Thread: Variants of English

I am an example of the most cross cultural you can get. Hence the OP. Country jumping some as my family is everywhere so I can't answer your question.

What did I learn? English is not my mother tongue but I made an effort.

Originally Posted by fohk

What did I learn? English is not my mother tongue but I made an effort.

Same!

I will think about exchanging a hug with you ....... coming from different cultures my friend but not so different. You get it, right? There is one rather nice place, you may know it well. Called the Blue Bar. A meltingpot of any sorts and very any form of English you can find. See you there.

My CFO wouldn't like signing off on my expense reports after a night there!

Blue Bar in Cornwall? Liverpool? Knightsbridge? Gleneagles? Somewhere else?

Originally Posted by OckerRocker

Originally Posted by fohk

What did I learn? English is not my mother tongue but I made an effort.

Same!

Indeed....
Sounds very familiar!!

'The Blue Bar' is English code, you wouldn't get it. I blame Bond for this debacle. See you there too chas.

Originally Posted by fohk

I will think about exchanging a hug with you ....... coming from different cultures my friend but not so different. You get it, right? There is one rather nice place, you may know it well. Called the Blue Bar. A meltingpot of any sorts and very any form of English you can find. See you there.

Originally Posted by fohk

'The Blue Bar' is English code, you wouldn't get it. I blame Bond for this debacle. See you there too chas.

So it's a gay thing. In fact, somewhere where Blue might go looking for a fight.

So you are assuming I am a gay male? From my experience.

Mandarin and Cantonese are clearly different enough to be considered separate languages by any ordinary standard of mutual intelligibility. Calling them merely different dialects may be common because they weren't thought of separately by Westerners, because they all use more or less the same characters, and because the current government would rather not admit how different the various varieties are. By the usual standards of mutual intelligibility, there are somewhere between ten and forty related but different languages which are referred to as Chinese, and each of those different languages has several dialects.

meme, join 'The Blue Bar', nudge, nudge, wink wink say no more sport.

Originally Posted by fohk

By that standard, British and American should be different languages.

No English is English. What other's speak is up to them.

English is not English, no way.

Originally Posted by Neverna

So it's a gay thing. In fact, somewhere where Blue might go looking for a fight.

You couldn't be more wrong, mate.

Originally Posted by fohk

English is not English, no way.

'dost thou knowest'

Oh and lassie is a scottish girl not a TV dog

Originally Posted by OckerRocker

Originally Posted by Neverna

So it's a gay thing. In fact, somewhere where Blue might go looking for a fight.

You couldn't be more wrong, mate.

Enlighten me, please.

Originally Posted by fohk

From what I understand, the difference between American and British English is greater than the difference between many European languages

Really?
I like coffee (British English)
I like coffee (American English)

Je aime le café (French)
Ich mag Kaffee (German)
Ik hou van koffie (Dutch)
Mi piace il caffè (Italian)
Me gusta el café (Spanish)
Eu gosto do café (Portuguese)
Lubię kawę (Polish)
Волим кафу (Serbian)
Volim kavu (Croatian)
Jag gillar kaffe (Swedish)

(From Google translate)

No, no, no, one can say 'hello' in many languages also.