As i was trying to point out earlier it's peoples misperceptions and preconceived notions that it's hard to overcome. There are many Southerners who speak with a cultured Southern accent, writers and intellectuals with impeccable grammar but because they have a Southern accent many Northerners in places like Boston and New York (some of whom have terrible grammar..not just an accent) label them as ignorant Rednecks..especially in Movies and TV. :angry:
Having grown up in Massachusetts, and spending most of my military career down south, (NC & VA), I know exactly what you're talking about.
Roel wrote And as Oscar Wilde said: "the moment one Englishman speaks another one despises him" - accents in England have an adverse effect sometimes :lol: Grieg wrote A couple of years ago a Spanish exchange student started coming to my local (that's regular pub to non-native English speakers) with her English co-student. One of the guys fell madly in love and tried chatting her up. He started with "Spanish-accented English sounds sooo sexy, does English-accented Spansih sound sexy to Spaniards? I speak Spanish." She just looked at him, said "All English accents sounds ugly" and walked off leaving him devastated.
