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Milky Posted 19 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Smoke and mirror promises?

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0 No. Of course not.0-
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0Yes, I agree that it is an illusion.02br
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00I suspect that the last anon person meant that they don't believe it leads to instant international communication.0-
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10No. Of course not.12br
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10Fair enough. Could you explain why?0-
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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite10I suspect that the last anon person meant that they don't believe it leads to instant international communication.12br
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10Maybe.02br
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0 Well, they certainly wouldn't be able to communicate to people in the remote rainforests of Brazil. But they would be able to get along just fine in the Anglosphere, France, Western Germany, Switzerland, USSR, Portugal, China, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania, India, et cætera. English is certainly widely spoken, or at least was, the last time I visited those countries.0-
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0 I was only thinking about communication with other English speakers, both native and nonnative. Do you think that the English you've learned will allow you to communicate internationally with all other English speakers regardless of variant? 0-
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01cite10Milky12cite10I was only thinking about communication with other English speakers, both native and nonnative. Do you think that the English you've learned will allow you to communicate internationally with all other English speakers regardless of variant?12blockquote
10Yes, I see no reason not to believe so...
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0To varying degrees. Accent plays a large part in understanding communication and some speakers are unable to understand each others speech sufficiently well. It's not restricted only to 'secondary' English speakers - I've known native speakers of in theory the same version of English, not really be able to understand each other. When I was 16, I spent 5 months working with an Irishman, and we n
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0 lol...02br
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00I live in a country where very few people have even a basic level of English, yet, I still manage to communicate reasonable well. Language itself, as you hinted, is the icing on the cake of communication.02br
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00Where there is a will, there is always a way. For example, if you don't understand someone because of their accent, then c
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0 One quick question, Anon: Which variant/dialect of English would you say you are communicating in here on this forum? 0-
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