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The supposed -and very "imaginative"- differences and features of different "accents" regarding "elisions" and other ""s are some of them wrong and most of them different registers inside the same country and not differences between countries -there are differences indeed, but not elided "s"-. It's the "y'all" and "ain't" this side of the Grande River. Youtube, Skype and all of the monstersphere is not the place to understand how language works as it all becomes the "greatest common divisor" of human communication ¿No' entendemo' o no no' entendemo'? (extremely vulgar register in most countries; between colloquial and vulgar in some regions). This is like discussing that in some "countries" they say "semos ma' i quanno haiga lu' salimo' i lo' bamo' a rrrebenta' ". Poppycock!
If I were to write here a taxonomy of English accents departing from what I hear, what I fail to hear, what I'm not sure about and what I don't know for sure, I could run wild for pages and pages.
Feel free to not understand what I'm saying.
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August 22, 2011, 01:14 PM
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