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RE: We are Stronger Than We Expect
One day I had dinner at the same table with two Germans, an Italian, a Japanese and an American
This sounds like the beginning of a joke. I know that it isn't, but it sounds like it.
That must have been very interesting - with your Ukrainian accent too. A vibrant mixture of cultures.
When I wrote this, I also thought it sounded like the beginning of a joke.
It was a conference hosted by the Japanese company Asahi Kasei. After dinner we had dinner. There really was a mixture of cultures.
Speakers from England also attended the conference. They are more difficult to understand because they use much more complex language constructions and unknown synonyms. But the native speaker sounds perfect.
I was hoping that would be the beer Asahi... I must confess to being a little disappointed that it wasn't 😟
We also have so much slang and our language is becoming increasingly "simplified" by simpletons who don't learn how to speak and write English any more. Additional, unnecessary words being included in sentences which add nothing but can easily confuse. Like the word, like. "I'm like, super happy right now." Usage of the word "of" instead of "have" - "I should of done something" is just wrong.
the-mrs-gorilla's friend has a friend who named their child "Arry" instead of "Harry" because, and I quote... "We wouldn't pronounce the 'H' anyway". Our language is going to shit.
Unfortunately, the conference was not about beer. It was a highly specialized conference on ion exchange membranes, electrolysis and all kinds of chemistry, which is completely uninteresting to people.
I think you are exaggerating. But your language really pays for world domination. English is spoken almost all over the world and everyone adapts it to their customs, their native language and others. I think this is a problem not only of the English language. Globalization mixes people, languages, nations. I see that there are a lot of English words in the Ukrainian language now. If you want to talk about the latest technology, phones, computer components, then almost all the words are in English. There are simply no equivalents in our language.
Ha ha, yes. You're probably correct. The funny thing is, that I don't think it's the Globalization of the English language that is changing it - it's the laziness of native British (and American) speakers.
Here you are right that American culture has become wildly popular, and with it American English.