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Not about cheating, but my friend runs a education consulting service in China and he recently got a call from a father saying that his 20 year old daughter was
by howlingfantods 10y ago
Not about cheating, but my friend runs a education consulting service in China and he recently got a call from a father saying that his 20 year old daughter was in the USA studying English but found it too difficult. The father wanted to know if my friend could help his daughter transfer to a school in a country speaking easier English, like Australia. He and his daughter apparently thought Australia spoke some sort of pidgin English that would be easier to learn than American English.
- throwaway_xx9 10y ago> thought Australia spoke some sort of pidgin English well ...
- ryao 10y agoSingapore would probably work well for that. The people there are reported to speak such a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish That said, if learning English is the goal, then that probably will be counterproductive.
- gajomi 10y ago>He and his daughter apparently thought Australia spoke some sort of pidgin English In all fairness, there is a certain view that most English dialects are pidginized to some extent. et lest tha leksografee iz konsistent with thee observayshun.
- abrookewood 10y agoAs an Australian, I can confirm that in some parts of the country this is probably true! Seriously, our elocution is nothing short of atrocious: we drop words, use frequent contractions and then just roll everything into one mumbling, rolling wall of noise. Witness "owzigoin?". Known in more respectable locations as "How are you doing?". FWIW I'm just as guilty as the rest.
- rcthompson 10y agoThis is equally true of parts of the USA, and probably most other countries.
- jessaustin 10y agoIn Hawai'i this is just "howzit?"
- bigtunacan 10y agoAs a USA native I can confirm that it is even simpler here. You can just say, "Sup?"
- abrookewood 10y agoClearly we have work to do ...
- xenophonf 10y agoUs Chicagoans optimize that to "Yo!"
- stordoff 10y agoIsn't that typical of most English countries (and presumably other languages)? For example, in Yorkshire (UK), "I would not have" might become "I'dn't've".
- tallanvor 10y agoA linguist once pointed out to me that this is really common everywhere. She used the example "dijaeet?" Written that makes no sense, but it really is how a lot of people ask the question "Did you eat?"
- coredog64 10y agoSurely you can't be serious? I mean, to hear that someone went to Brizzy, had some brekky, and watched some footy on the telly is comprehensible to anyone.
- lolc 10y agoGo consult your linguist about that guilty feeling, you'll feel better afterwards :-)
- shimn 10y agoSadly, your examples seem to suggest the opposite. The condensing of phrases makes the language more opaque and difficult to learn. So to a versed English speaker, the dropped implied words are easy to fill in; for someone learning, it's requires significant processing.