#532 What are "bangs"? AOL cuts jobs, Leaving Nova Scotia
BackThere are so many dialects of English. Some people seem to think there are only two dialects of English: British and American. Uh, no. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_the_English_language This video was made at Acadia University. http://www.acadiau.ca/ Study English at Acadia: http://conted.acadiau.ca/acil/ Acadia links: http://www.thedailyenglishshow.com/acadia.html English script: http://thedailyenglishshow.blogspot.com/2007/10/show-532-wednesday-17-october_21.html 英文スクリプト＋日本語訳＋番組詳細 http://tdes.blog120.fc2.com/blog-entry-414.html Show 532 Wednesday 17 October The Daily English Show http://www.thedailyenglishshow.com/
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Uploaded: October 20, 2007 at 9:24 am
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Video Comments:
slumbagalalice (Saturday 3rd of May 2008 12:25:18 AM)
you say with weird.
its annoying.
sorry.
ha.
actually.
im not.
thatamericangirl (Thursday 8th of November 2007 12:03:11 PM)
"Bangs" is also a They Might Be Giants song!
I guess I'm lucky that I had/have a good friend from Scotland, so we learned some qualities of each other's English dialects! And of course tease each other. He says "mee-jum" for medium, and I say "uh-loo-min-um" for aluminum!
canoe4u (Sunday 21st of October 2007 03:24:07 PM)
"Visit with", implies a more pleasant experience... "We visit with our grandma"...
On the other hand..."Everyone should visit the dentist once a year" or "If you do something wrong the police might pay you a visit".
Just my understanding.......
canoe4u (Sunday 21st of October 2007 03:31:31 PM)
"Visit with" implies a "give and take".
To "visit" implies a more "one sided" thing...
proffmongo (Saturday 20th of October 2007 04:32:33 PM)
Don't tease us!!! What are Plaits??
Cut can also be "get rid of, give up." Like "cut it out", "cut our losses" and "cut classes" and so on.
I wonder if I have any Plaits??
RealizedRealization (Sunday 21st of October 2007 02:55:07 AM)
A plait is the same thing as a braid.
Bulletproofshirts (Saturday 20th of October 2007 11:42:31 AM)
while "visit with" may not technically be wrong, it is definitely a redundancy.
"I visited Mary" has the exact same meaning as "I visited with Mary" in any dialect that I know of.
I think people have been adding the extra preposition in there for so long that over time it just became standard. I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually considered grammatically incorrect at one point.
Bulletproofshirts (Saturday 20th of October 2007 11:39:07 AM)
that one guy said he wanted to visit brazil because he has been learning a bit of Spanish....
Maybe somebody should tell him that they speak Portuguese in Brazil.
thatamericangirl (Thursday 8th of November 2007 11:59:57 AM)
My husband asked, in front of my family, "What do they speak in Brazil? Spanish?" Nobody said a word.
wowJhil (Saturday 20th of October 2007 10:03:00 AM)
Yeah that's awful, correcting someone and then realize you were wrong all along. Hm, doesn't happen to me too often though :p