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December 04, 2005
Answer to one of Ariel's questions
Ariel's question: Isn't there a general American, and a general British dialect that speak for the majority of the citizens?
I believe there is a general dialect (or would it be accent...?) that others from a different country hear and that they cannot always detect the specific dialect within American or British English. There are certain phonetic qualities a language has that distinguishes it from another and these general similiarties are what make up the French language, the German, Italian, American, British, etc., etc. We are just hypersensitive to the differences between dialects within languages.
Posted by lcisfreya at December 4, 2005 08:27 PM