People in Diyarbakir told me I spoke Istanbulu Turkish. ( of course, my teachers were from Istanbul University, and METU and at one time I taught at Ege Universitesi In Diyarbakir all of that I think sounds very Western Turkish. )
Here in the US I can often tell if someone speaking on television is originally Canadian, even though the difference is very subtle.
But there are many actors from Britain and Australia who have such a perfect American accent that most people do not know they are not Americans if they don't read about it somewhere.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
