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] Date Posted: 16:54:39 01/06/05 Thu In reply to: Dave (UK) 's message, "Teach it?" on 21:57:15 01/05/05 Wed Ian, I dnat agree with your anologie for beatles and coldplay. I will use them for my point. You cant hear the Beatles just anywhere anymore. Occasionally you will hear it in a record shop, but your morely likely to hear coldplay. You can of course still buy there music if you really want to, its your choice. The same should be with dying languages. The facilites should be available to learn them if you really want to but we should not try to prevent them fading. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Andrew [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 17:09:04 01/06/05 Thu "The same should be with dying languages." Isn't British English a dying language/dialect? It seems to me that all the time it is becoming more and more Americanised. The influence is nearly all one way. It isn't just German and French that are going that way. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Owain (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 17:29:05 01/06/05 Thu I dont care. I will use British speeling my entire life, but if by the next generation it has evolve dthen so be it. And besides it shouldnt be compared with French and German as you correctly point out its a dialect not a language, a completely different topic to that of losing a language. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:29:17 01/07/05 Fri Say what you wil, but the speeling porduced in the colonis just is'nt up to scartch [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Owain (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:44:07 01/08/05 Sat Soory if your so offended by my typos, but you really are doing nothing but distracting from the point. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:42:20 01/08/05 Sat ...reminds me of a daft book - Flowers for Algernon [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Nick (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 13:51:00 01/10/05 Mon Complete rubbish. All dialects grow and take in vocabulary and sometimes grammar from elsewhere - at least unless they're dead. British English is quite distinct from American English - both are evolving and changing all the time, and not necessarily in the same way. But it's not true to say one is the slave of the other. There has long been a tendency for young people in Britain to ape aspects of American youth culture, which is much less often a two-way process (though 'England' was the cultural centre in the second half of the sixties), but you shouldn't mistake this for the mainstream language. Youth fads are just that. Most street slang comes and goes in a matter of a few years and always has done. Examples of British linguistic influence on the US in the last decade are actually quite prominent - there is a growing use and comprehension of irony and understatement in the US (popularised by The Simpsons and Friends), and words like 'wanker' and 'slapper' are increasingly common. Even the word 'bloody', whilst seen as characteristically English, is starting to be used in conversation. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Paddy (Scotland) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 18:57:59 01/10/05 Mon "'wanker' and 'slapper' are increasingly common. Even the word 'bloody'" etc... What a great contribution to world culture! [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Paddy (Scotland) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:01:19 01/10/05 Mon Recomended reading: http://slate.msn.com/id/2103467/ [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |