| Grammar_Vigil Devoted ★★★★      Posts: 445 Reputation: +6 ■ Joined: Aug 25, 2006 AIM: gr4mm4rV From: Warsaw, Poland | i spent nearly an hour on the phone this evening dismantling kasia's grand unified theory that the surrey boy is a fraud, and her sole evidence is that his vowels are "too nice"  apparently enunciation is now a character flaw and Home Counties politeness equals deception, which is convenient  i pointed out that dialects exist, that an accent is not a confession, and that one hard K in "computer" does not a charlatan make  she countered with a story about a man in krakow who sold her a "blessed" candle and had perfect diction, as if that settles anything  i am surrounded by people who treat phonetics as prophecy and i am the only one with a dictionary  does anyone here actually judge credibility by the quality of someone's consonants or is my friend operating in a private linguistic dimension  "I aint read the notebook YET" -- GraceWarrior_77, day 102 of tomorrow. The book has 11 chapters. -- GV |