Re: Foreign is foreign, right?

"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 12 Jan 2006 02:00:12 -0800, Seán O'Leathlóbhair
> <jwlawler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> <news:1137060012.720048.13030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> in sci.lang:
>
> > On Copenhagen, I will stick to my eI pronunciation since
> > that is what every Dane that I have met uses when he is
> > speaking English. Neither pronunciation is particularly
> > close to the Danish so why do you regard one as somehow
> > better than the other? Rather prescriptivist, isn't it?
>
> WTF?! Where do you see me (or for that matter Peter)
> offering any opinion on the relative merits of the two? The
> question was where the common U.S. pronunciation with [A:]
> came from.

Peter wrote, in <43C5097F.3DF1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
"""
That's just the well-known British tendency to disrespect the source
language, in this case German.
"""

Seán seems to have taken "disrespect" as a negative value judgement.
Could happen, isn't it?

Des
's skin is thicker than water, or something
.