In a message dated 2/1/2005 4:47:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Shawn Burns" <s1burns at ucsd.edu> writes: > >Lots of French Canadians in Florida, from all reports. I've an aunt who >retired to Miami in the 70's. Perhaps there is an influence on the "Miami >dialect", although to be seriously confused with Canadian you'd have to be >shortening your dipthongs (ou's in particular). > >I like "unaccented Miami dialect". Everyone thinks they lack an accent. I >speak in an unaccented Canadian dialect; everyone around me speaks in a >California accent. It's the world that's crazy, not me. > >Shawn > > > And to have this a little on topic, when Vlad speaks to Svan, he points out that he could tell Vlad was from somewhere south, or when Vlad and Morrolan talk to the Cat Centaurs, they speak Dragaeran, but with out and accent (I am pretty sure that's what it says). Any other refrences to accents in Dragaera? -C