Text 19540, 87 rader
Skriven 2011-05-30 08:56:32 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 19521 av Stewart Arnett (3:772/100)
Ärende: Sense and sensibility
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30 May 11 17:11, Stewart Arnett wrote to Roy Witt:

 SA>>> Thank you for your comment above I understand your meaning but
 SA>>> don't write I have a lower level of reading skill than Robert, I
 SA>>> am far more able to wread the written English than he is able it
 SA>>> is my first language.;)

 RW>> LOL! Being your first language doesn't make you any better than
 RW>> Robert, whose first language is also English. Not to mention that
 RW>> your version of English isn't exactly kosher with the rest of the
 RW>> world's version. Yeah, I know. NZers speak your version, but the
 RW>> people of the formerly British ruled Hong Kong - Shanghi, speak
 RW>> English as if they learned it in Atlanta, Georgia - USA...

 SA> Er... Excuse me sir, But I will have you know I am English and not a
 SA> Ruddy Kiwi!

I didn't say you were Kiwi, but while we're on the subject; British
English is even worse!

 SA> Born 24th July 1949 at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in Norwich,
 SA> UK

Sorry about that.

 SA> And Educated at the Norwich School the Close Tombland, the same
 SA> school entertained Lord Nelson as one of it's junior pupils, well
 SA> before myself ;)

Oh, that's nothing. I went to the same schools attended previously by
Ulysses S. Grant and such other notables as Ronald Reagan and Spencer
Tracy.

 SA> Stewart

 SA> Ps, Hong Kong Chinese speak English with a Hong Kong accent (dialec)
 SA> all of their own,

Don't tell that to the Chinese there who speak perfected English.

 SA> I've never been wrong in telling a Chinaman he comes from Hong Kong
 SA> since I left the place in 1973, same as I can recognise a person from
 SA> Yanbian when they open their mouth to talk in The hangulmal. Ask
 SA> around in the Chinese and Korean restaurants and listen you will find
 SA> out I am correct

I ate at a chinese restaurant once, it was horrible. And then there were
the kitchen rats that tasted the food before it was even cooked.

 SA>  HK Chinese have their own dialect when a bunch of them are together
 SA> you will hear the diference it is not highly distinctive but it is
 SA> there.

I had a crew of Chinese working for me at a brass foundry in San Diego.
There was one fellow among them who spoke English, or at least he claimed
to be their spokesman. One Friday at quitting time, I fired him for not
doing his job right and the rest hopped to it when I gave them an order,
even though they pretended to not speak English. They must have known what
I was saying, as they did exactly what I wanted them to do after that.

 SA> Most Koreans speak 'merican English, as most of the english teachers
 SA> there studied with the Americans or in America other than the dozen
 SA> or so I have taught 'proper' English to.

Ahhh, so you're the guy who gave them the idea they could speak perfected
English...

 SA> Many are coming here to study English now as we are far less costly
 SA> compared to your schools and the education is as good if not better.

Until they try to apply that 'ruddy' English in the states.

 SA> The country is friendlier and safer for them and they can go camping
 SA> and out in the bush with no fear of nasties other than the South
 SA> Island sand flies.

Sand flies won't bother them much...they're used to sand flies.


                R\%/itt


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