Deepa Mohan wrote:
Indeed I tend to agree with Rishab;
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i just returned from 2 weeks in china, where the english - where it
appears - can be even stranger. but i found the original article pretty
silly, as it somehow assumes japan _should_ be caref
By "native english" UK speaker, I guess you mean BBC English?
You're going to find glaswegian, scouse or other accents from all over
the map there, but not BBC English.
CJK area engrish is fun, and sometimes quite comprehensible. So is
singlish (you just have to add "lah" to just about every sent
Indeed I tend to agree with Rishab; I think that there are already many dialects of English in existence, one often incomprehensible to the speakers of another. I can make myself understood in the northern states of the US but the way English is spoken in the southern States defeats me completely.
i just returned from 2 weeks in china, where the english - where it appears -
can be even stranger. but i found the original article pretty silly, as it
somehow assumes japan _should_ be careful about english. sure, they teach all
kids bad english. how many schools in an english speaking country
"Thaths" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.timwerx.net/language/englished.htm
This makes for a pretty entertaining experience when viewing movies or anime
in the original Japanese: particularly little 'Engrish' idosyncrasies like
adding -o, -to, -do, or -u, -tu, -du, etc. to English wor
http://www.timwerx.net/language/englished.htm
It was a hot, steamy day in the summer of 1976 when I got my first
taste of English here. I was walking along one of the streets of Osaka
when a young voice called out loud and clear: "A, B, C!" I looked over
to the other side of the street where a sm
