Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Accents. Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2025 14:44:15 +0100 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <68eb8c02$0$24822$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10d0f0e$1u8bd$1@dont-email.me> <68f40083$0$28050$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <20251020092029.000020b3@gmail.com> <68fcc773$0$417$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <10djhg8$3kg9d$5@dont-email.me> <10donsh$17dho$6@dont-email.me> <10dp2m1$1ctkt$1@dont-email.me> <7jtMQ.876831$7Ika.50088@fx17.iad> <4luctlxlmi.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10e0obl$n2t$13@dont-email.me> <10e1f94$7gc2$3@dont-email.me> <10e2j40$it2l$1@dont-email.me> <10e3gim$rpu5$7@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 8j9qMVhIe2POQMSCzSw2RAYtgENA8RkH50kpT+Nuaqs8dIzXMW X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:VMg+7GGfVGPxEW/kvmSdL1uohIM= sha256:Xp9skhanCQKevTbiPCDK49kWk0gftjd0b6EKNlXFF2c= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <10e3gim$rpu5$7@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76909 On 2025-11-01 00:26, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:03:27 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> People with strong accents in England are often hard to understand >> unless you have been around them a long time, which is why RP - >> essentially the dialect of the home counties near London ... > > Funny how that didn’t actually include London itself. > >> ... - was taught as a standard all could understand. Sadly socialism >> decreed this to be discriminatory against people with accents. > > Perhaps because there is no such thing as “accentless” speech. > > There was a lovely “Two Ronnies” sketch, back in the day, that > skewered this issue rather well. They did a lot of playing-on-language > skits, but this one really put paid to the fond delusion that RP was > somehow easier to understand than any other accent ... If the goal is to have English as an universal language, teaching a common accent makes a lot of sense. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;