Re: World's worst software. What's decent?

From: Charles Edmondson (edmondson_at_ieee.org)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:37:35 -0700

Bob Stephens wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:00:53 -0400, Chuck Harris wrote:
>
>
>>Bob Stephens wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:24:01 -0400, Chuck Harris wrote:
>>
>>>>Television is having a dramatic affect on the English language.
>>>>It is standardizing the US on the Midwestern dialect of US
>>>>English.... and it has done so within my lifetime. When I was
>>>>a kid, we used to travel throughout the US and Canada quite a lot,
>>>>and I used to marvel at the way people in different parts of the
>>>>country talked, but now, they all sound mostly the same.
>>>>
>>>>-Chuck
>>>
>>>
>>>Really? When's the last time y'all traveled down south? Or Minnesohwtah for
>>>that matter.
>>
>>Well, I have been in Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, Michigan, Ohio,
>>Ontario, Wisconsin, Maryland and Virginia so far this year. My mother is
>>from Minnesota. And I have traveled in the South quite extensively over
>>the last couple of years. And some would say that I live in the south.
>>
>>-Chuck
>
>
> Just picking communities from three of those areas that I am familiar with.
> Don't you think it would be pretty easy to distinguish between natives of
> Brooklyn, Minneapolis and Memphis blindfolded?
>
>
> Bob
Memphis might be a little hard to pick out, if the speaker is caucasian.
  One of the lighter southern accents. I know, I was raised there! 8-) 

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