Posted by: ar es March 9, 2009
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mcmcx.


Stop showing off. We get it. You know english. Your lengthy  comment to SKH where you "disclaim" that you are not trying to mock SKH, was quite obnoxious and condescending.  Why would you try to establish your superiority over SKH just becuase he is a little weak in a language that is not even his native? Not knowing english does not make a person stupid.


And besides, SKH has a point. What the Americans claim to be "english" can no longer be called english in it's true sense - the english that is spoken/written by a majority of the rest of the world. It has reached a point where you have to say, I speak American. I live in the USA, but learnt my english in Nepal, and when I go to a subway and ask for some "capsicum" in my sandwich, or  go to the store buy a woolen "muffler", they look at me like I don't know english, in an almost condescending attitude similar to how you responded to SKH. And imagine my frustration for getting marks cut on my final paper for "spelling mistakes" a la neighbour, colour. Heck, even MS Word in my college will give you humiliating sqwiggly line for such spelling "mistakes" 


So my point is, when SKH says " I heard Americans do not know English that much as the British or the rest of the world." I think he's right, because they speak American, not English.


 


 

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