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re: What English sounds like to non-English speakers
Posted on 2/23/21 at 11:15 pm to WestSideTiger
Posted on 2/23/21 at 11:15 pm to WestSideTiger
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American English is no piece of cake
True, but the entire Hollywood engine is the GOAT language instructional program. That’s why the brits and the aussies can nail our accent.
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Posted on 2/23/21 at 11:19 pm to BRIllini07
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American English is no piece of cake
Posted on 2/23/21 at 11:25 pm to Kafka
The Ten Magic Phrases of Journalism
"violence flared"
"limped into port"
"according to informed sources"
"wholesale destruction"
"no immediate comment"
"student unrest"
"riot-torn"
"flatly denied"
"gutted by fire"
"roving bands of Negro youths"
Let's try putting The Phrases to work in a sample news story:
NEWARK, NJ, Aug. 22 (UPI) - Violence flared yesterday when roving bands of Negro youths broke windows and looted shops in riot-torn Newark. Mayor Kenneth Gibson had no immediate comment but, according to informed sources, he flatly denied saying that student unrest was behind the wholesale destruction that resulted in scores of buildings being gutted by fire, and added, "If this city were a Liberian freighter,* we just may have limped into port."
*Whenever needed, "Norwegian Tanker" can always be substituted for "Liberian freighter." Consider them interchangeable.
-- "How To Write Good" by Michael O'Donoghue
"violence flared"
"limped into port"
"according to informed sources"
"wholesale destruction"
"no immediate comment"
"student unrest"
"riot-torn"
"flatly denied"
"gutted by fire"
"roving bands of Negro youths"
Let's try putting The Phrases to work in a sample news story:
NEWARK, NJ, Aug. 22 (UPI) - Violence flared yesterday when roving bands of Negro youths broke windows and looted shops in riot-torn Newark. Mayor Kenneth Gibson had no immediate comment but, according to informed sources, he flatly denied saying that student unrest was behind the wholesale destruction that resulted in scores of buildings being gutted by fire, and added, "If this city were a Liberian freighter,* we just may have limped into port."
*Whenever needed, "Norwegian Tanker" can always be substituted for "Liberian freighter." Consider them interchangeable.
-- "How To Write Good" by Michael O'Donoghue
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