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Could it be that Academia just exposed your mom to so many different types of people that she dropped any previous accent, remember it’s all about perspective. To someone from Idaho your mom might have stood out like a beacon.
funny brit pronunciations
oregano = or-ah-gone-oh
banana = bah-nah-nah
tomato = toe-mah-toe
Donald Trump certainly had a very privileged upbringing, more so than any academic lace-curtain Catholic family in Brooklyn.
My friends from California always make fun of my NYC + Chinese accent. “skool” often triggers their commenting – just like the canadien co-workers with their “abOUT”
There’s a lot of self-deprecating (I think) “Engrish” humor on the internet.
M4L – how do they pronounce school?
By that reasoning Donald Trump must be underprivileged.
Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at October 20, 2009 12:58 PM
Joe, Money does not buy class.
BTW I said “much less to do with class” not “nothing to do with class.”
My friends from California always make fun of my NYC + Chinese accent. “skool” often triggers their commenting – just like the canadien co-workers with their “abOUT”
egional accents have much less to do with class.
Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at October 20, 2009 11:39 AM
Joe-I have to disagree..the way one speaks and they way they are taught as children to intonate have everything to do with upbringing and class.
By that reasoning Donald Trump must be underprivileged.