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Milky wrote:Why have the "guardians of English" failed to provide such codification for the language as has been done by the Academies for French, Spanish, Italian, or, more recently, Hebrew?That's a good, and fair, question. I don't have time for research right now, but I believe there have...

Which of the following three descriptions best describes dialect? 1 'One of the subordinate forms of varieties of a language arising from local peculiarities of pronunciation and idiom.'

Hi Peter, if you know English well, you should easily understand when they talk. If you don't understand, that means there's something wrong with your English. I have trouble understanding too, but I realized that's because my English is not as good as it should be in order to understand...

Yes, I agree, but a native speaker's command of his language is usually superior to that of those who have not lived in total immersion. It is practically impossible to master a language if you are not in constant contact with those who speak it - and mould it unwittingly - all the time.As...

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...

If you want to talk like a native speaker then you have a long way to go. You can't skip over the steps. I suggest you master the basics first, before moving on to idioms and expressions. They're forums over here that can help you starting off(Vocabulary and Idioms, General English garmmar...

I wonder whether the relative lateness (etymologically speaking) of 'spring' and 'autumn' is also a factor. They don't seem to have come into general use before the C16. So perhaps their idioms are less bedded in. In terms of pronunciation, 'winter day' is more awkward than 'winter's day'; while...

Last question first: "yooss too" and "yoozd too" are very primitive pronunciation guides, the main idea being that the "sed" of "used" is pronouned with the "s"-sound in certain idioms. "I always worked alone" does not include the present. The period of working alone may have ended quite a...

Hi there! I'm a Spanish telecommuter working for a US company and hence with an American boss, so I think I'll often use this awesome forum to clear up idioms and pronunciation doubts... Yesterday as I was having problems with my vpn software to connect to the corporate network, he recognised it...

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