My primary experience with canadians is through ice hockey. Now those guys are really hard to understand. It seems as if they *pretend* they don't really speak English at all--some North Americanized version of French only, please. So when they "must" speak English they mutilate the accent.
;) (note winky face) Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 22:58:56 -0600 >From: "Shearon, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [tips] The Southern accent >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> > > >Stephen- My apologies. I did check, btw. So I did try to be a good scholar, >honestly, I did. But being an igornant southerner I must have missed it! :) >(Or I just screwed up the search). Can you enlighten me though. I thought the >"A" at the end of sentences was alliterated differently than "eh" which is >more like "huh" to my ear. But you are correct that I'd certainly defer to a >Canadian about things Canadian!! > >Which is really to say, "Sorry, Michael". I was so offended by your >characterization of Southerners, of which I am one, that I erred just as >badly, apparently. Mea culpa Canada! >Tim >_______________________________ >Timothy O. Shearon, PhD >Professor and Chair Department of Psychology >The College of Idaho >Caldwell, ID 83605 >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and >systems > >"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thu 4/3/2008 9:50 PM >To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) >Subject: RE: [tips] The Southern accent > >On 3 Apr 2008 at 21:43, Shearon, Tim wrote: > >> Canadians do not say "Eh" (unless they are >> hard of hearing). Start with http://www.billcasselman.com/ Y'all come >> back now. Stephen or others may have better suggestions. :) > >Yes he does. And one of them is to assert, with pride, that Canadians do >indeed say "eh". Certainly I do, every day, and I'm not hard of >hearing. And bill casselman agrees, if you'd check your own reference. >He says, "Eh? is a true marker of Canadian speech". > >What we don't say is "aboot". > >Stephen > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. >Professor of Psychology, Emeritus >Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >2600 College St. >Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 >Canada > >Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of >psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >________________ >TNEF22000.rtf (3k bytes) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
