LL-L "Language perception" 2004.01.10 (04) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Language perception"

> From: Críostóir Ó Ciardha <paada_please at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: LL-L "Language perception" 2004.01.09 (01) [E]
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> I saw this. Sadly, for anyone who has grown up in any part of the UK, it
> will not come as a surprise. If you grow up outside of the tiny BBC
> English-accented minority, you are humiliated each and every day by some
> chauvinist demanding you "speak properly". Soon enough children learn
> self-censorship and a shame of their variant. Only a handful of people in
> every hundred would even acknowledge there was anything wrong in this
> (despite most people finding a RP accent 'posh' and irritating).

Well, that's a million miles from my experience of living in various parts
of the UK.

I don't think I've ever had my Scottish accent criticised. I certainly don't
remember ever being "humiliated". What would that involve? Being wheeled
naked through the streets in a cage?

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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