Originally posted by Samm
Are there different dialects of english ?
Get an American, an Australian, a New Zealander and a South African in a conversation with an Englishman and tell me if they all speak the same
We all ( those nationalities in the above list) speak the same language, English, but have very differant ways of speaking it.
As far as that goes, i used to work with two english blokes, who apparently lived 20 miles apart back home in the UK, to listen to them speak, they sounded like they were from differant countries alltogether.
I have heard that English is one of the more difficult languages to learn because of the amount of words we have that are spelt very simillarly, yet pronounced entirely differantly, eg. cough, through, rough, plough, though....five differant ways of pronouncing the 'ough' bit.....I'm sure there are more, just cant think of any right now, theres something like ten or twelve ways.
And then you have 'slang' versions of the English language....if I were to type exactly as I spoke to my friends etc, a lot of guys who's native tongue was English would wonder what I was talking about, particularly the Seppos ;-)
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