Voice map finds American stresses not so loud.
British Library's Map Your Voice scheme records 10,000 English speakers and finds 'Americanisation' of speech may be a myth.
Mark Brown, Arts correspondent, The Guardian, Thursday 10 March 2011
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The future of the English language
Times Literary Supplement, 9 March 2011
Will English survive as a lingua franca, or will translation technology make it unnecessary? Kerstin Hoge In the British film Code 46 of 2003, the director Michael Winterbottom creates a visually and verbally hybrid world for a dystopian love story. Cityscapes are an architectural collage of Shanghai, Dubai and London’s Jubilee Line, simultaneously recognizable and alien, and are populated by speakers of a world language that mixes English with Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and Persian.
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