Re: Back to Duncan's post was Re: This isn't about 'dinner'


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Posted by John Lambert on February 26, 2008 at 09:42:13 from 64.59.144.85 user Benedict.

In Reply to: Re: Back to Duncan's post was Re: This isn't about 'dinner' posted by Owen Roberts on February 26, 2008 at 23:09:42:

As a reader from across the pond, this sensitivity to class prejudice is just a little hard to fathom. I know we have talked about it before, but the way I read AR is that he was well aware of the differences in class, and wasn't particularly bothered by them. People speak with different accents which indicate level of education, etc. but the biggest difference in accent in my part of the world is found in the foreigners who come to make a home on these shores. Since I was born in England, I still remember my different reactions to people who spoke with a "received accent" and those who didn't. Even so, as Professor Higgins says, "This verbal class distinction, by now, should be antique." I keep running into Higgins's observations as part of real life. As a child, I was impressed by the received pronunciation and felt a twinge of contempt for those who spoke with a common accent. Maybe this is what you're on about. "The moment (an Englishman) talks he makes some other Englishman despise him." Even now? In 2008?


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