Emma
Is it possible to replace "fuelled" by "fed" ? Example : "the digital economy have fuelled an exponential growth in demand for data storage." Is it possible ? ( or is it ridiculous ?) Thank you in advance.
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It should, of course, be '...economy has fuelled', and I don't think you would say 'fed' here.
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It's definitely possible and in this case, either one works just as well. Two suggestions: - "fueled" only has one L - You'll want to use "has" instead of "have." "The digital economy" is singular, so it *has* fed or fueled growth. Sounds like this is part of an interesting conversation :)
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Interesting! Also the way she pronounces "matter" - northern. I was wondering about the American influence too. There is occasionally some slight rolling of the "r" in words with "er". Otherwise her accent is free US influence.
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Well, I've listened to - some of - the Australian session and I'm still only getting French in her accent (the light dental 't' sound, for example, as well as the intonation - such as in 'quantitive'). I would have expected some American influence there, given the time she spent in the States, but I didn't hear any. The only distinctive feature of Northern English I noticed was the 'u' sound in 'luck', for example. This particular phoneme is obviously absent from French, so a French person would have to decide whether to approximate closer to 'lack' or 'look'. In CL's case, the pronunciation is somewhat closer to 'look', which is maybe what creates a suggestion of Northern English. That's all I could pick up on, though.
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Su.Ki., it's interesting that at 6.57 mins, a viewer tweeted that her English was more "elegant" than the entire Australian cabinet. I really don't have a good judgment or a clear conclusion on her accent but would genuinely love to hear a longer analysis from you. And hopefully, fun for us apart, it would be useful for Emma as well.
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