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I recently wrote an article on Wikipedia about Malaysian English but I'm not sure if all are 100% grammatically correct can someone check for me? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_English or here : Malaysian English From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation,...

I told you that I'm fed up with all this disinformation of people. You know, information can be manipulated and you can't only believe what you read. You have to know the place from first hand to understand certain things. I'll just tell you one thing: I don't know of any part of Catalonia...

Hi, maybe it's too late to post this reply... I am an expert on this topic by no means but I happened by this website by accident and I thought I could give you a couple of my thoughts on your essay. Maybe you should use the name that linguists have given the dialect, AAVE (African...

Number 2 does not have a Birmingham accent at all. Number 57 has.

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...

My apologies, MrP (your post was clear) That's interesting. Actually, artificial encouragement can be in its own way 'prescriptive.' Creating a chic idea you influence speaker's choices prescribing a particular usage of the infinitive. You may not be successful overnight, but as an increasingly...

Your toes look pretty sharp and nimble to me, Paco! I think doubt often does arise, for native speakers, when they're using this structure in written English. I've had conversations like the one above on a number of occasions, when someone has suddenly doubted their own intuition while writing a...

Many Singaporeans do speak very good English, but the reason many western native English speakers don't consider that Singaporeans in general speak 'native English' is because of the predominance of the Singlish dialect. Singlish in it's most extreme forms lacks inflection for tense and plural...

JTT wrote: I have read Professor Lawler's offerings a number of times and I'm still reading and cogitating on the one you offered. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. You're very welcome. Have you viewed http://www.orlapubs.com/AL/L39.html, or is that what you're working from? With...

mountainhiker: If it were that simple, then all native English speakers would be highly proficient in speaking, reading, and writing. Unfortunately, they ain't. Moreover, listening is trivial. Monkey's can listen to English all day, but I am not sure you want to have a long conversation with a...