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That's a strange dichotomy to make. How is accent elimination different from an accent change from a nonstandard accent to a standard accent?
by Calavar 4y ago
That's a strange dichotomy to make. How is accent elimination different from an accent change from a nonstandard accent to a standard accent?
- john-radio 4y agoHe's just pointing out that the concept of "accent elimination" is obviously coming from someone who is in a mindset of, "I sometimes have coworkers who have accents, unlike me, who speaks in the default accent"
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- zarzavat 4y agoI believe that "accent" here refers to "phonetics of a foreign language applied by a non-native English speaker". i.e. German speakers who merge /w/ and /v/ because no such distinction exists in German. That's a different kind of accent from an American, British or Kiwi accent, etc, which are produced by divergent populations of native English speakers.
- eega 4y agoWhy do you think that there isn’t any distinction between /w/ and /v/ in German? That’s simply not true …