chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco
writes:

    > That wasn't what I asked.

You asked how they find me, and that's how.

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Miss L. Toe writes:

    > I thought you didn't work ???

I work part-time.

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Miss L. Toe writes:

    > A strong British accent has a similar effect on Americans of the opposite
    > gender (and probably the same gender if so inclined).
    >
    > I have been know at times to overemphasis mine :-)

I'm usually indifferent to British and Australian accents, unless they
really grate upon the ears. I've never found them to be attractive,
although some sound more pleasant than others.

In general I find that I no longer notice a British or Australian accent
after the first few seconds. Sometimes not even then.

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I'm usually indifferent to British and Australian accents, unless they
really grate upon the ears. I've never found them to be attractive,
although some sound more pleasant than others.
In general I find that I no longer notice a British or Australian
accent
after the first few seconds. Sometimes not even then.

We used to have a Scottish secretary, here accent was pure sex!

George

Mxsmanic <[email protected]> wrote:

    > chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco
    > writes:
    >
    > > That wasn't what I asked.
    >
    > You asked how they find me, and that's how.

"Most of my clients and many of my coworkers are American."

is not an answer to that question, no matter how you interpret it.

Try again.

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On 25 May 2005 02:39:12 -0700, [email protected] wrote:

    >Keith wrote:
    >> Half the battle in English seems to be getting students to recognise
    >> and reproduce stress and intonation patterns - unstessed syllables
    >> becoming a short "u" sound. So "vegetable" becomes vej-tu-bl"
    >Pesky forriners keep trying to pronounce different vowels sounds,
    >whereas English sounds more authentic if you replace them all by "uh".
    >And end every sentence with "actually".

I think the "actually" is gradually being replaced by "innit".



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On Wed, 25 May 2005 13:15:22 +0100, Keith Anderson
<[email protected]> wrote:


    >I think the "actually" is gradually being replaced by "innit".

Well it is, innit?

On Wed, 25 May 2005 14:35:30 +0200, nitram <[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Wed, 25 May 2005 13:15:22 +0100, Keith Anderson
    ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >>I think the "actually" is gradually being replaced by "innit".
    >Well it is, innit?

Well, like, er...yeah.



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On Wed, 25 May 2005 11:45:21 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
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    >Padraig Breathnach writes:
    >> Not true. The brain changes. It's called development.
    >The brain does not change. That's a persistent urban legend.

Can you prove it?
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On Wed, 25 May 2005 12:02:10 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco
    >writes:
    >> How do they find you?
    >Most of my clients and many of my coworkers are American.

The cheese is sliding...
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On 25 May 2005 04:32:45 -0700, "george" <[email protected]> wrote:

    >We used to have a Scottish secretary, here accent was pure sex!

You must be having a different type of sex than me.
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On Wed, 25 May 2005 11:46:39 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
wrote:

    > A lot
    >of ESL courses from the UK waste a tremendous amount of time on pitch
    >intonation and such, requiring students to distinguish between "neutral"
    >and "polite" intonations even when the examples given are valid only in
    >certain parts of the UK and nowhere else in the world.

Which courses are they?

Can you give some examples of the parts of the UK where these specific
intonation patterns are valid?



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On Wed, 25 May 2005 13:48:41 GMT, Deep Foiled Malls
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

    >On Wed, 25 May 2005 12:02:10 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
    >wrote:
    >>chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco
    >>writes:
    >>> How do they find you?
    >>Most of my clients and many of my coworkers are American.
    >The cheese is sliding...

Over-ripe Camembert?




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    > On 25 May 2005 04:32:45 -0700, "george" <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >We used to have a Scottish secretary, here accent was pure sex!
    > You must be having a different type of sex than me.

Never heard of phone sex ?

Mxsmanic wrote:
    > nitram writes:
    >
    >
    >>I've worked with many educated French. I can't think of a single one
    >>where it wasn't obvious that person was French as soon as the person
    >>started to speak.
    >
    >
    > As I've said, I work with several such people every day. I had to ask
    > them what their native language was, since I couldn't hear any accent.
    >
    >
    >>I can think of several Dutch, who sound and speak
    >>like native English speakers
    >
    >
    > That's good, since Dutch itself is very unpleasant to the ear, IMO.

I agree (OMG, the sky is falling).
But I find Flemish quite charming.