Singing in a dialect and "Authentic pronunciation"

[Jonathan Lighter]

> Jon for President!

Is that Russia I can see from my house?!  It is!  I think it *is*!!

JL
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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