From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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Subject: | Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once... |
Date: | Fri, 14 Mar 1997 21:54:10 +0100 |
> |With all the American TV shows, movies, and music we get, he thinks we
> |learn British English... <rant> The majority here speaks English with an
> |exaggerated American accent,
>
> GOD! You're telling ME!
>
> I was really surprised by that.
I'm not... Not anymore, anyway.
> All the other european countries (Like france and germany) have distinct
> accents
You mean like Herr Flick of ze Geshtapo? :)
> but when I spoke to people in Holland <duck> last fortnight....
>
> What DOES a Dutch accent sound like???
> I've forgotten....
I think it sounds like someone trying and failing to do an American
accent.
BTW, I guess I'll probably pronounce things the American way too, unless
I'm paying attention to what I'm saying (still practising that Australian
accent, though :)
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