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 From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca 
  
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 Ryan P.  wrote: 
 >jon wrote: 
 >> One criticism I read years ago about Doctor Who, from an American was 
 >> that all the aliens had British accents which he found weird, I suppose 
 >> American accents would have been ok. 
 >> 
 > 
 >  Didn't that happen regularly in Star Trek: TNG? 
 > 
 >  A cultured British accent doesn't bother me one bit.  I quite enjoy 
 >it, actually.  Its whne you get do the more common (I suppose its common 
 >anyway) person's accent, that it gets a bit difficult to understand. 
 > 
 >  I think its the glottal stops and the dropping of parts of words. 
 >That makes it less appealing to the "masses." 
 > 
 >  For example, "so'of" instead of "sort of" in response to a question. 
  
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