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Respect due to speakers of other languages in the UK!

SpiralusSancti said:
Well tests required to pass level of advanced English or what’s rated as equivalent to native speaker to me always seemed as something harder than 99% native speakers I met could solve.
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I noticed a lot of EU speaks English as a 2nd language more properly than I do as an American. A few people in Amsterdam passively corrected my English.

Me: "Can I get a pack of Marlboro Reds?"

Cashier: "uhh.. I think it is possible :)"

(Americans always use "can" instead of "may" when requesting something)

I still think about that interaction, lol. I think it's just a natural thing, because we learn English as children before they teach us textbook English in school, and it's difficult to correct afterwards.
 
SpiralusSancti said:
Well tests required to pass level of advanced English or what’s rated as equivalent to native speaker to me always seemed as something harder than 99% native speakers I met could solve.
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Yes, I agree with you.
I said the same thing to the Indian guy I'm helping.

Here is an example below folks.
 
Snafu in the Void said:
I noticed a lot of EU speaks English as a 2nd language more properly than I do as an American. A few people in Amsterdam passively corrected my English.

Me: "Can I get a pack of Marlboro Reds?"

Cashier: "uhh.. I think it is possible :)"

(Americans always use "can" instead of "may" when requesting something)

I still think about that interaction, lol. I think it's just a natural thing, because we learn English as children before they teach us textbook English in school, and it's difficult to correct afterwards.
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Ay up arr lad, yau sez yau spok rung inglish but arrm tellin yau in be blocke cuntry we speekz va closist ta Inglish yau'll find cauze it ay ta far from olde Englis-h.

Aarm Blak cuntry & ei ay arf guud at spokin eet.

 
As a first-generation British-born Punjabi we were not allowed to speak English in the house .. Oh is the one unifying ur English has a lot of Punjabi words added mostly swear words like sister nfucker donkeys dick. My friend's wife was from India and had to pass a life in the UK test to get leave to remain In Punjabi all non-government schools teach in English one class every day English is the unifying language in India they all taught it
 
yubacity said:
As a first-generation British-born Punjabi we were not allowed to speak English in the house .. Oh is the one unifying ur English has a lot of Punjabi words added mostly swear words like sister nfucker donkeys dick. My friend's wife was from India and had to pass a life in the UK test to get leave to remain In Punjabi all non-government schools teach in English one class every day English is the unifying language in India they all taught it
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I remember an Indian friend hearing the word 'radiator' and she KNEW what it meant, but couldn't work out if it was a Hindi or English word... but you are SPOT ON.

English isn't like French (who protect every word). If a new word arrives and it's useful, it's used and becomes part of the language. So in hundreds of years expect English to have many more loan-words.
 
AlsoTapered said:
I remember an Indian friend hearing the word 'radiator' and she KNEW what it meant, but couldn't work out if it was a Hindi or English word... but you are SPOT ON.

English isn't like French (who protect every word). If a new word arrives and it's useful, it's used and becomes part of the language. So in hundreds of years expect English to have many more loan-words.
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I called a boiler geezer for years i thought that what it called then friend said it the punjabi word .
 
Everyone would understand 'boiler geyser' (I see you have a scientific mind) and so it's an English term. It might not be the official word, but language is a method by which we communicate and so as long as we both understand, it's fine.

I'm in a FB group where examples (images) of bad grammar are laughed at and derided. I don't. I find the context and often you find out that their are manifold reasons for the errors. A sign written in haste by someone for whom English is not their first language. Auto-correct errors and in newspapers, space.

If I cannot understand the statement and more particularly when it means something else entirely, those are the ONLY cases where the sign fails to
do it's job. A sub-set of those ARE funny. But mostly it's just people wanting someone to 'be better than'. Let's face it, in this hyperconnected world, you have to presume human error is not the most likely cause.

But Yubacity - if you hadn't mentioned it, I don't think anyone would have known English wasn't your first language. I have some Dutch and a little Latin & French.... but nothing to match your standard. It's really impressive.
 
AlsoTapered said:
Everyone would understand 'boiler geyser' (I see you have a scientific mind) and so it's an English term. It might not be the official word, but language is a method by which we communicate and so as long as we both understand, it's fine.

I'm in a FB group where examples (images) of bad grammar are laughed at and derided. I don't. I find the context and often you find out that their are manifold reasons for the errors. A sign written in haste by someone for whom English is not their first language. Auto-correct errors and in newspapers, space.

If I cannot understand the statement and more particularly when it means something else entirely, those are the ONLY cases where the sign fails to
do it's job. A sub-set of those ARE funny. But mostly it's just people wanting someone to 'be better than'. Let's face it, in this hyperconnected world, you have to presume human error is not the most likely cause.

But Yubacity - if you hadn't mentioned it, I don't think anyone would have known English wasn't your first language. I have some Dutch and a little Latin & French.... but nothing to match your standard. It's really impressive.
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Wheni first went to school i hardley knew english my mom nspoke to me in punjabi first day when we stand up and say pour name and where we lived i had an punjabi accent a kid laughed i punch him punjabi and the doaba region we from it its a rough language
 
I have lived in states for more then half my life i had american accent now it stay chavy chatham language . Got family in durham once we in the pub my cousins goes drink iup wwe have some scran and get the knack .. I not understand scran if food and knack the Punjabis use for. coke knack means nose in Punjabi
 
Love newcastle accent women talking turns me on any people here from newcastle or preston best nights out great people
 
LoginNotSecure said:
D’ya wanna be in my gang, my gang!
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Heh, I must have been 5 or 6 years old when that track was in the charts. I remember seeing him on TOTP and even at that tender age, I thought he looked decidedly dodgy with his overly tight glitter suits accentuating his premature, yet fully developed flabby dad bod.

No. I preferred Alvin Stardust. He was loads cooler (must have been the leather) and slightly less creepy...
 
I can recall a guy trying to molest me when I was 7 or 8. I RAN. It took me years to realize just what was up BUT I really wouldn't have made a good witness at that age in 1970s England.

But I can only imagine the guy must worry right up until today that the next knock on the door...

But thankfully from a young age my mum told me about when she was a teen and another girl made a grab for her at a party. So I kind of knew it went on and she didn't cope with it as well as I did. She locked herself in the loft of the house. I presume the girl was told she went too far.

My mum is TOTALLY mad but occasionally gives good advice.
 
F.U.B.A.R. said:
Heh, I must have been 5 or 6 years old when that track was in the charts. I remember seeing him on TOTP and even at that tender age, I thought he looked decidedly dodgy with his overly tight glitter suits accentuating his premature, yet fully developed flabby dad bod.

No. I preferred Alvin Stardust. He was loads cooler (must have been the leather) and slightly less creepy...
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I met the drummer for Alvin stardust last week randomly walking around Berryhill Park in Nottinghamshire.
 
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