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...creatively multilingual Seven Years in Tibet, Brad Pitt begs such a question, as he has his way with an allegedly Austrian accent through widespread and wanton application of generic "movie accent" elements like long vowels and rolled R's. Yet this phonetic plum pudding, a synthetic dialect of sorts, fits the story's cross-cultural spirit. Ultimately, the blooming of emotion that marks the central transformation of Pitt's character in the face of Tibetan culture makes an otherwise sappy moral and politically correct focus much more palatable...
...military forces seemed to support Beijing's promise. The first wave arrived waving to crowds with few if any weapons in sight. Beijing's effort to smooth the transition went a step further when it declared its troops have boned up on Hong Kong's constitution, laws, customs and dialect. Overall, speculation that China's presence would be greeted with widespread hostility has so far proven unfounded as hundreds of citizens lined the roads, waving flags and applauding the Chinese military's arrival. The latest polls support an easing attitude towards Hong Kong's new rulers, finding 35.1 percent...
Though named for an island in Louisiana, Gardiner is definitely a native Mainer. The state has a dialect all its own. Gardiner describes people--such as her mother--who've moved to Maine from other parts of the country as "from away...
Ebonic fever is the term that I use to describe the current national obsession with the American dialect spoken mostly by the black lower-class community. The dialect has been identified and studied for years, but only in small academic circles. Only since the recent decision by the Oakland, Calif. school board to officially recognize Ebonics as a second language has the public at large cared about it, or even bothered to listen to the academics. Since then, Ebonics has made the front page of every major newspaper across the country, has been the main subject on every major news...
...race and class further apart, and faster. Take a close look at where Ebonics is being debated and examined: Time, Newsweek, the college debate teams and op-ed sections of the papers. Who reads and writes these articles and who participates in these debates? More importantly, how is the dialect explained and portrayed...