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From:storm
Date:1 Jun 2001 at 09:20:05
Subject:Re: Speaka Eengleesh

On 31-May-01, Clyde Hannan wrote:

> Don Cox wrote:
>>
>> On 30-May-01, David Rey wrote:
>>>> Andrew Crowe :
>>>> It will worth your while? Sounds Like SNK-Glish! :)
>>>
>>> /Bare/ with me, English is not my native language. ;)
>>
>> You guys from foreign parts write such good English that it's easy to
>> forget that it isn't your native language.
>
> (Speaking from Africa)
>
> That's cos the only international radio broadcast on Shortwave is BBC
> World or Voice of America - and all the English text books in the schools
> and libraries are all completely out of date and at least 50 years old. So
> we have been spared all that "cockney" and "scouser" gibberish. The only
> time we come across more colloquial language is when we try to understand
> just what the hell is being said by Eliza Doolittle - or The Beatles.

Right on the money. I went to school in Australia, England, South Africa
(nr. Jo'burg) and back home in Australia again. The teacher's in the
colonies tended to want to teach totally correct English, and there wasn't
as much bastardisation of it as there is in England.

South African's speak the best English actually (but with the funniest
accent), as most of the slang is in Afrikaans, even for mainly English
speaking ppl.

Did you know that the American accents of today are mainly the slightly
warped English accents of the time America was colonised... it's like a
time-bubble accent.

Totsiens,

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