would say most don't know what
>their dialect sounds like to people with other dialects.
>
>Not to mention getting the vocabulary wrong.  See any sf novel by John
>Brunner set in the US.

Possibly set in an alternate US, or an America that didn't break away
from the mother country in time?

LH

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