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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:25:12 GMT+0
From: And Rosta <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Lojban Accent
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> Charles Hope <xodmail@netscape.net>
> 
> I'm sure that people have done doctoral theses on how the elements of a native
> language create that person's accent when they speak another language. 

Not to my knowledge, though coincidentally I had coffee this morning 
with someone doing his thesis on the German accent (when speaking 
English),

> Thus, there must be a way to figure out how a native Lojban speaker would 
> accent their English.

But there is no native Lojban accent. More generally, there is no 
Lojban accent: that is, it's not possible to say to someone "You have 
a good/bad accent when you speak Lojban".

--And.