Him and I

[bohcoo]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at ...> wrote:
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> "bohcoo" <sydenmill@> wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/37103>:
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> > I truly do enjoy 
> > listening to British accents - so elegant.
> 
> Whether a British accent is elegant depends on WHICH British accent it
> is. Cockney isn't SUPPOSED to sound elegant. I don't know the name of
> the related accent spoken by Londoners who didn't leave school until
> they were 18 or over, but to me it sounds adorable rather than
> elegant. Geoff, what is its name? The accent that Americans often
> mistake for Australian?

Bohcoo:
Well, hello Rita! Long time... hope all is well with you these days.

I thrill to words the same way others do to music, whether the words 
are written or spoken. True, *elegant* might not be an accurate 
description of the Cockney accent, but I still find the cadence and 
word choices interesting. 

Here in Florida we have "Crackers" whose most distinctive way of 
speaking is pure poetry of expression. I could listen all day. From the 
beauty of the language in the old timey movies to the unique 
grammatical stylings of rappers, all are intriguing to me.

I think that was one of the main attractions of the Harry Potter series 
to me:  JKR could describe things in surprisingly few words that 
somehow gave most of us the same mental picture. 

That is the magic of words.

Verbosely yours,
bohcoo
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