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epictetus Groupie Canada Joined 3882 days ago 54 posts - 87 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 65 of 67 13 February 2015 at 8:59pm | IP Logged |
leroc wrote:
tristano wrote:
Well for example I am interested only in British English (because it is the original one,
like I wouldn't study Surinaamse Dutch) while all the other people I knew in my life prefer
American English because it is more international. |
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American English is actually more conservative than British English. It's closer to how English used to sound
hundreds of years ago. |
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That sounds familiar from what I've read as well. It's a bit like how Latin American Spanish and Peninsular Spanish are merely different
developments from a common ancestor.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6582 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German
| Message 66 of 67 14 February 2015 at 9:00am | IP Logged |
It's a very common phenomenon. Taiwanese Mandarin is more conservative than Mainland Mandarin, Fenno-Swedish is more conservative than Swedish Swedish, etc. Not sure about Portuguese, but it wouldn't surprise me if Brazilian Portuguese is the more conservative variety and the whole "let's not pronounce the vowels" thing is a recent phenomenon. I even read about a study that said that Swedes living abroad tend to be less open to "new" developments in the language and more resistant to change, having a stronger tendency to say "No, that's not correct".
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4668 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali
| Message 67 of 67 20 February 2015 at 3:37am | IP Logged |
Ari wrote:
It's a very common phenomenon. Taiwanese Mandarin is more conservative than Mainland Mandarin, Fenno-Swedish is more conservative than Swedish Swedish, etc. Not sure about Portuguese, but it wouldn't surprise me if Brazilian Portuguese is the more conservative variety and the whole "let's not pronounce the vowels" thing is a recent phenomenon. I even read about a study that said that Swedes living abroad tend to be less open to "new" developments in the language and more resistant to change, having a stronger tendency to say "No, that's not correct". |
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Yup, especially the Swedish-speaking Finns.
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