Thanks, Usha. The slides are from the PROSE (PRomotion of Standard English) event - the second one is from a Chinese Hawker Centre (food stall) in Singapore. S.E. Asians tend to drop the final consonant. Hence "Please mind (mine) your head" Pronunciation-spelling. Possible to find a lot of examples from Indian English as well.
I did not realise u had spelling problems for English that side! If there is more like this,maybe u should either send stuff to rosh for her blog on spelling or start one,its a good reading material. we can read them.also maybe u'r students can use it too. ust
1.Good idea, Usha. One can do wonders with English varieties - spoken, written and the hybrid form of Computer-mediated Communication (CMC). CMC is written/typed, but has the characteristics of spoken language. Crystal's book: "Txtng: The Gr8 Db8" explores this issue. 2.The spelling problem 'mine' (for mind) is linked to pronunciation as well.
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is this from a place u visited/
Cool Rajeev...nice ones
Hi Rajeev,
You have not changed a bit. Thanks for posting your pictures. You have a very lovely wife and a cute daughter :)
Thanks, Usha. The slides are from the PROSE (PRomotion of Standard English) event - the second one is from a Chinese Hawker Centre (food stall) in Singapore. S.E. Asians tend to drop the final consonant. Hence "Please mind (mine) your head" Pronunciation-spelling. Possible to find a lot of examples from Indian English as well.
Welcome to the real world of English, Amos.
Hullo Sunita,
We thank you for the compliments. Hope all well at your end. Chitra has seen you and rest of our class in our MA`photo.
I did not realise u had spelling problems for English that side!
If there is more like this,maybe u should either send stuff to rosh for her blog on spelling or start one,its a good reading material.
we can read them.also maybe u'r students can use it too.
ust
1.Good idea, Usha. One can do wonders with English varieties - spoken, written and the hybrid form of Computer-mediated Communication (CMC). CMC is written/typed, but has the characteristics of spoken language. Crystal's book: "Txtng: The Gr8 Db8" explores this issue.
2.The spelling problem 'mine' (for mind) is linked to pronunciation as well.
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