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ChrisHenry15
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 11:47 am Post subject: |
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MotherF
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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Wayland wrote: |
I've actually noticed a few of my more advanced students have picked this up. They're the type of student who are enamored with English pop culture, so they spend 90% of the free time watching various youtube or twitch channels. They pick up a lot of spoken English habits which they then put into their writing.
So it's definitely out there. |
Using a few of these pragmatic particles also dramatically increases the perception of a students' English level by non-teacher interlocutors. So, you know, it is kind of like worth it to introduce students to things like that. |
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btsmrtfan
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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MotherF wrote: |
Wayland wrote: |
I've actually noticed a few of my more advanced students have picked this up. They're the type of student who are enamored with English pop culture, so they spend 90% of the free time watching various youtube or twitch channels. They pick up a lot of spoken English habits which they then put into their writing.
So it's definitely out there. |
Using a few of these pragmatic particles also dramatically increases the perception of a students' English level by non-teacher interlocutors. So, you know, it is kind of like worth it to introduce students to things like that. |
All the more reason to teach students more than one word to use and not permit them to continuously and repeatedly use the same word that only promotes and evidences their less than superlative English. |
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Curtinca
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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The "so" in the last sentence of Wayland's post (above) is quite proper, since the last sentence is a conclusion.
See, "So, there's a new bad English fad": http://waltwhitemansworld.blogspot.ca/2014/06/so-theres-new-bad-english-fad.html Excerpt: "...a forum for... wait for it... English teachers! 'So, I found a job in China, but now I changed my mind...'" |
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MuscatGary
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 1:45 am Post subject: |
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I think the practice of prefacing a question with the word 'question' to be far more annoying and peculiarly American. |
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blueberrymango
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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I don't notice it too much, but I think it's often used in the place of other fillers such as "umm" or "uhh".
"So... how's it going?"
"So... what have you been up to?"
"So... I think we should decide what we're having for dinner."
Other words that are used in that way include well and anyway.
The "valley girl" version of it would "like".
"Like, that movie was totally awesome!"
Except I think that the above example is not frequently heard anymore. It was common in the 90's. |
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blueberrymango
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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I found this quote from the link to be particularly intersting:
My guess is that there has been so much criticism, on WWW and elsewhere, of the use of "like" as a "pause word" that people who wish to sound as if they've advanced beyond primary school have settled on "so" as a "higher-class" alternative. They must think "So..." sounds better than "Like...". It doesn't! So, let's stop using "So..." at the beginning of a sentence to signify, "Hey, I'm gonna talk now." |
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scot47

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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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Like.....awesome.....dude ! |
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