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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" :dumb: apparently enunciation is now a character flaw and Home Counties politeness equals deception, which is convenient :rolleyes: 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 :hammer: 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 :confused: i am surrounded by people who treat phonetics as prophecy and i am the only one with a dictionary :banghead: :pray: does anyone here actually judge credibility by the quality of someone's consonants or is my friend operating in a private linguistic dimension :confused:

"I aint read the notebook YET" -- GraceWarrior_77, day 102 of tomorrow. The book has 11 chapters. -- GV