junk
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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