George Boeree | Re: [LinguaFrancaNova] About English was: Introducing myself…

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Autor: George Boeree (“cgboeree”)
Tema: Re: [LinguaFrancaNova] About English was: Introducing myself…
Data: 2002-11-29 20:20
Mesaje: 426 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

One thing I have found, though, is that there is a lot of consistency
between dialects, so that you can pretty much sound like an Aussie by
substituting die for day, and so on.  What that means is that we could
get a rational spelling -- just each dialect would interpret it
according to their own practice!  Even the words that are pronounced
quite differently often differ only by a letter, which isn't too
difficult to get used to.  I gave it a try:
http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/ess.html.

George

P Bjorn Madsen wrote:

>  Hi Paul
>
> --- Paul O. BARTLETT wrote:
> > The language is pronounced quite differently in different
> > parts of the world.  Educated native speakers can usually understand
>
> > each other, but non-native speakers who learn one English dialect
> > sometimes can scarcely understand speakers of another English
> dialect
> > ...
>
> You are right about differences. I still remember an Australian guy in
> a Manila bar, that told us: "I came here to die". Later we found out
> that he was in perfect health and just had told us: "I came here
> today"
>
> But in my experiences English is very flexible and forgiving. Both in
> Africa and Asia I have often been surprised to see people get along
> with a limited vocabulary and almost no grammar. You can have
> amazingly good conversations with a few English words and a couple of
> beers;-)
>
> I really hope that some day people can do the same in LFN.
>
> Bjorn
>
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