Originally posted by Arvind Birla:
which language of India does this map to that causes this to categorized as 'localized' English ?
Originally posted by Jeanne Boyarsky:
originally posted by Joanne Neal:
I'm going to visit with my friend.
Just curious: what would the correct way of saying it be in the UK?
Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
having been taught BE in high school
Well, as a native English speaker I would say there are some differences between "I'm going to visit my friend" and "I'm going to visit with my friend". But it would be difficult for me to explain just what they are. I think perhaps the latter would be for a more personal type of visit, or perhaps a longer visit.Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
Not that I'm a native English speaker, but having been taught BE in high school, the with is extraneous. Just "I'm going to visit my friend."
Originally posted by Paul Clapham:Just like I can't explain why a house burns down in English and a piece of paper burns up.
Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
Not that I'm a native English speaker, but having been taught BE in high school, the with is extraneous. Just "I'm going to visit my friend."
Originally posted by Pat Farrell :
is BE the same as The Queen's English?
Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
Don't know, I'm not familiar with that term. I thought it is what's commonly known as "Oxford English" ... but I guess now I'm not sure about that either :-(
Originally posted by Paul Clapham :
Well, as a native English speaker I would say there are some differences between "I'm going to visit my friend" and "I'm going to visit with my friend".
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That has been true of recent decades. There's talk about changing it in the future to be based instead on the King's English.Originally posted by Pat Farrell:
is BE the same as The Queen's English?
Originally posted by Frank Silbermann:
That has been true of recent decades. There's talk about changing it in the future to be based instead on the King's English.
I'm a British English speaker by birth but I've been a North American English speaker for the last 50 years. Occasionally I have met people who can tell that by listening to me, but usually I sound North American. But some things are learned earlier than others: for example I still can't use the word "gotten", which exists in NAE but not in BE.Originally posted by Jeanne Boyarsky:
You mean as a native British English (or any place other than the USA) speaker right? I'm a native English speaker too, but it's native American English.
Originally posted by Paul Clapham:
I'm a British English speaker by birth but I've been a North American English speaker for the last 50 years. Occasionally I have met people who can tell that by listening to me, but usually I sound North American
Originally posted by Mike Simmons:
Also often known as BBC English by people who haven't actually listened to many BBC programs (excuse me, programmes) recently. Anyway, the notion of a single standard of English usage and pronunciation seems to be, ummm, poppycock. Or bollocks.
No. At least, I spent three weeks in Britain this May and it didn't have any effect.Originally posted by Pat Farrell:
Does it come back? If you spend a summer in England, do you revert? At least enough that when you get back on this side of the pond, you sound English again?
Yes, there are. I spent three weeks in the north of England and Scotland this spring and the number of regional accents was quite amazing. There was one old Cumbrian who we could hardly understand, but mostly there wasn't a problem.Originally posted by Pat Farrell:
I thought that folks in Brittan had a lot of usage and pronouciations that vary both by location and by class. Not that my American ears can pick it up.
Originally posted by Paul Clapham:
No. At least, I spent three weeks in Britain this May and it didn't have any effect.
Originally posted by Mike Simmons:
Perhaps New Yawkas do not usually have time for this sort of thing.
Let's not be too cavalier about grouping all other countries (I assume you meant English-speaking countries) together in this respect. Canadian English, for example, has plenty of influence from both UK and US English, as well as a few distinctives of its own, eh?.
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Originally posted by ankur rathi:
To me, 'I am going to visit my friend' is 'I am going to meet my friend' and 'I am going to visit with my friend' is 'I am going somewhere (depending on the context) with my friend'.
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Originally posted by Zhou Feng:
Everyone is different in this world.
There are all kinds of people everywhere.
Originally posted by Zhou Feng:
Everyone is different in this world.
There are all kinds of people everywhere.
Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
Yes, we are all individuals.
Joanne
Why "half an hour" is correct ?
Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
Do you mean the extra "n"? That's because the "h" in "hour" is silent, so the next letter after "a" is for all practical purposes a vowel. Having the "n" there makes it easier to pronounce.
"The cow is a successful animal. Also he is quadrupud, and because he is
female, he give milk,but will do so when he is got child.He is same like
God,sacred to Hindus and useful to man.But he has got four legs together.
Two are forward and two are afterwards.
His whole body can be utilised for use. More so the milk. What can it do?
Various ghee, butter,cream, curd, why and the condensed milk and so forth.
Also he is useful to cobbler, watermans and mankind generally.
His motion is slow only because he is of asitudinious species. Also his
other motion is much useful to trees, plants as well as making flat cakes in
hand and drying in the sun. Cow is the only animal that extricates his feeding
after eating. Then afterwards she chew with his teeth whom are situated in
the inside of the mouth. He is incessantly in the meadows in the grass.
"His only attacking and defending organ is the horn, specially so when he is
got child. This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapons
to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great
velocity forwards.He has got tails also, but not like similar animals. It has hairs on the
other end of the other side. This is done to frighten away the flies which
alight on his cohoa body whereupon he gives hit with it.
The palms of his feet are soft unto the touch. So the grasses head is not
crushed. At night time have poses by looking down on the ground and he shouts
his eyes like his relatives, the horse does not do so. This is the cow."
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