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

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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."

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