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Diddy Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

UK english VS. US english

I know there is some diffrence but in fact I do not know how big the diffrence is.

So therefore I am asking you to explain how big the diffrence between these two dialects is.

Can they understand eachother when talking to eachother.

And so on.

And the funny thing is that it is called english which means it must come from England.
  

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Diddy I know there is some diffrence but in fact I do not know how big the diffrence is. So therefore I am asking you to explain how big the diffrence between these two dialects is. Can they understand eachother when talking to eachother.

  • Diddy I know there is some diffrence but in fact I do not know how big the diffrence is.
  • So therefore I am asking you to explain how big the diffrence between these two dialects is.
  • Can they understand eachother when talking to eachother.
  • And so on.
  • And the funny thing is that it is called english which means it must come from England.
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DiddyI know there is some diffrence but in fact I do not know how big the diffrence is.

So therefore I am asking you to explain how big the diffrence between these two dialects is.

Can they understand eachother when talking to eachother.

And so on.

And the funny thing is that it is called english which means it must come from England.
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But I am not talking about particulary cases, I am talking in general.
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This doesn't have a very straight-forward answer.

I think that 99.5% of the time, there is no problem understanding meaning. Most of the difference come in pronunciation (and there are wide difference within each of the countries as well), in vocabulary, spelling, and idiom.

A vocabulary example is that a "***" over there is a cigarette but over here is a not-nice way to describ
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OK thank you very much.
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Come on. You must have more to say on this subject.
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The closer you examine the two, the more minor differences you can find, but in the larger scope of things, they are merely two varieties of the same language, not by any means two different languages. We can understand each other very easily. British movies are shown in the U.S. and vice versa, and each group understands the other -- without need of subtitles! GG has summarized the point

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