Re: English notation

Tommie L Powell wrote:

> What English dialect does your teacher speak?
> I ask because I've never heard English spoken like that
> (though I've heard it spoken in numerous ways).
I got my English together from all kinds of different sources over at
least a dozen years.  Many independent native speakers have attested my
speech to sound like accent-free generic American.  What exactly are you
referring to?  Note that the usage of Latin vowels may suggest a wrong
mental image of the pronunciation of my transliteration.

In fact, I find Tom Tadfor Little's accent a bit strange:  "...Eenglish
speekerz. It reeliez..."  Do you really say /i:NlIS/, /ri:laj/?


-- Christian Thalmann

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