By Sentence structures, Dialects

Hello everyone.I wish to further explore the type of english and dialect used in LOTR and in the fantasy genre such as Warcraft. I know Tolkien had his own particular way of writing but i've seen similarsentence structures in medieval literature as well. Is at all possible to talk about a certain...

My high school Chinese teacher asked me to help her translate these two abstracts from Chinese into English. I have finished, but I need to correct them into better English. Please help me. I have to give my teacher the translation. She helped me quite a lot while I encountered the most...

The distinction between a 'language' and a 'dialect' is never drawn clear, as it is, as you put it, an arbitrary assignment of jargons. Both a 'language' and a 'dialect' have some major common traits that distinguish them from other communication systems (ie. both are human - specific):...

Having a non-native English speaker start out with something like Huck Finn is a very bad idea. The dialects are rampant and the story is very antiquated. If a newcomer is interested in older works, Hemingway is not a bad choice, in my opinion, particularly his short stories. Simple sentence...

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...