[Info-vax] Webinar "AUTOGEN and SYSGEN"

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:18:27 +0000, brad wrote:

> On 2012-04-30, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG>
> wrote:
>> In article <p9Nhwswfysjn at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
>> koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>>>In article <slrnjpjda8.des.brown at libra.gmcl.internal>, Rob Brown
>>><brown at libra.gmcl.internal> writes:
>>>
>>>   Sometimes the conservation of Rs happens in the same sentence:
>>>
>>>      Don't you eat cahn in Tacomar?
>  
> From a native of the Eastern MA area, the correct pronunciation is
> "conn", not "cahn".
> 
> VAXMAN complained about the "Joysey" accent causing aural hemhorrage -
> my complaint is with the fake accents often heard in Hollywood movies -
> only Ben Affleck and Matt Damon get it right!
> [...]

Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins is the all time classic.  So bad that it's 
quite amusing :-)

The fake accent that had me in stitches in real life was a Brit who 
worked for DEC in the US and was in the group who gave us our first 
presentation on Digital Storage Architecture, RMS journalling, clustering 
et al, circa 1983.  He dropped the "g"s from anything ending in "ing", 
which I believe was an upper class fashion a few hundred years ago.  IIRC 
The Scarlet Pimpernel spoke like that in the book when he was pretending 
to be an idiot as part of his cover when smuggling aristocrats out of 
revolutionary France.

-- 
Paul Sture