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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 9 of 11 25 September 2011 at 4:04pm | IP Logged | ||
They all seem fine. The only one that momentarily flagged my attention was "How are things going?" but even that one is used there. I think the essential difference is that "you" don't "go" unless it involves actual travel and movement. But colloquially all else (things, everything) can "go". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Saim Pentaglot Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5083 days ago 124 posts - 215 votes Speaks: Serbo-Croatian, English*, Catalan, Spanish, Polish Studies: Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Occitan, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic (Maghribi), French, Modern Hebrew, Ukrainian, Slovenian | Message 10 of 11 26 September 2011 at 3:53am | IP Logged | ||
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The more educated and cosmopolitan Indians learn at least some of their English from native Anglophone sources anyway, so although Indian English may preserve some archaic forms or have influence from indigenous languages I don't believe that this will be compounded intergenerationally. Instead, as more people move into the wealthier classes more people will speak less Indian forms of English. Even look at Sanskrit, Persian or Arabic in the subcontinent - it's not like the varieties of these languages spoken there (maintained as foreign languages for centuries) ended up diverging so much from classical or native forms. All that happened was that they influenced the true native languages of India, just as English is doing now.
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| EricsonWillians Triglot Newbie Brazil myspace.com/pois Joined 5005 days ago 8 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Polish, Italian | Message 11 of 11 26 September 2011 at 5:21am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't think they speak English wrong, they just speak in another way, that's natural!
Their native language is different, it's totally foreseeable that they will speak in a different way than in England. That happens here! I'm a Brazilian and the Portuguese that we speak is VERY different than the Portuguese spoken in Portugal, in a way that causes several misunderstandings. My English is pretty different than your English, I've never been in England, and I speak only Portuguese here. So, I suppose that when I travel to England, they will certainly find my English something quite exotic. That's exactly the same thing! If you come here and find someone who speaks English (And that's difficult), you'll deal with exactly the same problem. So, I think that don't exist such a thing ("Wrong Language", because of the way of a certain people speak). That's relative. Edited by EricsonWillians on 26 September 2011 at 5:26am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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