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“the only “proper” accent is British English”
Like a Birmingham, UK accent?
I don’t know what “British English” is seeing as Britain is Scotland, Wales and England.
Perhaps you mean an English English accent.
Walt Whitman was recorded?? What year? I love him- he’s one of those poets whose work is very visual – and so beautiful.
He was, I remember Martin Scorcese talking about it (it might be cited at the end) in the director’s commentary for Gangs of New York. You could probably just google it or check the website for the Smithsonian…
And yes his writing is very beautiful.
Dandel,
I think M4L said that not DIBS.
Posted by: Petebklyn at October 20, 2009 11:27 AM
That was me. TARP $$$ left the barn already so too late to do anything about it. I wouldn’t mind seeing a few more banks disappear like lehman, bear,…. but hey, I’m the one deciding to bail them out. Since TARP money already paid out, one of the better outcome for us non-bankers is bonus being paid out. In this economy, one has to be a little selfish – ie I rather those bonus tax rev close some of the state & city budget gaps than them leaning hard on us non-bankers.
dh, all of the large investment banks/commercial banks (GS, JPM, MS,C) have set aside huge amounts as announced the last week or so for 3Q earnings. the amounts are MUCH larger than last year.
Bonuses will be huge this year. When I find a table that outlines all of the investment banks I’ll post it here.
I hear a lot of young people pronouncing “I” (as in me) as “ah”. Like the sound you make when the doctor’s got your toungue pressed down with that flat wooden stick.
Bronx people drop the H in TH a lot of the time (tree instead of three)
I disdain any accent being thought of as “proper” as the only “proper” accent is British English of which Brooklynese is more closely related than the cold, neutral “newscaster” Midwestern American English.Here in the United States due to our relatively high social mobility (at least in the past…) regional accents have much less to do with class.
Walt Whitman was recorded?? What year? I love him- he’s one of those poets whose work is very visual – and so beautiful.
I had an English teacher who once read Stephen Vincent Benet’s Mountain Whippoorwill to us. She started by tapping her foot to some unheard music and began to read. It was music and poetry and I never forgot the sound of her voice going up and down and the changes.Years later when I first heard the Sugar Hill gang, they reminded me of her reading.
“Bronxese = “T’s” pronounce like “D’s””
Thats American accents period.
I doubt anyone here, except Etson, pronounces the T in water, or makes the T in party a T instead of a D.
I’ve learnt in America there’s no difference between utter and udder.
I don’t know how Canadian’s pronounce T.