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> Alison Hopkins wrote:
>> wrote in message
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>> > Do you read Shakespeare in the original accent (a kind of
>> > Scottish-style brogue)?
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>> You illiterate oaf. It's akin to a Black Country accent, which is totally
>> unlike a Scots brogue. .......
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> Not according to Harvard professor Seth Lehrer. He compared it to
> "pirates' english" with rolling r's like the Scots tend to use.
You fuckwit, where do you think "pirate English" comes from? It's related to
the dialects spoken to the West of England, from Worcestershire across to
the West Country. Guess what, they roll their Rs. Guess what, they sound
NOTHING like a Scot! It's a different bloody country you half baked ninny.
Have you actually ever been here, or heard a true local accent? Christ on a
crutch the bloody French roll their Rs. Do they sound Scots, you blithering
fool?
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> Also remember, Shakespeare wrote prior to the great vowel shift, and
> therefore used european-style vowels (where e sounds like a, i sounds
> like e, and so forth). I'm not aware of any English speakers that use
> european-style vowels.
What the hell are you on about? Or on? I speak three "European" languages.
Plus a further few in some way. Are you such an inward looking idiot of a
Merkin that you think all European languages use the same vowel sound? I can
tell you that French is just a bit different from German and Spanish. And
don't get me started on Euskadi.
And I could point you at several dialects in England, where we speak
English, believe it or not, where e sounds like a, for example. Including my
husband's accent. He's from Plymouth.
God in heaven, is this what the US education system turns out? It explains a
great deal.
Ali
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