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2009年3月9日星期一

[澎湖民宿。夏天來了民宿] Life and Language (South) (Part 3 of 12)

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簡介/舊報明細

•Life and Language (South) (Part 3 of 12)
•GAS STATIONS
•The Day's Phrase
•活動訊息

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Life and Language (South) (Part 3 of 12)

Humorist Mark Twain once said that a Southerner "talks music," referring to the speech
patterns of those south of the Mason-Dixon line. They converse s-l-o-w-l-y,
actually waiting until the other person has finished speaking before responding. "Southerners
tend to allow a slightly longer pause between the turns in a conversation, when one person
stops talking and another starts," adds Bill Kretzschmar, director of the linguistics program at
the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. "In the North there is a shorter pause, so
conversations tend to go back and forth perceptibly faster."

幽默大師馬克•吐溫曾說南方人「出口成樂」，所指的就是在美國昔日南北分界線——Mason-Dixon Line 以南之人們的談話模式。他們說話時慢條斯理，直等對方談話告一段落後，才開始答腔。美國喬治亞州雅典市的喬治亞大學語言學系系主任——比爾•克茲馬爾補充說：「南方人交談時，習慣在對方說完話後，停頓較長時間，才開始說話。在北方，此一停頓時間較短，因此交談時，對應的往來就明顯地較快。」

☉Word Bank
Mason-Dixon line (n phr) 美國昔日之南北分界線，分於Pennsylvania與Maryland 之間
perceptibly (adv) 明顯地；顯而易見地

GAS STATIONS

Don't get confused while filling up at a gas station in America
在美國加油站加油時，可別搞錯喔

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The Day's Phrase

I'll exercise daily... starting tomorrow.
我將天天運動... 從明天開始.

活動訊息

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