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Originally Posted by YuriTokoro
 English is the language of England, and you live in England, don't you?
How different is your British English from Canadian English? |
Oops, we've started a whole other topic here now!
Differences in English are just like differences in Japanese. Kanto Japanese is a little different to Kansai Japanese right? And Okinawan Japanese is different to Japanese spoken in Yamagata or Hokkaido. It's the same with English. There are lots of different accents IN Britain, and even more outside of Britain, depending on where each person comes from. Knowing what the differences mean can tell you a lot about a person, just from how they speak or write english.
For example, I can tell just from the way he writes that Doug has spent a lot of time living outside of Britain; the syntax (way of arranging words in a sentence) he uses is different. I can also tell that he must be 30 or older because of some of the words he uses.
("Ast geen wom"? I assume that's from somewhere in the East Midlands? Leicester or Nottingham way, I'd guess.)