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"There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!” ― Alan Jay Lerner, My Fair Lady https://youtu.be/t8zhp
by Xeoncross 4y ago
"There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!” ― Alan Jay Lerner, My Fair Lady
https://youtu.be/t8zhp699FXg?t=110 https://youtu.be/t8zhp699FXg?t=110
- zdragnar 4y agoAnd yet there are places in America whose regional accents are closer to English was at the time those places were settled than Britain is now. Even more ironic is that My Fair Lady is an American film based on a play by an Irish Brit (George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion).
- Xeoncross 4y agoI think it's ironic that language which is used as the primary form of communication for one's whole life still requires training in University. Perhaps there truly is no such thing as proper English.