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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (28425)9/10/2006 3:01:29 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 541035
 
Speaking, after looks, is one of the first ways we judge people. Although we aren't exactly like the UK in having a class system based on accents, there are still important advantages to speaking with the kind of accent a newscaster has, and with some semblance of clarity. That's our "lingua franca". And having people respect you, and take you seriously, depends a lot on your accent and clarity. That's just the way it is- that's what we should tell kids who don't want to drop the "black English" or the Spanglish, and that's what we ought to tell presidents who can't use words correctly, and who stumble over simple sentences and sayings.
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