Isn't Hypatia European? So, she'd know the formal English taught in schools?
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Originally posted by Sparko View Post**cough**Hypatia**cough**
We always laugh when somebody learns Spanish so they can work with our Mexican friends, but it's SPAIN's Spanish, not Mexican Spanish, and it sounds funny.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostYeah, I suspect she's German and learned "royal English".
We always laugh when somebody learns Spanish so they can work with our Mexican friends, but it's SPAIN's Spanish, not Mexican Spanish, and it sounds funny.
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I wonder if any translator ever accidentally translated the New Testament as if it were classical Greek instead of Koine Greek?Last edited by Christianbookworm; 07-28-2020, 09:51 AM.If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostYeah, I suspect she's German and learned "royal English".
We always laugh when somebody learns Spanish so they can work with our Mexican friends, but it's SPAIN's Spanish, not Mexican Spanish, and it sounds funny.
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Originally posted by Christianbookworm View PostIsn't spoken and written English different? Like you would not talk like you were writing a professional level paper!Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostRutgers Declares Grammar Racist
English Department pledges to incorporate 'critical grammar' into program
Us Grammar Nazis is in lots of troubles!
Such theories are similar to what is known as soft primitivism. Examples of which include the idea that before the white man arrived all the Native American nations were tree-hugging proto-hippies, and prior to the wicked Romans and Julius Caesar all the Celtic Gauls were living in contended harmony."It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostMy family in Germany learned English in school and don't talk anything like Hypatia. She just wants to sound high falutin' as an attempt to sound smarterer than she really is.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View PostIt is a rather asinine idea. It reminds me of the Afro-centrism that was all the rage years ago in the US. Everybody in history was black according to that "theory" [I use the word advisedly] and African civilisations led the way. Off the top of my head I cannot think of any really ancient African civilisations apart from Egypt.
Such theories are similar to what is known as soft primitivism. Examples of which include the idea that before the white man arrived all the Native American nations were tree-hugging proto-hippies, and prior to the wicked Romans and Julius Caesar all the Celtic Gauls were living in contended harmony.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostMy family in Germany learned English in school and don't talk anything like Hypatia.
Originally posted by Sparko View PostShe just wants to sound high falutin' as an attempt to sound smarterer than she really is.
I assume both those contributors are natives of their respective countries [Denmark and Finland] and not simply English speakers resident in those countries. I'd also suggest you try reading or watching a foreign correspondent journalist that is based in a foreign country.
Furthermore anyone who has studied language to a higher level will know that writing is different from speaking.Last edited by Hypatia_Alexandria; 07-28-2020, 12:25 PM."It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
Sportin' Life
Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostHere, it's called "the dumbing down of society". An uneducated populace is much easier to control than an educated one."It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
Sportin' Life
Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
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Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View PostI fear that dumbing down society is not unique to the USA.
Quick side story. When I was in High School, there was a renewed focus on English as a language. We had a round of tests to determine a student's proficiency in English*, and those who failed or performed poorly were required to take a class in remedial English. As one my suspect, I excelled, so I had to take "some other class" while many students took remedial English. For reasons I could not, at the time, understand, I was directed to take Typing 1.
Mind you, at that time, "typing" was for girls. (Sexist, yes, but true) On my first day of class, I looked around and perceived that I was the ONLY male in a class full of females, several of whom were quite attractive.
Our teacher was "old school" meanie, actually intending for us all to learn "touch typing", and love it.
A) I got to experience the wonderful sense of being the only guy in a room full of girls
2) I was forced to learn "typing", which I thought was an absolute total waste of time, but as the "computer age" hit, I discovered that I was QUITE proficient in a field where most of my colleagues employed the "barnyard method" of typing. (hunt and peck)
Being forced into typing was one of the best things that ever happened to me!
*IMOHBAO, the reason we were doing so badly in English is that we had abandoned phonics.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostWhen I was in High School, there was a renewed focus on English as a language.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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