By Negatives, Accents

Hmm, in the other thread, you wanted to hear a definition of a standard from someone, even if you know a real standard doesn't actually exist. And here you are asking why some things are often stigmatized, but others rarely are. So I don't understand what it is that you are trying to find...

Hi Barb! :-) If someone has "a plummy accent/voice" this sounds quite negative, i.e. implying that the person is a snob. However, "plummy" can also have a positive meaning, e.g. If someone has "a plummy job", this means they have a great/really nice job. Greetings from Holland, Ann

Dear forum-ers, I was born in the UK and acquired the english language as a joint first language with arabic. My family moved back to our country when I was still a child, and although I always maintained a very high standard of spoken, and written english I unfortunately lost my accent. I...

No, IMO the reading is closer to: No truly optimist leaders ever existed but they WERE at least to some extent optimists. or: No leaders worthy of the optimist name ever existed but they WERE at least to some extent optimists. The accent is on were and one cannot get rid of they.

Oh heck yes. I've lived in Georgia all my life, and it used to anger my mother very much how Southerners were portrayed by the media (meaning, people in New York City and Hollywood): racist, emotionally unstable, inbred, uneducated, and violent. And the accent itself was used as a stand-in for...

Hi Feathers,yes, she probably say that. You know, I didn't read it all and learned it by heart, I just tried to remember the most important things and see if I recognize some of those featuers in Americans' speech. For example, I didn't try any of those exercises with the rubber band... I still...

Hey, you posted twice! So I will reply to this too! You said you had speech therapy when you were younger. Why not take it up again? You can transform your speaking voice in 5 to 10 hour long sessions. I know because I did this to improve my own articulation. I've also heard of accent...

Forming a negative opinion about someone solely on his or her accent is a form of elitism.

I'm from North Carolina and you can definetly tell the educated accents from the uneducated accents. Yet, it has more to do with your grammar than anything. I cringe whenever I hear someone use a double negative (I ain't got none). I can understand where the prejudice, but it is entertaining...

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