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🇪🇺 Yet Another Owl🕯️🕊️Mar 16, 2025

DT thinks some accents are ‘beautiful’ — but why?

#english #englishes #accents #neutralAccents #naturalAccents #languages #linguistics

https://www.alternet.org/donald-trump-thinks-some-accents-are-beautiful-but-why/

Donald Trump thinks some accents are ‘beautiful’ — but why?

United States President Donald Trump has recently been commenting on accents while meeting foreign leaders and taking questions from foreign journalists. Trump praised British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s “beautiful” accent, saying he would have been president 20 years ago if he’d had that accent. ...

Alternet.org

Annette C. Boehm Mar 13, 2025

Insightful, heartening read by Mia You on (non) native English, (poetry) translation, and who owns language:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/1659311/poets-on-translation-the-alternative-speaker

"The English of possibility. The English in the imagination. The English reclaimed and reinvented by the (neo-)colonized speaker. You find a way to stretch the language to fit you and your stray prepositions."

#englishes #translation #poetry #language #MastoPoets