[b-hebrew] southern thoroughbreds

Read, James C K0434995 at kingston.ac.uk
Wed Sep 21 03:02:10 EDT 2005


I live in Herts and I'm a student of computer science. My fields are IT Security and 
artificial intelligence (machine translation). I make a few websites in my spare time. 
I suppose I was referring more to Thames valley English than southern English in general.
I'm learning the Essex dialect 'awight mate?' and I was conscious that the Southern 
statement might be a bit too sweeping but I didn't want to make it too complicated to 
understand for the Americans.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Newman [mailto:rob at designceramics.co.uk]
Sent: Wed 9/21/2005 12:17 AM
To: Read, James C
Subject: southern thoroughbreds  
 
Hello James,
A personal mail in reaction to your post on b-hebrew.
As a southerner i was amused to see that I use the expressions you mention. Still not all southerners have the queens English, i'm from Essex and speak what's been dubbed estury english (those around the mouth of the Thames), we have 'v' instead of 'th' miss vowels and 't's etc. some brothers in my
Congregation  speak quite  proper and they often pick me up on my pronunciation, actually from the point of view of public speaking (according to a CO originally from Essex) a pure Essex voice is bad enough to annoy people all over the country and detract from the talk.

I really enjoy your posts james and if you were one time a little critical of anothers position you apologized humbly and that's to be respected, of course 'in the abundance of words there doesn't fail to be transgression'. Modesty shines out o b-hebrew cos some members are so arrogant. Its nice to know there's as yet no significant objection to our chronological position as you presented it. Your knowledge of Hebrew  is good, do you work in the accademic world?
Greetings
Yb
Robert Newman



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