Does Learning A New Language As A Missionary Ever Alter One’s Accent For The Rest Of Their Life?

[Father Francis]

Dan's ersatz Mid-Atlantic accent is something he consciously created. Perhaps it was to set him apart from his peers in academia and in Mormonism. In Mopologetics,

Funny thing to imitate an accent that was consciously created to sound authoritative. My son and I like to have conversations with a Mid-Atlantic accent. He's 19 and he's been writing conlangs since he was 10. I never thought I would have arguments with a teenager about phonemes.

[Moksha]

Why didn't Dr. Peterson try to approximate an Oxford accent? Was it to prevent his BYU fellows from thinking he participated in high tea?

[Everybody Wang Chung]

I just came back from having dinner with one of DCP's former BYU colleagues. I had to bring up DCP's fake accent and what people in DCP's department thought about it.

He said they all just thought it was an intentional accent used as an attempt by DCP to sound educated and important. When I told my friend that DCP had recently appeared on a podcast and explained to the host that his accent was the result of learning perfect German on his mission almost 50 years ago, my friend just laughed and laughed.

He also said that DCP's dishonesty (2014 sabbatical for pay in exchange for DCP's promise use that time to finish two books) has made it more difficult to get sabbaticals approved. We've seen this type of behavior over and over from DCP (his reckless, dishonest and childish behavior negatively affecting others) time and time again.

[Moksha]

He also said that DCP's dishonesty (2014 sabbatical for pay in exchange for DCP's promise use that time to finish two books) has made it more difficult to get sabbaticals approved. We've seen this type of behavior over and over from DCP (his reckless, dishonest and childish behavior negatively affecting others) time and time again.

BYU should have accepted Dr. Peterson's blog posts and his unbroken chain of getting Interpreter articles published every Friday as the equivalent of two scholarly books. Without those Interpreter articles, we never would have learned about the essential dishonesty and underhanded behavior of the Joseph Smith Papers Project and how Mormonism is proved true with Bayes' Theorem.

Could any other professor at BYU match those accomplishments?

[Everybody Wang Chung]

My niece just received her mission call to Frankfurt, Germany. I've been teasing her all week not to learn perfect German or she will have a strange accent for the rest of her life.