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Old 08-18-2009, 10:55 PM   #160 (permalink)
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But you dont have a thick accent, it's a pleasant soft one which is best in both Aussies and Kiwis. It's the thick heavy ones that are bad, which is true for most accents.
There are no bad accents. Language is like a social contract where in a way everyone agree to use the same words to mean the same thing and pronounce them the same way. Just because the pronunciation is different from what you expect doesn't make it BAD.
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