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Anonymous
| ^^Standard. |
Anonymous
You'll need to preface "American English" with a region. Thank you. |
Anonymous
I agree - speak with the principal. I have a regional dialect that has some weird words, pronunciations and sentence structures that I worked to change when I left home and that I fall back into very easily during visits - and switch from when I'm anywhere else. Notice I didn't say "accent." I have tried to drop that, but it's not unusual for people from that area to place me, despite the fact that the weird/incorrect words are not being used. I can do the same. You can be regional and not be wrong. Axe is wrong and can easily be fixed. Same goes for library employees without college degrees in library science. If you work at a library, you should be taught pronounce it properly. It's not that hard. |
Anonymous
I certainly hope the clerks aren't leading children's story hour every week like this one was! |
Anonymous
This horrifies me. |
Anonymous
Yes. I took college courses from foreigners that I could not understand. It was awful. |
Anonymous
As a librarian this is making me cringe! |
Anonymous
She a children's librarian who runs storytime. I don't know why someone hasn't said something to her. It's a shame.
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Anonymous
| I ain't about to be cringin' at no liberians or Nazi spiders! |
Anonymous
| PP, it is so impressive to hear you make fun of the way other people (who probably have had fewer opportunities than you have) speak. Great role model for your kids. |
Anonymous
If these people with fewer opportunities went on to get college degrees and professional jobs, then they should have learned to speak like college graduates and professionals. Now if they didn't summer in provence, we can't expect them to speak French and be conversant in fine wines and gourmet cooking as adults, but we can still expect someone who qualified for a professional position to talk like a professional - that means no ain't and no axe and no he don't got none. |
Anonymous
I don't care about a pure american accent - whatever that is, but people need to be understandable when working with kids and if there are words they can't pronounce properly, they need to be be aware of what they are and make a point to try to be understood. |
Anonymous
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OP here. I am genuinely asking for tips on how to address this, because I am going to address this. I think it's unacceptable that a teacher would not speak grammaticaly correct English. We may expect nothing less from a qualified teacher, private school or public school. She is a teacher for children at a young age, who are learning to spell, the alphabet, phonetics etc. At least a quarter of the children in the class has English as a second language; they do not have an English-speaking environment at home and to them this teacher is one of the main people who teaches them consistently English.
"Axing" is simply incorrect, it's not an accent, it's a different word / verb: [dictionary]: to chop or trim wood with a sharp tool. "Asking" is used every 5 minutes in a classroom setting, this is not an exotic word like "Tyrannosaurus". I used to have a big, fat accent myself, and I am grateful to the elementary school teachers who corrected me (which I remember vividly), because I had no idea. In the situation described, it would be the other way around; unacceptable... |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Not really. There's Standard English, and then there are regional dialects. They're not equally valid in every situation. |