By Learning English, Dialects

Hi Inchoateknowledge, You wrote: I do not study any dialects, only the standard language. Which standard? Englishuser

Hi Do you mean if I study various varieties of Englishes? I do not study any dialects, only the standard language. This is "the common denominator".

<He replied that as he didn't even talk about them in Indonesian, he had no idea of how to talk about them in English... Quite true, I thought. Why is it that learning English also means having to have the cultural values of English-speaking nations rammed down your throat? > It's a story...

Um….Where do I begin? Well, I am almost sure one or two of you on this forum may have already heard the story before. As I’d said many time before, learning English is much harder for Asians than Europeans for the simple fact that Asian langauges are not made up of alphabets, except Vietnamese....

Formerly "arrive to" was used in the sense of "arrived at". OED explains the verb "arrive" as follows:5. intransitive use. To come to the end of a journey, to a destination, or to some definite place; to come upon the scene, make one's appearance. Constructed wit "at", "in", "upon" (constructs...

I sympathize with Jeff. When I was learning English--that's decades ago--I read a grammar book delineating the same rule as Jeff brought up. As years passed, I realized that's a rather weird rule. I checked it with native speakers, they said in unison to the effect that I should forget the...

All languages change and develop over time, with new words being added and different meanings being applied. English has changed just as much as American english from what the language was like in the 18th century - no one goes around talking like Charles Dickens or Jane Austen anymore. naturally...

My first language was Greek and Ukrainian, even though my background is actually Ukrainian, Polish, Scottish, and Native Canadian Cree. I travelled throughout Europe and Asia through my life, and now I am flutent in seven languages, and can get along conversationally in eight others. Of these...

Where is "missing"? Missing is a place that is not here and not known, I guess? I would say, "She is missing", but I have heard "went missing" many times. I think that maybe sometimes it could be used like a slang phrase. Such as when educated people say "ain't" to affect the tone of their...