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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Are you looking for the perfect accent?

“Only spies need to have perfect accents.”1 The rest of us, in other words, should be free to express who we are, including linguistically.
  

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Hi, Can you please make your question clearer? Did you mean to ask a question or were you just making a statement?

— Farihasaleh

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  • Did you mean to ask a question or were you just making a statement?
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Hi,

Can you please make your question clearer? Did you mean to ask a question or were you just making a statement?
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farihasalehHi,

Can you please make your question clearer? Did you mean to ask a question or were you just making a statement?


Hi. My question was about satisfaction or disatifaction with the accent one has when speaking English. Specific questions might be:

Are you looking to imitate a certain accent? Is that a native speaker accent? Do
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Having a specific accent is useless, too hard and not worth it, unless you are surrounded by that accent most of the time. Learners usually have to deal with several varieties of English (General American, Californian, RP, London, African American, etc.), so it would be pointless to try to speak exactly like someone from, like, Philadelphia or Edinburgh, when they'll be hearing thos
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