Re: Long vs. short vowels in English

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:40:46 GMT

Mxsmanic wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels writes:
>
> > How often is this the assertion of the crackpot!
>
> French people spend a decade or more studying English under the guidance
> of highly credentialed teachers with training in linguistics. After
> that period elapses, they still cannot speak English, so they pay
> language schools with less credentialed but more pragmatic teachers to
> teach them what the highly-credentialed teachers couldn't manage,
> namely, how to produce and understand spokehn English.
>
> This is pretty incontrovertible evidence in support of my assertions.

Yet you claim they're not interested in surmounting a "foreign accent."

Perhaps you're self-deluded? 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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