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| From | Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.usage.english |
| Subject | Re: "Parallel societies" |
| Date | 2026-06-29 10:14 +1000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <111sdd7$3v62q$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 28/06/26 21:41, occam wrote: > On 28/06/2026 13:08, Peter Moylan wrote: >> Still, I made some effort to integrate. I worked hard at learning >> to speak American. > > <smile> Would that be white American, or some other variety of AmE? Berkeley is a place where you don't often meet a native Californian. People have migrated there from all over the country, and of course from outside the country as well. As a result, there's not a well-defined local dialect. It's a mixture of multiple influences, and I guess that[s what I learnt to speak. "White American" is as good a description as any. The black people in that area speak a rather different dialect. I learnt to understand that, but not to speak it. -- Peter Moylan peter@pmoylan.org http://www.pmoylan.org Newcastle, NSW
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"Parallel societies" occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-06-27 08:00 +0200
Re: "Parallel societies" Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-28 11:07 +1000
Re: "Parallel societies" Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-28 06:11 +0100
Re: "Parallel societies" Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-28 10:42 +0200
Re: "Parallel societies" nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-06-28 11:01 +0200
Re: "Parallel societies" Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-28 21:08 +1000
Re: "Parallel societies" occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-06-28 13:41 +0200
Re: "Parallel societies" Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-29 10:14 +1000
Re: "Parallel societies" wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-06-29 00:55 +0000
Re: "Parallel societies" athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-29 15:04 +0000
Re: "Parallel societies" Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-28 14:46 +0100
Re: "Parallel societies" Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-28 10:40 +0200
Re: "Parallel societies" liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-06-28 15:32 +0100
Re: "Parallel societies" Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-28 17:24 +0200
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