Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Law and Order and Dialects, Oh my!

So the cast was watching a law and order rerun- a cop (please note, not a specialist) detected a slight glottal stop in a suspect's BRITISH dialect, which lead him to believe he spoke an asiatic language, and after making the suspect read the name of a single taiwanese restauraunt, determined that the suspect spoke taiwanese with a chinese accent and had clearly spent time in a specific prison in taiwan, populated with chinese people. duh. There was of course no need to clarify between mandrin, cantonese or other (they didn't want to pander to the masses). Of course, I could do that... right?

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