Timeline for Is it acceptable to mark off or comment on someone's presentation based on their non-standard English accent?
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| Jun 10, 2020 at 14:12 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 6, 2019 at 14:56 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @PaŭloEbermann: not entirely consistent no, since English spelling is so irregular. "ghoti" could be pronounced either like "goatee" or, stretching a point, like "fish". But you can guess within the ballpark of the pronunciation of unknown English words, and if you make some simplifying assumptions about the most common pronunciations of various letter combinations, you can do the same for collections of letters that aren't English words. It won't be "correct", I just mean it as the extreme edge of what happens when you speak a foreign language and literally don't cultivate any accent! | |
| Nov 6, 2019 at 0:35 | comment | added | Paŭlo Ebermann | @SteveJessop Is there even a way of consistently pronouncing unknown words in an "English" way? | |
| Nov 5, 2019 at 0:30 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | Fundamentally, if you are speaking a language that is not your first, you probably won't try to develop an accent that will pass "undetected" by a native speaker, but you must do some work on pronunciation. Whether that work is part of what the questioner is supposed to be grading is another issue on top of that, of course. | |
| Nov 5, 2019 at 0:26 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | Or for another thought experiement: suppose that you are presenting in French, in France, and for reasons best known to yourself and your high school French teacher, you have never made any attempt to pronounce French words the way French people do, instead you speak as if reading English words spelled the way the French words are. Someone in your French audience says they don't understand you. Which (or both) of you is taking a racist attitude to the whole business? | |
| Nov 4, 2019 at 8:23 | history | answered | Tasos Papastylianou | CC BY-SA 4.0 |