Standard Australian English is very easy to understand for me as a
North American speaker of English, especially when written because
that eliminates the potential problem of different accents. Standard
Jamaican English is easy to understand, perhaps you are thinking of
Jamaican Creole, which is often impossible or nearly impossible to
understand for me personally and is usually considered an independent
language by linguists and actually has a test WP:
-m.
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
The most common different orthographies are those for the American and
British spelling.. When it comes to differences between British and American
English, the standard version of either can be well understood in either
country. Australian English or Jamaican English are less easily understood.
I do not know to what extend Indian English is homogeneous..
As long as people write in either the UK or US orthography, the words are
easily enough understood. The problems comes with implied expected
knowledge. This is where things break down.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 19 September 2010 14:08, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 19 September 2010 12:42, Ilario Valdelli
<valdelli(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It is normal because any standard language has
different registers, the
dialect has limited registers and in general only for daily and familiar
use.
This, by the way, is why we don't have multiple English Wikipedias -
in the higher registers, all the dialects (which are frequently all
but mutually incomprehensible in the lower registers) converge and
educational English is quite consistent. The only major dialectic
variant is American versus British spelling, and anyone who reads one
can read and often write in the other.
- d.
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