Date:  Sat, 12 Mar 1994 12:09:40 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET>

Subject: Re: Actors & Accent



Re Don Lance's comment on younger listeners not noticing the variability

in Costner's "British accent" in his Robin Hood, I suspect the familiar

factor of noticing that which is different and overlooking that which is

the same (the JFK "Cubar"/"vigah" syndrome) may be at work for people

focusing on the message content rather than the form (as linguists are

congenitally doomed to do).

    --Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)