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Mosca Posted 18 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

AE Accent in Video Presentation??

0Here's a native ae speaker - who does a great presentation - however I'd like to know what kind of accent this guy's most probably using as I noticed his accent doesn't sound as thick as usually. 02br
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01a05000 02a0250hrefhttp://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=710
  

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0 I wouldn't be surprised to find out he's Canadian. 02br 02br 00I'd be interested to hear if Clive agrees. 0-

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  • 0 I wouldn't be surprised to find out he's Canadian.
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0 I wouldn't be surprised to find out he's Canadian. He's "o" sounds sound north of our border, although also typical of the very northern Midwest.02br
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00I'd be interested to hear if Clive agrees. 0-
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0That's kind of is interesting - isn't the distinction between Candian and US english totally clearcut for you people "involved"? No offense, I'm just curious. 02br
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0Hi,02br
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00I can't play this link.02br
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00But generally speaking, I can't listen to someone speaking English and decide clearly that they are Canadian.02br
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00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0I can't tell that they are clearly Canadian, but I can tell they are not from the deep South, or New England, or New Jersey, or Brooklyn. 02br
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00There's a vast "Middle America" in which the accent is not very distinct at all.02br
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00Then, in the middle of the country, the further north you go, the more the vowels in words like "out" or "house" ch
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0Interesting .. really didn't think it worked that way .. thanks for letting me know. 050010id1
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00Geez! How many different formats are there for videos?02br
00Every time I turn around these days, it's fifteen more downloads to play anything.02br
00Isn't anyone standardizing this stuff?02br
00(My question may reveal how naive I am about these things.)02br
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0Hi Jim, you're definately NOT naive, on the contrary, we're simply caught in the middle of the different software vendors fighting to promote their format .. standards are merely decided by a survival of the "fattest" process .. 02br
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00be interested to hear your opinion on the subject though. 02br
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10Isn't anyone standardizing this stuff?12br
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10Yes, but everyone wants their new product. Everyone wants their patents and their copyrights. Everyone wants to further complicate badly designed systems instead of simplifying them. Everyone wants to invent something new, no matter how
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0 Yet another Micro$oft attempt to dominate the web. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.0-
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