Thursday 13 October 2011

How not to represent accents...

The Australian had to apologise rapidly for this basically racist representation of the speech of an Irish airline boss. The respelling is pretty broad even at the start - and when you come across the 'dialect' idioms later on, you realise this isn't your normal (or acceptable) reporting...

http://www.irishecho.com.au/2010/12/01/full-transcript-of-the-insulting-article/5822#.TpcbXjPoqGU.mailto