Re: "y" and "r"
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 1, 2001, 12:37 |
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YHL wrote:
>Much agreed. Though "standard" might depend on where the non-native
>speaker comes from. (South) Koreans invariably learn the "standard"
>*American*
>variant of English, maybe because of the fact that the U.S. 8th Army is
>plunked in their country. Others are going to have something closer to
>"standard" British English. (I was going to say Hong Kong and India
>probably, but that's a guess on my part based on a small sample of
>English-speakers from both places and a vague knowledge of British
>colonial history, and I'm sure someone will show me wrong....)
We-ell, the English I've learnt in school is basically RP, while most
English I hear in my spare time (eg on movies, lyrics etc) is American. The
result, of course, is that the English I speak is an ungodly mix of RP and
American Standard, with some random dialectal features splashed here and
there.
As you may've noticed, my spelling is also something of a mix. I write
"colour" and "metre", but "realize" ...
Andreas
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