應學英國還是美國英文

FattyDaddy

flashingcat 發表於 13-7-4 20:29
國際學校咁貴都要排長龍, 仲大把人爭, 佢話香港睇黎應該超越咗nyc

Can't really compare that way, because most New Yorkers don't avoid local schools like the plague {:1_1:}

FattyDaddy

luingan 發表於 13-7-5 13:13
都唔係架，同香港差唔多，grade 5 要出去補習，爭入好嘅middle school, or move all the way to long islan ...

We're not talking about money or school fees, but the behaviour of flocking to international schools. Now we don't see New Yorkers beating down the door to enter British German French Japanese Korean and gasp even Singapore international schools, do we {:1_1:}

FattyDaddy

luingan 發表於 13-7-5 13:50
hkers consider IS = good private school...

HAHA, I think there is more to it than that, but you are entitled to your opinion {:1_1:}

FattyDaddy

Hmm, seems this discussion is going off on a tangent, from accents to local schools vs international schools and then public local schools vs private local schools.

Well, exit time, for me anyway {:1_1:}

FattyDaddy

shadeslayer 發表於 13-7-6 10:47
我係比 love actually 同 America's got talent 的英國主持，引導我認為英國音在美國受歡迎，唔知啱唔啱。

It goes much further back than that, if we watch old US movies, especially those made before the 1950's, we would discover that most of the posh and cultured characters talk with Brit-like accents. This phenomenon occurs in old Disney cartoons too, e.g. Snow White (1937), Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951), Sleeping Beauty (1959) etc, all the kings and queens and nobility and gentry sound very Brit.

Nowadays Americans may no longer associate Brit-like accent with nobility, but it still carries a certain exotic quality. In North America, orientals speaking with local accents (or oriental accents) are a dime a dozen, but a Brit sounding oriental really throws people off, just like we would be thrown off by a gwailo talking Cantonese with a ChiuChow accent (think 李嘉誠), it would be an amusing quality that might make an employer remember a certain applicant better.

Good to see this thread going back to discussing accents.

FattyDaddy

shadeslayer 發表於 13-7-6 12:43
Like the difference between Regina and Audrey's accents.

Regina's accent is very Hongkong, she is like a grammatically correct version of Mr Chai (our breast)

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Mighty 發表於 13-7-8 08:15
I am thinking the same!! And always wonder why her English accent/pronounciation is so Hong Kong.

Regina had a very Hongkong education, went to Hongkong University, and many adults can't shake off an accent they devrloped in their childhood, assuming she wants to shake it off {:1_1:}