Date sent: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 07:32:26 EST
Subject: Re: Solvejg's Song Pronounciation
To: vocalist
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

In a message dated 2/8/00 10:37:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, bmill07-at-ibm.net
writes:

<< Yes, I have found myself having to work to get past a level of annoyance
when I hear non-English-speaking singers sing with a very heavy accent
(just as a German-speaking student I knew admitted she was annoyed hearing
American singers butchering German), and
>>

I have not found this. Foreign speakers are annoyed at the accent when
english speakers sing in their language. When foreign speakers sing english
with an accent, Americans tend to find this "charming".