Re: The "Brief" History of Film and Photography..

On 25 Sep 2004 at 14:08, Alex Hurst wrote, at least in part:

> You're spot on about Hannover, Roger. That's where my 'Hochdeutsch'
> got fluent, and my English more broken.
> 
> Not so sure about Oxford. There's something called the 'Oxford 
> drawl', which has characteristics all of its own. Something near the
> way the Royals speak: 'hice' instead of 'house' The standard over
> here used to be something called 'BBC English', as practised by BBC
> announcers. Sadly (or maybe not), the BBC made a policy decision to
> drop this standard. So we now hear a rich diversity of regional
> accents from the presenters.

Same here, Alex. As a kid, my mother used to tell me to listen to 
the radio announcers. They were pretty strict about grammar and 
accentless [sic] presentation. Nowadays, though, the sky's the 
limit!

Interesting, in that while we seem bent on erasing regional 
differences on one hand, they're encouraged in other respects. But, 
the mobility factor is winning and it is what I think is most 
responsible for the blurring of regional differences.

-- 
Roger

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