Singing in a dialect and "Authentic pronunciation"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> 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.

Jon for President!

Back at the '72 Summer LSA (remember those days, Ron?), friends who
weren't native speakers of English continually asked me whether a
friend of mine was a native speaker of U.S. English. My friend was
from Minnesota and I didn't notice anything particularly distinctive,
let alone non-native, about her speech. Yet, to those foreigners, she
sounded like a foreigner!

Youneverknow.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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