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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:35 pm
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 7:26 pm
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 2:47 am
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:51 am
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Quote: I agree. The English language has been bastardized and given different dialects to make it sound almost exotic. Look at the Irish. I love them with all of my heart, but their 'native' language is not English...it's Galeic (pardon my spelling...) Technically, don't the people of England hold the deed to the 'English' language? I do not know...please, help me out on this one if you would, I would really like to know.
Well at the moment we're doing the best we can to ruin it. It's a very sad fact, but I was the only in the top set english class who knew what 'futile' meant. I mean, come on! Futile is no a hard word, but eveidently some people (who are supposed to be the best in my year) had some problems with it.
There is so much slang everywhere nowadays, it's pretty much it's own sub-language.
English is the most widelyl used language in the world, but I don't think that it represents England, and as The Mousy spell-checker said, it's the localised slang that shows the culture.
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 8:20 am
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:32 am
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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:16 am
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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 12:46 pm
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You all make such great points that I have to agree with all of you. One thing - I don't see how English can be used to define a country like the US which, let's face it, is a "melting pot" society. If anything, some people's insistence on foreigners speaking only English (not everyone says this, but quite a few think it...) when they are in this country says more about us than anything else. When I hear this, I always ask one question. "If you were invited to Paris, would you expect all the Parisians to speak English?" The answer is invariably "No. I would make some attempt to learn enough French to get by." I have no problem with people speaking their own languages. But English as a definition of a country? No. I actually believe that we tend to force English on others. Rather than us making an attempt to better understand them, that is. I do hate to say, though, that I tend to disregard people offhand who use ebonics-like speech. To me, it is a foriegn language, it's useless and unnecessary. Let's start teaching kids how to speak their native tongue first (if it IS English) and not bother with this other crap. Just my opinion. smile
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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 1:31 pm
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 12:09 pm
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