[Magdalen] Pistorius Trial.

[Roland Orr]

Same in uk - an hour day
Roland

On 12/09/2014 17:58, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
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> There has been very heavy USA media coverage of this trial
> which seems to have dragged on forever.
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> Yesterday there were comments during this TV coverage from
> five different South Africans, both black (the judge) and white,
> (including Pistorius).
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> The judge was only partially comprehensible to me, but I suspect
> that for her, maybe English is a second language (?)
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> The other four were variably understood by me, probably secondary
> to some very unusual (to me) vowel pronunciation.
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> I had forgotten that South Africa has its own strong regional accent,
> as I keep lumping South Africans in with Aussies and New Zealanders.
> If these five on the news are any indication, my assumptions are
> obviously simplistic.
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> David Strang - Struggling with his own Great Northern Cities Vowel  Shift.
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