By Universities, Dialects

%He isn't ill, isn't he? The above sentence is quoted from The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, Cambridge University Press 2002. The symbol % indicates the status of the following example: He hadn't many friends. According to the second edition of Practical English Usage,...

I am not quite close to 'homeless'. I am living at my aunt's home because my granny invited 3 of her siplings to stay... aiya, according to my parents this is going to last 2 weeks or more. I am currently using my uncle's PC just to get here and take a look at what you say. Though I cannot come...

Hey Dex 17, I'm so glad you told that 14 year old all of that. I was wanting to after reading that racist drivel. I couldn't agree more, intelligence is not really race specific as it is people specific, and even then it's touch and go. There is a reason why they dropped that system of testing...

Hi Guys, I'm a new member to this forum, but I'm already excited to be a part of it. Anyhow, I'll tell you alittle about myself. I'm a second year journalism major at Michigan State University with aspirations of becoming a NewYork Times writer. One day I hope to publish my own magazines, but...

These are examples of either standard English for a dialect other than Standard English or they are examples of non-standard Standard English. English has many different registers. The way English is actually used in REAL life is not the manner described by most grammar books. Yesterday, I...

Dear Ludwig, Unfortunately, I am not of any help to you, since I do not live in Muenchen! Just out of curiosity, do you have something like the George Mason University's speech accent archive on your mind?(Here is the link to the archive for eager linguists: http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/ It's...

Dear ladies and gentlemen, With this letter, I would like to explain my motivation for studying International Business in general and why I chose the UM: After completing secondary School with the German diploma ‘Abitur’ in the summer of 2004, I would like to continue my education at a higher...

im american and we have so many regional dialects its absurd. really there are at least 40 at my university. I really do not need to post my supporting statements, because if you cared to make that comment you should have done a bit of research.

Hello, i want to apply to university and have to hand in a letter of motivation. I have been working on this first version for a while. I started with some brainstorming and wrote down all the things that interested me, what i have done before, what i want to achieve and also asked my friends to...

Do you think the writing below is: 1) Fine; 2) So-so; 3) Not very bad. We took a taxi to Nankai University from Tianjin West Railway Station, a journey that would take us about twenty to thirty minutes. The taxi driver, a middle-aged man with a rugged complexion and expressive features, was...