[CT] [ot]: Phonetics (was: Re: Left Behind)
Daniel Moran
dkm_1 at pacbell.net
Thu Jan 24 14:17:21 PST 2002
Jodi makes this argument better than I do -- though it'd be overstating it
to suggest she really cares ... her attitude is that Californians, and
particularly Los Angeleans, don't have accents, because we make all the
movies and television and therefore the way we speak is the de facto Accent
of America.
At 11:43 AM 1/24/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> > I don't have an accent; I speak like TV.
>
>Sorry; my last note on this topic:
>
>On the current season, they have a Californian landscape designer, and
>just the
>difference in how all the different people pronounce "driveway" is funny.
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