That Language Barrier .....
Marah has very good English, and is always very proud of the fact, so we don't have too many problems with the language barrier, except with the weird Irish slang, which, at times really is a...
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I still fine the he/she stuff frustrating. I wonder if any Filipina on earth has ever got that one right? I simply can't follow conversations where "he" could be male or female.....or when one of my...
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Oh, and the word "ashamed" being used instead of "shy". I can remember being told "My brother won't speak to you, because he is ashamed". And I'd be thinking "I wonder what he DID??" I worked it out...
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Yeah .... the he\she thing is funny.And "closing" the light
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... and getting told to "sit down" when you are already lying down ........... and past \ present tense mix ups.These are NOT criticisms, by the way, I love the differences and find them unfailingly...
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Yeah? I rather enjoy Kilkenny. (Wonder why everything comes back to alcohol?) I find it cute how a question is formed simply by putting an upward inflection at the end of a statement. eg. Statement =...
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Sure we do that upward inflection thing here in Ireland, but then, our English has always been weird, and we are not long from being a poor country ... less than 20 years ago we were one of the...
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Kilkenny is not a bad brew, even though I'm not that fond of ale. I suppose it's not the beers that are the problem as we get all the usual, Guinness, Heineken, Carlsberg, Budweiser(spit. suppose I do...
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My wife has the same troubles with the proper use of the pronouns, he/she and sometimes it is really funny to me. My wife speaks English quite well but sometimes my friends and family have trouble...
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From a different angle, I find my husband so adorable trying to speak filipino. Whenever he says, " Shower ka na." I don't know exactly wether he is asking me if I showered or he is telling me to...
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Oooops....sorry it was Jeff who said about the we are going to town story.Sorry Jeff sa error... joy
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ahhh language barrier!!!! im always having troubles hearing which is witch... with color and collar.... some american pronounce it the same... so i think it isnt true that once youre an american you...
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To be honest chandies, I don't think any nation speaks "correct English" any more, not even the English themselves. Maybe a refined form of it remains spoken in middle classes in England, but the rest...
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hi!! and there accent is funny too if they tried to speak tagalog they sound funny' my bf can speak tagalog too his learning so wen he speak tagalog 'iam in the floor laughing' lol coz its sound...
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