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Author Topic: Bona Fides  (Read 14041 times)
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« Reply #30 on: August 03, 2007, 01:27:51 PM »

I know people who've taken classes in "accent reduction" because they want prejudice reduction.

My elementary school system sent me to speech therapy for four years to soften my rural Maryland water-person accent / speech patterns . . .  Of course, I still code-switch like no tomorrow.
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