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To: RealMuLan who wrote (35586)	7/1/2003 12:43:51 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 74559

Why do you think I am complaining about it? It's completely normal for people to aspire to speak the language as it is spoken in the capitol city.

To: RealMuLan who wrote (35586)	7/1/2003 7:16:01 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hello Yiwu. RE <English speakers with dif. accent can at least understand each other, this is not the case with a lot of Chinese dialect > Actually, that's not the case. I've spent a lot of years listening to all sorts of English accents and there are still some I struggle with. Americans have trouble with various accents [I suppose because they are less exposed to a wide range of accents than the polyglot morass of humanity outside the USA]. Some heavy Scottish accents are like another language. I find Americans have trouble even with my relatively benign accent [and especially if non-American words slip in, such as fortnight]. In Belgium, towns 20km apart have different accents. The distance one could travel in a day or two was the dividing line between accents in the old days. Similarly in England and I suppose China. Now it's High Dutch, Mid-Atlantic English, Mandarin and Tokyoese which are dominating. Now that the world is one community of interest, the process will continue. Niche languages will lose ground. Mqurice