Re: World Wide Language

From: Rex H. McTyeire
Message: 849
Date: 2000-01-11

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I'se born down'air in ol' Geo'ja...an yall ain't gonna  sit ov'air an tell me we'uns talk
difernt! No siree bob. Ya Hear now! I'll jus take'en go over'ta the Libry en gets me some proof! Never in my born days have I heard such like.  En them good 'ol boys in Ahstrailyer ain't gonna like it too all fired much neither.  :-)
 
(Wow..My spelling verifier went bonkers on the above.)
Enjoying the discussion, folks. (I was born in south Georgia.)  Mark needs to
add Irish to his list (Scots, Anglican, American; So(u)thron, and Strine)
which makes it at least six.   New Englanders are also close....somehow they lose all
R's late in the word:  they don't park the car in Boston..they pahk the cah.
 
    I taught English to professional Turks and their children in Ankarra for a while ..usually one on one, or just one couple at a time.  My experience was the biggest problem seemed to be the scope of application of the vocabulary.   One simple case involved "stretch". The students (a husband and wife doctor team) had the concept down regarding rubber bands and underwear...but when I asked if they ever had to stretch the Chorba (soup) because of unexpected quests, or stretch their money to get through the month; they were  lost.  We all had a lot of fun with it, though. 
     My students were enrolled in an expensive program for professionals
who already had a good English fluency..but felt a need to polish it.  That is going on
all over the world....and to take the point back to an earlier thread:  I think there is already an international language of necessity identified..and whether it is the one we would prefer..or select in optimum circumstances..or not...it is English.  Here in Bucharest, most professionals speak good English..and if anyone speaks more than one language; the odds are English is included in the group.  It shocked me to find more English speakers here than Russian speakers.  
 
Please excuse an anth oriented non-linguists "observations".....
 
La Revedere;
Rex H. McTyeire
Bucharest, Romania
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