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Re: Leenooks



On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:43:00 +0100, Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:31:00 +1100, Hamish wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 03:29:57PM +0100, Adam Sjøgren wrote:
> 
> >> American?! Funny :-)
> 
> > Did you mean "Sad"?
> 
> I think I meant "Funny" in a ridiculous-like sense.
> 
> (While it perhaps would be more obvious to imagine a Finnish person
> speaking English with a Finnish (or Swedish :-)) accent, those of us
> who are from non-English-speaking parts of the world tend to get our
> English accents from movies and tv. Sad but nevertheless, at least
> partly, true).

I agree with that, but I wouldn't qualify it as 'sad'. Picking a bit
of this and a bit of that, each one of us develops it's own funny
artificial English accent; sometimes you sound like captain Kirk,
sometimes like Pumba... you name it :)



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