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is calling American pronunciation lazy. It is not "lazy", damn it! It's the American accent, and there is NOTHING inherently wrong with it. Americans don't pronounce T in the middle of a word as D because they're too "lazy" to do otherwise. They do it because that's what they've grown up hearing so, hey, that's what they do. You know what? I bet it's very hard for the British to pronounce the T as a D sound. It's probably easier for them to say it as a T. Does this mean they're "lazy"? No, it means they say it that way because that's what they grew up hearing!

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About the Etta thing, I think that if you're going to expect the Americans with whom you live to speak like the British, you should give it up.