Sunday, April 22, 2007

How do you talk? Or is that tooo-wok?

http://www.memegen.net/view/show/2313?page=1

I'm Midlands or maybe Western. Generic US, basically. This one actually had a 'definition' of Canadian, though, um, isn't it a really big country? And do they really all sound the same from one end to the other? Ah, didn't think so. But they tried.

Reminds of grad school, when I was TA-ing a beginning ESL class and had to try to teach them the difference in pronunciation of Mary/merry/marry. Um, there is no difference. But the teachers and the book came from New England/New York (the university was in Washington, DC, which was close to the line between Yankee and South). I just had them all say it as best they could and anything that sounded about right was fine.

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