Re: Hello to you all!
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 11, 2002, 11:03 |
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BP Jonson wrote:
>
>At 14:05 2002-03-07 -0500, Andreas Johansson wrote:
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>>At the very least, it ought to be preferable to people like me, whose
>>English is an horrid mix of mainly Rightpondian pronunciation with a quite
>>americanized idiom. Long live the infromation age ...
>
>The combined result of the Swedish school-system's insitence on an outdated
>version of RP, with watching subtitled American television and movies, I
>would say.
Except that I watch little subtitled TV or movies, yes probably. American
lyrics and books presumeably have a much greater effect on my way of
expressing myself than TV/cinema - at least if effect is positively
correlated with exposture.
Andreas
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