11 Mar
2000
11 Mar
'00
4:01 a.m.
I use dialect in some of my writing, but there are
certainly purposes and
occasions where it is inappropriate. In those, I would use standard
English. Here in New England we speak differently, although the
dialect is not as extreme as BEV, an is mostly pronunciational. Notice
how media insists on a standard pronunciation, that's why all our local
tv new readers sound like foreigners. It's really amusing to hear them
try to say Quonnochontaug for the first time.
Same her in Germany, but considering the practice in (German) Swiss TV,
where interviews are DOUBBED or SUBTITELED in Standard German, we are
still on the good side. They realy sub title them ... it's always a
strange thing - hearing a person speaking German (Well, Schwitzerduetsch)
and tead German subtitles ... Belive it or not, they are not just adding
them when guy's from the behind the forest are interviewed, but always.
That's Strange!
H.
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