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Angliholic Posted 18 years ago
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get his Irish accent across to the audience

0Although he spoke slowly, he couldn't 01b00get his Irish accent across to the audience02b00.02br
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02font 02br 02br 01font 00Does the bolded part make sense to you? 02u 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-

— Clive

  • 02font 02br 02br 01font 00Does the bolded part make sense to you?
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0Hi,02br
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01font00Although he spoke slowly, he couldn't 01b00get his Irish accent across to the audience02b00.02font02br
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0 Makes sense to me - he couldn't get his Irish accent accross to the audience - so his Irish accident meant the audience could not understand him. Had he got his accent across he would, at the same time, have got his message/information across 0-
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0I would agree with Clive here. The audience probably did 'get' his accent, but nothing else -- that is, they probably understood that he had an Irish accent, but did not understand what he was trying to say. 0-
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1i00He then said that my 01b00accent02b00 01b00didn't02b00 01b00come02b00 01b00across0
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0Hi,02br
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01i00'to get something across (to someone)'02i02br
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01i00'something comes across (to someone)'02i02br
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00These are two pretty different expressions, although they both feature the word 'across'.02br
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0 But if you get something across to someone it must have come across to them if they got it! 02br
00The point here is that he didn't succeed in getting his accent across to the audience - despite speaking slowly the audience were unable to understand his accent and as a result could not comprehend what he was saying. The audience were unable to accept his accent!0-
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0Sorry to join the fray, but I'm right with Khoff on this. Probably, the only thing that DID make it through to the audience was the accent, not the message. In the original, it sounds like he wasn't able to convince them he was Irish.02br
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00As Clive says, "get across" and "come across" are different expressions. 0-
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0 It is not clear from the sentence whether the audience did or did not 'get' his Irish accent - it may have been such that his accent was totally incomprehensible, even to the point that the audience were not able to recognise his accent as being Irish. He couldn't get his accent across - so - his accent didn't come across to the audience in a way that was clear. 02br
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