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"This stuff aboot the Canadian 'eh' is getting interesting, eh?" Boy that sounds like a terrible streotype of Canadian English. To tell you the truth, Lorikeet, your example sounds to me like something a Canadian would say. So , not suprisingly, the "eh" concept does indeed exist. Did Detroit ever h...

Sorry, forgot some of the more obvious ones :

"So, I here your date last night went REALLY WELL, eh?" (hunch, wink, I'm waiting for more info)

Well, I would guess that in order to find out whether it's the same "eh" or not, it would be most important to find out what it means semantically, when you say it? There are probably more than a dozen meanings to the "eh" that are very tough for others to use properly. "I was walking down the stree...

Oh, man. Not that!

If I wasn't typing my messages and were able to explain the difference verbally it would be so much easier, but I don't even know how to start explaining that on this forum.

Sound a lot like mine, except I say "eh".

"A lot depended on what we as learners did, and a lot less onus remained on the teacher's side." As Roger stated in his first posting, the aptitude of the students is the main decising maker regarding who comes out of a class with a better competency in L2. Although I humbly admit that I probably ha...

Larry, just curious, but how would you define your idiolect? Who would you compare it with? Just wondering.

I'm very relieved by your addition of the term 'broadly' when comparing "Canadian" to "American" English. Years of research by linguists have proven that the differences between the two (and the variations within each country) are indeed very numerous, too numerous to mention here. Please, excuse me...

"make a trip" (ie. the verb "make" combined with the object "a trip") is a combination I have honestly never head and if I saw examples in a book, I might be quick to explain that following the book's advice might lead to confusion. The verb 'make' does imply movement when added to examples such as ...

Metal56, It's great to see people discussing phonetics on this forum! I do have a question though Metal56,: in most IPA vowel lists, the schwa represents the sound "uh" which is the same sound used (in a North American accent) in words like 'alone', 'America', 'sofa', and yes in examples like 'tuna'...

I first heard that song about 7 years ago from their album "When I was born for the 7th Time". It was actually a fairly big hit in N.America. But seing as the band is British, they were always a much bigger success in the UK. Since then, they've come out with other albums but never came up with anot...

"Go fetch!"

I can't believe somebody would actually ask about the group Cornershop on this forum. Amazing!

Shun, let me tell you something, and I promise to calmy express what I'm about to say: I don't want to damage your ambition (entirely) from posting Shun, but I have to know : Why ask a question when you seem to already know the answer you desire? Is this some type of game show to you? Where you educ...

Yet another question to add to my list,

Languages have infinite ways of composing sentences. By listening to one person or two and imitating them, how do you learn how to compose and create independantly of what your "language model" has stated?