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Wed 31 May, 2006 12:58 am
HELLO AL L
WHO KNOW THE DIFFERENT BETWEEN US&UK SPOKEN ENGLISH??
mysweetheart--
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Your short question opens up a broad topic. The differences among English speakers of different countries are as great as those of Chinese people from different parts of China.
I think the Chinese have a big advantage on this one, Noddy. When they don't understand a dialect, they know about it right away. You can listen to the English, and Aussies for quite a while before you realize you haven't the slightest idea what they are talking about.
A good example of a huge difference between the two - my friend (yes it is really my friend not me) - went on her first trip to England all by herself. After her first day, she went to the B&B where she was staying. It was evening and needed to use the toliet. She asked the person at the B&B where he directed her to the bathroom. Upon opening the door she discovered it was a bathroom (bathtub - no toliet). She was so embarassed she simply went to bed without peeing and held it until the morning.
Linkat wrote:A good example of a huge difference between the two - my friend (yes it is really my friend not me) - went on her first trip to England all by herself. After her first day, she went to the B&B where she was staying. It was evening and needed to use the toliet. She asked the person at the B&B where he directed her to the bathroom. Upon opening the door she discovered it was a bathroom (bathtub - no toliet). She was so embarassed she simply went to bed without peeing and held it until the morning.
Well how unusual, to have a bath in a bathroom. :wink:
That is why my friend was so embarassed - to the point that she won't go back and ask for the toliet.
I hear you, linkat. When I was in Germany, back when the earth was much younger, I learned to specify a room with a bath. This wasn't something you wanted to assume in the no star hotels I frequented. Sure enough - bath, but no toilet.
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Re: SPOKEN ENGLISH
mysweetheart wrote:HELLO AL L
WHO KNOW THE DIFFERENT BETWEEN US&UK SPOKEN ENGLISH??
American English tends to depend on the part of the USA, you're from. Namely, New Yorkers don't sound like Americans from the South.
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