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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 28 November 2007 - Volume 03
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: "ds" <<a href="mailto:dstokely@infionline.net">dstokely@infionline.net</a>> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: language varieties</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I have to add a little experience I had here. When I was a young lad
(way back in the last century, I know), my father took me south to Georgia where
he was born. We were sitting in the train station and I heard a loud
mouthed black man talking behind me. I looked back and didn't see
him. Again, I heard that same black man speaking and turned around.
A careful search revealed a WHITE MAN speaking black English! I had an
epiphany. The blacks I had heard all my life were speaking with a
southern accent. </div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">David Stokely<br><br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><span></span> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: Language varieties<br><br>Thanks, David.<br><br>I had a similar experience once in an airport when I heard people talk in West Indian English somewhere in my vicinity. When I finally located the speakers I saw two European faces and one East Asian face. Then I thought, "Duh! Of course! Why not?" and I realized that our conditioned mental associations between language sounds and people's looks have to change with all those changes we are now witnessing. Of course this includes "White-talking Blacks" and "Black-talking Whites" in the northern states.
<br><br>Also, I once met an ethnic Russian with a Chinese accent. Turned out she belonged to the small Russian minority of China and had learned English from Chinese teachers at school, which accounts for her having a Chinese accent rather than a Russian one, although her first language was Russian.
<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br><br><br><br></span>
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