http://linguisticallyspeaking.twoday.net/ barbara... barbara... 2006-11-12T17:28:56Z en hourly 1 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z http://static.twoday.net/icon.gif http://linguisticallyspeaking.twoday.net/ http://linguisticallyspeaking.twoday.net/stories/2836337/ Learn something f(<strike>airly</strike>) useful about grammar lessons and word use in Indian English:<br /> <br /> <a title="" href="http://linguisticallyspeaking.twoday.net/files/Indian_Teacher/">Indian_Teacher</a> (mp3, 504 KB) si1ja <a href="http://linguisticallyspeaking.twoday.net/topics/Global+English">Global English</a> Copyright © 2006 si1ja 2006-10-22T11:48:00Z http://linguisticallyspeaking.twoday.net/stories/1533296/ (the title is not the actual quote (see below) - after all our feminist linguistic discussions I just couldn't leave it with 'spokesman')<br /> <br /> This is a little passage from Crystal about Global English that made me laugh out loud:<br /> <blockquote>In Ghana, we find <i>heavy</i> in the sense of 'gorgeous' and <i>brutal</i> in the sense of 'very nice', and a number of semantic shifts, including <i>maiden name</i> meaning 'given name' (applied to males) and <i>linguist</i> meaning 'spokesman for the chief'. </blockquote> (Crystal 2003: 160f.)<br /> <br /> (It do wonder how they got to these meanings for <i>heavy</i> and <i>brutal</i>. The others seem like more or less likely misunderstandings in a colonial setting - but these??) barbara... <a href="http://linguisticallyspeaking.twoday.net/topics/Global+English">Global English</a> Copyright © 2006 barbara... 2006-02-08T15:19:45Z Search this site: q http://linguisticallyspeaking.twoday.net/search