Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Model," a combination of "total immersion" techniques used in language schools such as Berlitz and solid structural underpinnings. Rassias' aim: to start students talking in a new language within minutes after the first class begins and to keep them "communicating" at a rapid rate-never mind, at first, accent, vocabulary or minor mistakes in grammar. Each first-year course requires two hours of class drill a day plus four hours a week of traditional lab work...
Southern Democrat: What accent...
Some listeners are convinced that Carter's accent has been considerably -and quite consciously-modified by his schooling in the North, his Navy travels and even by campaign-speech consultants. Not so, insists Pederson. "He does not seem to have messed around with his language very much," says the linguist. "That's the sign of a person who's got his head on straight...
...above glossary, based on reports from TIME correspondents in the South, was written by a native of Baltimore and edited by a native of Brooklyn, both of whom speak widout de faintest trace of any kinda accent...
Snow's Spanish accent is dismal, so he spends his idle moments attempting to figure out his batting average. He struggles with an intractable decimal point, tries dividing times at bat by number of pitches missed, then multiplying the hits. As Pryor plays him, Charlie is a fellow of wit and resource, and his struggle with these impossible calculations is, much like his whole life, a slowly losing battle against absurdity. Jay Cocks