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    <em>@ Irene : " Her videos had seemed prescriptive to me, but in a way that seemed to be part of the schtick. "</em><em> </em><em> ____ </em>You've got to be so gifted a writer and much else besides to be able to put it down with such eloquence, articulacy and intellect. ( Bravos ringing out ).

    Yeah, I'm fully in the know that italki sponsors English with Lucy, how blithely promotional, not belittling but valorizing.. Lol. And how bitterly ironic the mockery, as though the supposed situation caricaturing unto itself.

    Lucy here, putting her thoughts out to the test some 4 years back, " American English can be quite different but just as beautiful ". How opinionated of her, Lol.


    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5NC9yyTeZ8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5NC9yyTeZ8</a>
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    June 11, 2020
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    @ Nikola : For one, I do downrightly respect your opinion without any reservations. Also, I legitly respect her readiness to apologize for supposedly gentrifying the raw inflections. I just had to put in my two cents' worth, which I did. Also, determinedly I agree that the buck stops with her.


    Thanks : )
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    June 9, 2020
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    @ Abdalá : Yes, I'm misinterpreting along with her ' still intact ' 4 million subscribers and DailyMail. We'll have to bear up with the dogmatic simpletons, halfwits like me frequenting this forum.

    You dutifully keep telling everyone that they've misinterpreted:

    " <em>@ Abdalá to</em> @ <em>Karen: What has been called out is not teaching RP but rather putting down other accents while doing so</em>. "

    <em>@ Karen: We need to hone our comprehension skills and bring it up to a B1 level as @ Abdalá already managed. Patronizing ?</em>

    Some clues for you: Dari Farsi, Tajiki Farsi, Irani Farsi. And what absolute authority is defining equable standards here, what's standard linguistical parse for one dialect might be ruled as inadmissible, forswearing its validity to the other. And what about the Parisians mocking the Quebecan French accent of Canada.


    <em>@ David: " Teacher A says speak this way because it is “correct ".. Teacher B, it makes you sound “intelligent”.. Both equally offensive " </em>___ Exactly! _ The Dilemma _ So judging by these merits teaching RP or for that matter any singular accent as the ' correct ' one equates as being inherently repudiating and obliquely dismissive of the validity of other ' standard pronunciations ', while unreservedly debunking some minority, mostly unpatronized dialects and accents as nonstandard.The African American vernacular, Southern country accents and Caribbean English would fall into that category, to name a few.


    Synopsis: Asserting an equate of sounding professional and intelligent with acquiring of a posh British accent does sound outlandishly ignorant.

    But for all that, I'd allow myself the chivalrousness to reflect that she might've merely spurted that out in her predisposed professional naivety, completely forgivable.

    No! We can't be teaching the teachers to teach 5 different standard pronunciations to pupils all of the time, ( British, US, Australian, Kiwi, South African ). US and the Queen's English ( British) would do for obvious reasons.
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    June 9, 2020
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    @ Phil: " <em>I’ve always considered Lucy’s “don’t say X” videos to be of extremely limited value to English learners.</em> " __ That's solely reflective of a culturally subjective view; at best scantily endorsed by her more than 4 million ardent followers and the learned English editors at DailyMail, who'd as an afterthought hitherto not be adjudged as being unintelligent and unprofessional for subscribing to her views, I guess.

    ___ " <em>Anyhow, she takes a word with several different pronunciations used by </em><em>native speakers</em><em>, and then proceeds to tell us only one of them is correct</em>. " ___ Be that as it may. Nonstandard by her British accent coaching standards. And what do you make of the Midwesterners looking down upon the Southern accents or the Southern drawl. Or the urban groomed yuppies identifying with a posh accent as being a metropolitan imperative, mocking the ' unlettered ' boonies' accent here in the US. The British sovereign, or the Queen's English don't enjoy a set monopoly in linguistic biases rooted in cultural subjectivity.

    Touting plumb naive personal preferences as a British imperial transgression isn't vindicative of exhibitionist American drive for cultural dominance.

    And would it be gauged aside as so out of touch with reality to suggest that a posh British accent is deemed ' first-rate ' across the US as well, even when it serves as a stark reminder of the sovereign's rule.

    Isn't the British accent always vilified by Hollywood movies ? Is that not politically motivated? Haven't we always been rubbing it in their faces?


    ___ "<em> English spelling is etymological, not phonetic.</em> " ___ And that's the mantra Lucy keeps repeating to her pupils at the expense of repetition.


    ___ " <em>using English stress patterns, rhythm and intonation</em>. " Now.. Where would that place the African American Vernacular or the Caribbean English speakers?



    Attitudes towards social U.S. English accents



    <a href="https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=15450&context=rtd" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=15450&context=rtd</a>
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    June 9, 2020
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    @ Nikola: For one your argument ostensibly comes across as inherently conflicted while trying not to be, I guess, " <em>We don't really know the extent of the fuss, do we? For all we know, she might have received </em><em>a few messages</em><em> saying</em>... " and " <em>Her apology could be a result of </em><em>mass hysteria</em>.. " don't gel together as complementing in the moulding of an argument.

    Equating sounding professional and intelligent with acquiring of a posh British accent does sound outlandishly ignorant to me though.

    Having said that I'd allow myself the chivalrousness to reflect that she might've just spurted that out in her predisposed professional naivety and not as an ethno-cultural, much less a jingoistic or racial slur.

    In my unassuming view she was not being cocky, just trying to be the best teacher as she always does.

    And Yes, she is being named and shamed across the world-wideness of the internet.

    For instance on this italki thread!

    And this Youtube roasting:


    Prejudice in the ELT industry | Why we need change


    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4no4dbbJZw&app=desktop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4no4dbbJZw&app=desktop</a>

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    June 9, 2020
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  • Commented

    @David: You always impress me. This time too with the ' Matrix ' spin to the monster of threat perception at large.
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    June 8, 2020
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  • Commented

    A Repentant Free Fall of Freedom of Speech

    Just checked Ms. Lucy out on English with Lucy to discover what an adorable, glossily engaging and learned English teacher that she is without a moot. She did, going by her clichéd<em> country blonde </em>looks come across as an American <em>bimbo </em>to me for a passing impression, not long after, the moment of realization though allowing itself a sink in, <em>Alice in wonderland</em> style. That's to say that maybe she's being prejudiced against, prejudged over the issue at ' face value '.

    I think she just happened to be caught off guard addressing legit concern in a pretentiously politically correct world.

    A stark throw back to me of how ZImbabwe managed to wreck and deface its cricket under the smouldering political rhetoric of favoring favouritism over plain merit.

    Totally agreeing with @ Karen there.

    That's what the RP pupils are paying you for: To coach them in talking like a native.


    Thanks :)
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    June 8, 2020
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  • Answered
    " Not all graphic novels are for kids. Some of the drawings can be gritty and realistic. " Gritty here would mean, ' bold as in discerned suitable for adult consumption '. " It's very smart and sophisticated. " Sophisticated here would mean, ' intricate and subtle '. Thanks : )
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    June 7, 2020
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    It's either option (A). Spread out as in thinned out, scattered across a wide area. Or Option (B) in this formation: " Now, sea birds hunt and eat fish and, well, their food can be hard to find because their food sources - ARE - spread out over a large expanse of water. " Let's spin it for an opposite: An abundance of prey for the soaring pelicans as the food sources now spread out over a large expanse of water. Otherwise a ' spread out " could mean a ' sprawling, an expanse over a large area. So the only thing keeping the context intact for option (B) is the preceding laying of backdrop. Thanks : )
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    June 7, 2020
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    For the difference: @ Lyn, described it beautifully. This is in answering to the latter part of the post. You could say you found that movie to be poignant, touching or ' melodramatic ' in some instances. You empathize ( can relate to, can identify with ) with the feelings of certain characters, or you sympathize ( not necessarily identifying with a sentiment yet agreeing with its validity nonetheless ) with the underlying message of the movie. Thanks : )
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    June 7, 2020
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