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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution

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On 5/3/17, 7:00 AM, in article op.yzn07spljs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson
Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 20:47:12 +0100, Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>> On 2017-04-23 15:00, Ken Blake wrote:
>> [Snit wrote:}
>>>> It took me a while to accept it, but I still cringe when I hear people
>>>> pronounce the "t" in "often". Used to be that was considered a no-no... but
>>>> it is done so often it is now accepted.
>>> 
>>> Accepted by some people, but not by me. To me, it's another example of
>>> "simply wrong."
>> 
>> To all of you who get antsy about usage variations, etc:
>> 
>> http://www.atlas.mouton-content.com/
>> 
>> Regional and class dialects are a fact of life. None of the
>> English-speaking countries have an Academy that pretends to enforce
>> language standards. However, standards do exist. In English, they are
>> quite elastic, with much wider variations accepted than in French for
>> example. Eg, the Queens' English in the UK, variations thereon on
>> Australia, Canada, etc, and educated usage in the USA.
>> 
>> The problem arises when speaker's own dialect is close to the standard
>> in accent, which in the USA is vaguely Mid-Western with easily
>> understood East/West Coast and Southern varieties. When the other
>> speaker's speech is within the standard accent-range, even small
>> differences in usage may feel like errors. If the accent were more
>> different, usage variations would be felt as dialectical: that is, not
>> part of the standard, and therefore acceptable within the dialect.
>> 
>> Some regional and city dialects in every country are so far from the
>> standard that they are (linguistically speaking) different languages,
>> and may even be unintelligible to people whose native dialect is close
>> to the standard.
>> 
>> BTW, in England I've heard oft'n more often than off'n.
> 
> What about "orfen"?
> "When riding one's hawse, one orfen finds one's self lying on the grind."

Yes, I have heard that, too. Irksome to me. :)

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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-03 15:00 +0100
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