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Article #3335Re: internet languages (English rules?)
From: Kjell Rehnstroem
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 00:00
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sdlee@cs.hku.hk (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~}) wrote:
>Here in HK, the official language is English, but the people on the
>street speak Cantonese. Not all people speak English. It happens
>that here in HK, some localized "English" phrases are invented. They
>stick to the Chinese grammar, but uses English words.
>For example, "Long time no see" (this has become so well-known that
>many English speaker know what it means), "No money no talk" (i.e.
>"Don't bother me if you have no money", "update(adj.)" instead of the
>English equivalent "up-to-date", etc.
>Now, we have a local language (Cantonese), why are these "English"
>phrases created?
Iste expressiones a multe colorito. A me specialmente place "No money
no talk." Esque le cosa pote esser exprimite plus clarmente?
Io vole demandar vos, si vos non crede, que le causa de iste
expressiones es, que homines usa le anglese e crea su proprie manieras
de expression. Al momento quando tu comencia usar un lingua, tu crea
in illo. Pote esser que isto non place al parlatores native, ma isto
es un altere historia.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11578d,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid11578d,public X-Google-Thread: 102cce,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102cce,public X-Google-Thread: 1058af,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid1058af,public X-Google-Thread: fa448,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa448,public X-Google-Thread: 102dad,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102dad,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public From: m9548@abc.se (Kjell Rehnstroem) Subject: Re: internet languages (English rules?) Date: 1996/02/18 Message-ID: <4g6h31$l1@oden.abc.se> X-Deja-AN: 139808801 references: <4bk4cv$mdk@globe.indirect.com> <4ebqrd$ep9@orthanc.esoterica.com> <4eiagk$cod@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <SDLEE.96Jan30112423@champion.cs.hku.hk> <4elrud$se8@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <SDLEE.96Jan31185842@champion.cs.hku.hk> organization: Societate Svedese pro Interlingua reply-to: m9548@abc.se newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.uu.lang.misc,eunet.politics,soc.culture.europe,alt.politics.europe.misc,talk.politics.european-union