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Spoken and Written English
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The English of speech tends to be different from the English of writing some fairly obvious ways. For instance:
We have time to plan our message in writing, but that is not possible while using the spoken form of English.
We often use words like Well, You see etc in speech. But in writing we tend to avoid these. These kind of words and phrases add little facts , but t .....
Author: Samir K. Dash
Category: Writing
Date Posted: Aug 4, 2005
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The Change in Communication: the Cyber effect
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The growing technology has become both a challenge and solution in the field of communication through language. I say this because, recent developments in the field of IT and telecom has brought a change that was never thought of by the guardians of the English language of the past. The focusing point here is that the use of internet, chat, e-mails and mobile SMS and MMS has br .....
Author: Samir K. Dash
Category: Writing
Date Posted: Aug 4, 2005
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Standards of English
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From the history of English language it is clear that good English has the tendency to vary from time to time, from area to area and from one social group to another. And these variations can be generalized according to two types – i) Standard English ii) Non-standard English . Sometimes we also distinguish between the accepted and non-accepted form of English. But these two wa .....
Author: Samir K. Dash
Category: Writing
Date Posted: Aug 4, 2005
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Notion of Correctness in Speech
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There is an old story about a girl, who asked her grand pa whether he keeps his long beard over or under the blanket while sleeping. Until then the grand pa never thought of this , but from that moment he tossed and turned every night trying to decide what to do with the beard – the poor fellow had become “beard conscious”.
And this story points to one aspect of learning a se .....
Author: Samir K. Dash
Category: Writing
Date Posted: Aug 4, 2005
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