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Janet Laible (laible@minerva.cis.yale.edu) wrote:
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|>Hmmm...Janet, Dan is from Texas and although his accent doesn't come across that
|>much, you don't really have a similar accent at all, atleast as far as I can
|>tell.  What made you think that? :-)
|>
|>Sean 
|>

|Probably because he's toned down the accent he grew up with so that white
|middle-class America won't think he's some kind of a hick. We do have similar
|accents, absolutely bland enough so that everyone knows "where we stand in
|the power structure." You've got one too, by the way.

Ohhhhh, I like that "where we stand in the power structure".  But really, you 
don't sound like him in my opinion and neither do I.  Though there is a 
difference between how one speaks with family and close friends back home 
like in Kansas as opposed to elsewhere.  If that's what you are referring
to fine.


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