LL-L "Language varieties" 2004.08.20 (06) [E]

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From: Bill Wigham <redbilly2 at earthlink.net>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2004.08.20 (04) [E]

In response to Grietje's message (below?) I should like to suggest that we
all tend to copy the speech of those we admire, our parents for instance.
We not only pick up on the vocabulary but the subtle intonations, &ca.
Wasn't there a Spanish King who lisped which had an effect on the way all
proper Spaniards spoke.  My Uncle Tom Roberts was a very proper Victorian
gentleman who was a Welsh naval engineer and spoke a marvelously precise
English.  I tried to roll my "R"s as he did but being just a kid I had to
wait for my brain to develop before being successful.  Likewise my father
who was raised in what might be called a Frontier town in Minnesota spoke an
un accented sort of English (his mom was a school teacher and his Father a
Pastor).  My mother was a second generation American with English ancestry
going back, I think, to Hengist and Horsa.  She spoke something Midlands
with a Rhode Eylandt Yankee twang.  Dad drew me aside one day and in a
confidential tone said, "Billy,
don't talk like your mother, talk like me>"  That was, for me, a recognition
of my being a male and allied with My father.  We never told Ma about the
conspiracy.

cheers,
Bill

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