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Skriven 2011-06-01 18:52:45 av Stewart Arnett (3:772/100)
  Kommentar till text 19540 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Sense and sensibility
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Hello Roy.

30 May 11 08:56, you wrote to me: as a saecond reply !!

 RW> 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,
 SA>>>> I am far more able to wread the written English than he is able
 SA>>>> it 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
 RW>>> that your version of English isn't exactly kosher with the rest
 RW>>> of the world's version. Yeah, I know. NZers speak your version,
 RW>>> but the people of the formerly British ruled Hong Kong -
 RW>>> Shanghi, speak English as if they learned it in Atlanta, Georgia
 RW>>> - USA...

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

 RW> I didn't say you were Kiwi,(you insinuated it) but while we're on the
 RW> subject;
 RW> British
 RW> English is even worse!

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

 RW> 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 ;)

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

Sorry about that you poor thing, a failed general and two bad actors for
guidance. No comparison at least Nelson won a battle or three.

 SA>> Stewart

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

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

You won't find them as natives in Hong Kong only the imports. You've never been
there to find out.

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

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

Must have been an American one, probably run by mexicans with funny eyes.

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

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

I've had similar with Koreans, but the other way round, I will always remember
when a group of K.Y.C.F (Korean Young Christian Fellowship) Members were
visiting for a BBQ at my house, I always have Korean lodgers living here. One
of them got up to have cigarette outside end left the "Ranch Slider" open and
another of them yelled out for him to close the ranch slider as it was making
it draughty in Korean, I got up and closed it, then my lodger mentioned I was
fluent in Korean, they were very quiet for a while as they had been talking
about me in their own language, I hadn't bothered to mention I understood what
they were saying!

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

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

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

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

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

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

P'raps that's why it is good camping out with them, I have noticed the sand
flies don't bother me when Koreans are arround ;)

Stewart

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