http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2005/12/peters_03_play.php Comments on Peters, Ellis: (03) Monk's Hood (radio play) en Copyright 2008 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:47:43 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.36 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jen Birren wrote on December 12, 2005 at 11:40 AM: <p>Welsh accents: this is a Known Issue- it's almost a stock joke about bad impressionists that they slip between Welsh and Indian. It's the rhythm, as you say, and also some of the intonations.</p> <p>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4328733.stm has a BBC journalist trying to track down some linguists to explain it.</p> http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2005/12/peters_03_play.php#c4267 Kate wrote on December 12, 2005 at 12:04 PM: <p>Jen, thanks for the link and the note--it's good to know that the similiarity isn't just a weird quirk of my ears.</p> http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2005/12/peters_03_play.php#c4268 Jean wrote on December 14, 2005 at 5:25 AM: <p>Apparently the explanation that it relates to the role of Welsh missionaries in the Indian subcontinent <a href="http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/16/16-824.html">is an urban myth</a></p> http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2005/12/peters_03_play.php#c4269