What is en_US ?

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

El Viernes, 15 de Junio de 2007 16:40, Timothy Murphy escribió:
>
> Sadly, perhaps, any difference is disappearing fast.
> My 10-year old grand-daughter talks a kind of mid-Atlantic or MTV English,
> which is not surprising since she watches Disney channel all day long.
> She would be as likely to say "elevator" as "lift".

Well, in my opinion that's not bad, I mean, it's not bad to learn words people 
use in the other side of the Atlantic. Although I cannot imagine myself 
speaking like an argentinian :-)
>
> Her friend next door from Northern Ireland
> can "do" a Northern accent if requested,
> but normally speaks in the same way.

Ummm I wonder in which situation could be one requested to speak with a 
specific accent :-)

>
> Dialects in the UK and Ireland have all but disappeared.
> When I was young Geordies and Glaswegians were unintelligible.
> Now someone with a real accent is treasured as an antique.
> (I introduced a Scottish friend of mine recently,
> and someone commented, "You do that accent beautifully".)

I do love the scottish accent, though, in the beginning is difficult to 
understand for not native speakers but after a while it's wonderful. (yeah I 
had a scottish girlfriend, hehe)

>
> People in NY and London (and Paris) are unintelligible
> because they speak too fast, and anyway don't care if you understand.

Like here in Madrid I suppose (with the spanish, of course) we're always in a 
rush

Cheers

-- 
Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.

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