Tom Rivers wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:Dialects in the UK and Ireland have all but disappeared. When I was young Geordies and Glaswegians were unintelligible.They are alive and well (and unintelligible). As to the US English use well in the UK proper it is considered a sign of poor education, lack of intelligence and being socially disadvantaged to speak like an American (unless you are one, in which case we'll feel sorry for you instead providing you didn't vote for Bush). Thus it does matter hugely to the point it determines influence, jobs and career pathsWow, now here's something new - someone slipping yet another "slam America" post into a discussion on this list. And look, it even has one of those rare political statements about Bush. How original.Please, let's stick to issues that aren't political in nature. It's getting harder and harder to find places where people have the common decency to keep their political opinions to themselves and I would hate to see this forum become polluted with more of this inappropriate content. Besides, it's just plain impolite; nobody likes to have their country bashed by anyone much less someone who doesn't even live there.Tom
Pretty much.
