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scot47
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| King George IV could have solved things by moving the seat of government from London to Philadelphia. |
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LPKSA
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| Mushkilla wrote: |
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| I tell that the world over, even in Europe, the overwhelming majority of ESL students want to learn American English. |
Really?
Are you saying that the Hillbilly English is better than British English? 
George Bernard Shaw one day said:
“The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language.”
But the problem now is that the USA and UK are separate by two version of English! This is all the fault of Noah Webster, who wanted the Americans to distant themselves from the British English, and he established the American English dictionary which was described by the British as the "wrong spelling" of English!
I see the difference between American English and British English like the difference between gas and petrol! |
To be honest, I find Kentucky and backwoods Louisiana English to be more pleasant on the ears than say, Jordie English (both equally horrendous). |
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plumpy nut
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| Oxford English is English spoken in London and American English is basically English spoken in Iowa. There's a greater difference between London and Birmingham, than say between London and the Midwest in the U.S. |
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peripatetic_soul
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 3:14 pm Post subject: Reacting to Foreign Places |
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Based on my 25+ years of ESL/EFL teaching experience and no judgment intended, those Americans who speak with a strong so'then "drah-aal" or hillbilly English are not recruited as ESL teachers. Also, many true so'then'ers don't care for the heavily nasalized northern dialects of the Yankees (as I have been told). It's all a matter of perception and subjective preferences. We all know that no one truly speaks "standard" English or the "standard" form of any language. If we all spoke the same dialect and accent, it would be a rather boring world, n'est-ce pas?
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Mushkilla
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Oui bien sur, honey! |
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