Re: prestige dialects Re: Why is Hindi perceived as being more refined than Punjabi?

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> Seán O'Leathlóbhair wrote:
>
> > > "Speech therapists" don't claim to be teaching their victims any
> > > particular accent; they claim to be "getting rid of" their victims'
> > > accents.
> >
> > So what does a person with no accent sound like? If your "no accent"
> > American comes here then he suddenly will have an accent. Around
> > London, I have no accent but if I travel north then suddenly I do. I
> > acquire an accent somewhere before reaching Birmingham.
>
> Walter Cronkite, Johnny Carson, David Letterman; Dwight D. Eisenhower,
> Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan.
> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx

You appear to have misunderstood my point.

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Seán O'Leathlóbhair

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