Southern English is pretty weird too.
Jes mash that button, y'all.
What? This one righ hea?
And I don't really get English English. Why are you adding u's in words. It's Color, not Colour, Analyize, not Analyise, Theater, not Theatre. Honestly, you Brits invented English -- can't you learn to spell it?
Since they invented it, their English is perfect. It's not that they added in u's, it's that you took them out. You say you write in English - can't you learn to spell it? Either spell it in English or call it American, I say.Originally Posted by Gnostic Yevon
And I don't really get English English. Why are you adding u's in words. It's Color, not Colour, Analyize, not Analyise, Theater, not Theatre. Honestly, you Brits invented English -- can't you learn to spell it?
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More examples!
M(manglish)
E(english)
M:Ya lo...
E:Right...
M:No wonder la...
E:No wonder...
M:Ceh,you very good meh?
E:Hmph,you think you're so good?
The 'ceh'(prolong the e ten times longer) and 'meh' comes from Cantonese.'Ya' is a short for 'yeah'.Malaysians write it as 'ya' because it's Malay(Malaysia's official language) and it's shorter.
ya la, that's the spirit of malaysian...
you are saying the right thing what...
LOL you speak Manglish to Malaysians and English to Brits and Americans?
Just be careful, some words have different or contradicting meanings in British and American English. For example: (AE- American English, BE- British English)
Sanction
AE: To stop (trade sanctions- no trade)
BE: To give the go ahead
Critical
AE: Verging on a state of emergency
BE: Very important
These are all I could think of but you should get the idea. The saying 'two countries divided by a common language', about Britain and American should also help.
"Reality is that which,
when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away".
Philip K. Dick
We have something called Norglish. It's generally a degoratory term used when a norwegian's english is just horrible and/or directly translated without fixing the grammar. Thankfully, English and Norwegian grammar aren't as different as English and Malaysian grammar.
I think manglish and singlish are equal to that.
everything is wrapped in gray
i'm focusing on your image
can you hear me in the void?
it seems that this language are like bond to each other...
American English actually isn't that bad if you look at it. Someone who's proficient (note: proficiency doesn't necessarily apply to a large part of the population) has no problem being understood by other English-speaking people.
It's all of the slang that throws people for a loop, but you get that everywhere. Even in England.
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