Hmm, Manuel. That will be north Americans who can't guess where
you're from :-); most of them, present company excluded of course,
have not travelled enough to be able to recognise the origin of
furriners (yes, I know chaps: that's fighting talk :-)).
Most Brits would be able to, I'll wager. And to prove it, I will
meet you at a ZA get-together and guess exactly where you're from,
without any hints from you :-)
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
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On 16 Jul 2006, at 19:11, Manuel Viet wrote:
> That is untrue. To the contrary (and it's scarce in french), there
> are no
> singularity in that rule, while english is highly irregular
> depending on
> where the considered word comes from. To me, it's like having to learn
> english twice : once I had to get the basics of the vocabulary, and
> then,
> after some years of practice and travels, when I really began to be
> "fluent",
> I had to go through the dictionary a second time to know where the
> accent
> was. I can't pretend to be bilingual, but funnily, when I meet
> native english
> speakers now, they've got a much harder time guessing where I'm
> from. I've
> heard everything from Australia to Scotland along with Canada and
> Wales, but
> when I say 'french' that comes as a big surprise because unlike
> others I do
> take care to accentuate.
>
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