Mike Holmans wrote: > My wife's an Okie, but she speaks the US equivalent of RP - the one > used by newsreaders on the main terrestrial TV networks and which is > commonly thought to be used mostly in Ohio and other places just south > of the Great Lakes. If there's such a thing as a standard "American > accent", that's it. It neither sounds dumb nor clever - just American.
The linguistic term for that accent, by the way, is General American. > The problem which a lot of fairly-midstream American accent users face > is that it's the same sort of thing which Brits try and imitate when > they want to suggest a snake-oil salesman. And due to overcorrection, typically do a really bad job of it :-). -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis If I had never met you / Surely I'd be someone else -- Anggun -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
