Date: Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 12:19 pm (UTC)
*lol* It's fascinating how language is always also linked with prestige, and how people try to avoid certain features while others remain almost unnoticed. Our lecturer told us an anecdote of having noticed Canadian raising in the idiolect of one of her friends from Canada, who was absolutely livid for her pointing it out in front of others. So weird.
Canadian raising sounds a bit Scottish to me, so I actually like it a lot.

I actually also like Northern US accents better than Southern ones. But that's me having trouble understanding the Southern drawl, I think. Watching Brokeback Mountain in the cinema (without subtitles, that is) was depressing! And not only for reasons of content.
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