Talk:English language/Archive 7

message: I just changed the assertation that the Boston accent is a "formal American accent."  That used to be true, but only for the upper-class accent, which is heard in a lot of old movies (I know some people who actually thought Kathryn Hepburn was British, even though she's from Connecticut.)  However, that changed after WWII, and there's no real modern equivalent.  The notion of "General American," however nonsensical, does exist, but it doesn't have the same prestige that the Received Pronunciation does. --Confiteordeo 23:04, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Boston accent

message: With due regards SqueakBox, India has second largest (by some accounts even largest) english speaking population only after the United States. Most Indians are bilingual or even trilingual who speak english, hindi and their mother tongue with equal command. So please don't undermine them. sticknstones 14:43, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indian English 

message: *Hey, can somebody tell me why this article no longer exists, nor has a history page? Help! --Kevin 23:24, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Gone?

message: I'd like to start work on a spoken word version of this article--I think that it's extremely important and useful to have a spoken English representation of this article as a reference to and to complement the printed version.  However, I'm not sure how I would go about reading the section marked "Phonology", since it's several tables and sections of notes which use special characters to represent the vocal creation of the sounds (please excuse my lack of use of proper terminology, I'm a linguistic neophyte).  If anyone has any suggestions as to how I should tackle this section, please let me know and I'll get to work on this page.  Thanks, Rahzel 06:20, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoken Word version of article? 

message: I think someone should edit the article on the English Language to reflect that although English is the official language of Canada, that the official language of the Canadian Province of Quebec is French, and that in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick, English and French are Jointly the Official Languages.
:If we did that, we'd have to list the official status or otherwise of English in each U.S. state as well, and that's just too much information for this "general overview" kind of article. It should be mentioned at Languages of Canada (if it isn't already). —Angr 20:45, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canada 

message: I hope that by converting the Gothic letters in the got: interwiki link to HTML entities, corrections like these:
#29 August 2006
#6 September 2006
#15 October 2006
#1 November 2006
#22 December 2006
#5 January 2007
will no longer be necessary. Please no one change them back to characters, and please revert back to the entities if someone (or a bot) does change them back. Thanks! —Angr 00:13, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gothic interwiki link 

message: Adobe is using enu as the language code for its English software (e.g. here ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/7x/7.0.9/)? ISO 639-3 does not contain enu. So what kind of code is it? TIA,--Hhielscher 01:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Never heard of it. Maybe it means "American English", with eng being British English? (As in English-United States vs. English-Great Britain.) —Angr 05:13, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nor I, but according to this site  it simply stands for "English USA", as you had guessed. What he means by "language code" is anyone's guess. Wahkeenah 05:20, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  enu as language code? 

message: I have a doubt about about demarkation between first language and second language. I grew up in a family where mostly Hindi rather than English was spoken at home though my parents always used english at work. My medium of instruction from pre-school till research was english. I use english at work, with friends and a mixture of english-hindi with wife, siblings. The language I am more comfortable for entertainment (TV, music, movie, newspaper etc) is english though I ocassionaly watch stuff in Hindi too. I was never required to write anything in my life other than in english to the extent that i have almost forgotten hindi alphabets. Hindi was just taught as a second language at school. I live in a state that has a different local language than hindi and I can communicate very effectively in that too when required. Now people like me (in india numbers will go in millions) would be classifed as second language speakers of english or first. genemede 16:20, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: First Language & Second Language

message: This constitution appears to make English an official language in Sudan?
Language
8 (1) All indigenous languages of the Sudan are national languages and shall be respected, developed and promoted.
(2) Arabic is a widely spoken national language in the Sudan.
(3) Arabic, as a major language at the national level and English shall be the official working languages of the national government and the languages of instruction for higher education.
(4) In addition to Arabic and English, the legislature of any sub-national level of government may adopt any other national language as an additional official working language at its level.
(5) There shall be no discrimination against the use of either 
Arabic or English at any level of government or stage of education.
This ia available at http://www.sudan-parliament.org/en/details.php?rsnType=1&id=33
Nickhk 23:49, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 2005 Sudan Constitution