sylvie b  +  103549 Sat, 28 May 05 12:26 AM hi everyone i'm sylvie and i'm a little bit new here!! now i cannot find it but i saw someone saying, that english boys like foreign accents of girls, and the most they like french ones!!! you know i think this is so true, i am in london and the boys say, the french accent is so sexy now i want to ask, that is true?? why is that? because you know, i do not think it is sexy, my accent, not at all! :( but now i think that i will not learn to speak english too well, because then the english boys like me always!! bisous bisous sylvie b sylvie b Joined on Wed, May 25 2005 in london to learn english!! Junior Member 55 Accents, Speak English

	Mister Micawber  +  103805 Sun, 29 May 05 11:23 AM Boys like ANY accents, Silvie. I like yours already, and I haven't even heard you. Mister Micawber Joined on Wed, Aug 4 2004 Yokohama Veteran Member 30,769 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.' Accents

	Mister Micawber  +  104059 Mon, 30 May 05 02:47 PM Both options are fine here, I think-- and I used plural because, I suppose, I was thinking of all those girls! I like any accents I hear. I buy any posters I see. Those seem to work satisfactorily. Mister Micawber Accents, Plurals

	sylvie b  +  104065 Mon, 30 May 05 03:12 PM mister micawber, it is so nice, that which you say to me! but i do not understand still, why the boys like the french accent? bisous sylvie b sylvie b Accents

	Mister Micawber  +  104083 Mon, 30 May 05 03:54 PM This use of the m-dash is somewhat a personal idiosyncrasy, I suppose, but not unprecedented. It serves mostly to replace a colon, and I find that it makes a clearer visual relationship between what precedes and what follows it. I may be wrong, but it is my habit. I would not use it in formal writing. Mister Micawber Accents, Colons

	julielai  +  104122 Mon, 30 May 05 07:41 PM Hi Mr. Micawber, I remember reading this in my writing handbook. Does this distinction still exist? Here it is: When do you use dashes? "To join a phrase to the end of a sentence. The phrase might clip on an example, illustration, or summary. Or it might add a surprise, a contradiction, or an exception to the sentence. Like colons, dashes point to ideas. But where colons provide formal introductions, dashes introduce unanticipated guests." Source: The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers julielai Joined on Sun, Oct 24 2004 Senior Member 3,827 Just another blogger (http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/julie-lai) Accents, Colons

	YoungCalifornian  +  104126 Mon, 30 May 05 09:23 PM I think that most young men (or for that matter, most people) find foreign accents exotic. An attractive young woman with an accent is perceived as unique and usually less attainable than the females one is accustomed to. I'm sure it also doesn't hurt that the French have long been associated with romance. Paris is the city of love, right? YoungCalifornian Joined on Mon, Feb 14 2005 Los Angeles, California Regular Member 586 Accents