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To: TobagoJack who wrote (35576)	7/1/2003 10:56:57 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

>>Zhang Yi-mou spoke Mandarin without any accent.<< Isn't that like saying someone speaks English without an accent? Can't be done. Even in England, the birthplace of the English language, there are umpteen accents. People who work for the BBC speak with an educated accent but not as upper class as the Queen, which is more sing-song. In America, the least noticable accent is the one that television news reporters and screen accents use. We're all accustomed to it by now. But it's still an accent. I call it the educated accent. The accent is more modulated, tonal, and controlled than, say, Brooklynese, but less than, say, upscale Bostonian. (Downscale Bostonian is a different matter.) You realize that when you listen to foreign actors speak English the way they always speak it at home, and then switch to their American accents and sound "normal." Let me guess that Zhang Yi-mou speaks Mandarin as it is spoken by the educated class in Beijing?