Sometimes the accent has to go...

[Paul Frank]

"Remember poor Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle, gnashing and wailing her
way through My Fair Lady as she struggled mightily to rid herself of a
Cockney accent that was holding her back from her chosen field of endeavor?
The same drama is happening daily all over town as performers, certain that
their dialect-rich approach to the English language is working against them
at auditions, undertake the process of stripping their speech patterns of
anything that would label them as being from a particular region or
nation..." More here:

http://www.backstage.com/backstage/features/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_
id=1000946984


Paul
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Paul Frank
English translation
from Chinese: humanities and the social sciences
from German, French, and Spanish: sinology
www.languagejottings.blogspot.com
e-mail: paulfrank at post.harvard.edu