LL-L: "Pronunciation" LOWLANDS-L, 08.SEP.2000 (06) [E]

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From: John M. Tait [jmtait at altavista.net]
Subject: LL-L: "Pronunciation" LOWLANDS-L, 07.SEP.2000 (01) [E]

John Feather wrote:
>
>For the benefit of Lowlanders unfamiliar with the British media, the Daily
>Telegraph is a right-wing broadsheet, but I have no difficulty in imagining a
>news item based on the same facts appearing in the Guardian or
>Independent, which are papers of the centre.

This is precisely what I was saying. Linguistic prejudice is immune from
political correctness, and therefore those of the 'left' - who may imagine
themselves to be impeccably liberal and unprejudiced, but in fact are often
just following by rote those correctnesses which are assumed in their peer
group - are quite as likely to be subject to it as the 'right'.

I quite agree, however, in not finding 'Allo 'Allo offensive. However, as the
three British stereotypes in it - the dim airmen and the linguistically
challenged policeman - are all English...
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>One small point in our favour, the British media commonly use the word
>"Nazi" rather than "German" in referring to events of the Second World War.

Yes, deliberately, but not necessarily when the guard is down. Peter Sellers
once came onto the Parkinson Show dressed as a Nazi; but I heard someone - I'm
not sure if it was Parky himself - say that he had come on 'as a German'.

John M. Tait.

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