There even are places where English completely disappears; in America they haven’t used it for years. — My Fair Lady
There are, of course, variations in any language that’s used as widely as English. Accents and colloquialisms are the natural products of having people speak a language everywhere from India to Hawaii.
But even taking into account accents and such, there’s no excuse for not knowing how to properly speak your local brand of English. Call it proper grammar and spelling, the King’s English, or whatever, but if you speak and write like an ignorant slob, no matter how smart and clever you are, you will be perceived as an ignorant slob.
In other words, if you want to get credit for your education, sound educated.
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Frank the Wanderer
/ May 15, 2014Technically speaking, it’s the Queen’s English at the moment. 😉
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daddybear71
/ May 15, 2014Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Roy
/ May 15, 2014I don’t disagree with you here – especially about sounding educated. But languages are dynamic and ever changing. After all, the romance languages – French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian – all evolved out of Latin. Indeed, even the “Queens English” started out as a Germanic language. If you were to listen to an Englishman from the 12th century, you wouldn’t be able to understand most of what he says.
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daddybear71
/ May 15, 2014Right, but I doubt that it will ever be acceptable in my lifetime to say “I don’t got no reason to not lurve this song.”
Unfortunately, that’s a quote from someone who graduated from a university here in Kentucky. I’m researching out of state schools for Girlie Bear now.
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