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<<We don't really regard Indian-English as being a proper dialect of English, merely English spoken with an Indian accent, and grammatically influenced by the persons native tongue.Standard and non-standard dialects>> A standard dialect (also known as a standardized dialect or...

Milky wrote: Marvin A. wrote:I'm sure there's something like that somewhere, as a joke. That would really be a laugh, because at least here, where it isn't often that you run into an Indian, they have the reputation of being very hard to understand. I was speaking seriously. If, as you say,...

It’s rather hard to work out quite what you are looking for here. Some of these features – as Marvin A was pointing out – are not specifically American English pronunciation, but the allophonic variation that occurs in connected speech. That is, the pronunciation of some sounds is influenced...

since I'm learning American English, I wanted to know why that standard American Accent was awfulFirst of all, I didn't think it was awful. (I mostly listened, not watching.) The following are some observations. 1. The stress pattern is slightly off. Slightly too much rising pitch at...

Well this conversation is ancient, but maybe you get a tickler when someone replies adn will find this. The guy's accent is crap. I'm Canadian but I'm from Toronto where our accent is *almost* standard American (or what we called in the film business Mid-west Flat) and I can tell you a few...

We also need to consider that there are many different accents of North American English, just as there are many British English accents. You might well pass for a native speaker from New York in Alabama, for instance, although a New Yorker would be able to place you for a foreigner (or at least...

EyeSeeYou wrote: Marvin A. wrote: EyeSeeYou wrote:Marvin: what do you mean by 'conservative RP'.Conservative RP is called "the British accent" in North America. Words that end with -y, are pronounced with instead. It came as a real surprise to know that 'conservative RP' pronounce the -y...

Marvin A. wrote: EyeSeeYou wrote:Marvin: what do you mean by 'conservative RP'.Conservative RP is called "the British accent" in North America. Words that end with -y, are pronounced with instead. It came as a real surprise to know that 'conservative RP' pronounce the -y thatway (like /I/ )...

Marvin A. wrote: EyeSeeYou wrote:Marvin: what do you mean by 'conservative RP'.Conservative RP is called "the British accent" in North America. Words that end with -y, are pronounced with instead. It came as a real surprise to know that 'conservative RP' pronounce the -y thatway (like )...

Thus, in order to receive "native speaker status" (and by this I mean that people assume she is a native speaker of English.), she could get away with speaking less than perfect British English, whereas she would have to speak with an absolutely *perfect* North American English accent in order to...