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To: Eleutheria5

British accent....

Isaac Asimov once observed the same things said by someone with a British accent would be believed more readily and admired as erudite than by a person from Brooklyn or Queens who would be assumed to be an uneducated person to be ignored.


16 posted on 12/14/2024 12:18:12 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

Same thing with some accents I’ve heard in the Florida Panhandle.


18 posted on 12/14/2024 12:19:48 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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