Please help me to read this English sentence:

[DougLewis]

It is lucky I got to post on the thread before it closed.
As luck would have it, the thread is still open.
I am usually not so lucky.
Usually, if I have any luck at all, it is bad luck.
Without bad luck I would have no luck.
I did not rely on luck today. I came onto the thread by myself, without the aid of luck.
Perhaps my luck will hold and the thread will remain open until I finish this sen












I guess not.
D.

[Koir]

...

Mgleh.

[YuriTokoro]

Originally Posted by duo797

Just for extra emphasis, the same words can be used to mean different things between america and england. I wasn't aware that torch was the british 'flashlight', but if you mention a torch to someone in america they would picture something more like the olympic torch. Also, I've heard that a napkin means something very different to a british person when compared to an american person.

Thanks, duo.
I saw a dictionary. Now I think I see what you mean with "mean something very different". In Japan, we say the same word to mean it.
And the dictionay also said that American people have many words to mean it. I didn't know that.
Thanks.

[YuriTokoro]

Originally Posted by DougLewis

Where I was from in England people would say (phonetically as an example) "Ast geen wom?" Translated from English to English... "Are you going home?"

Hi.

In Japan, people in Kanto area don’t understand what people in Tohoku area say.
When I worked as a pharmacist, we had a patient who was from Tohoku area, and all of my fellow workers didn’t understand what she was saying at all.
Does this happen when English people speak to an Australian people?

[YuriTokoro]

Originally Posted by Columbine

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.)

Even if I study English harder, I don’t seem to be able to catch that variety of English.

[YuriTokoro]

Originally Posted by DougLewis

It is lucky I got to post on the thread before it closed.
As luck would have it, the thread is still open.
I am usually not so lucky.
Usually, if I have any luck at all, it is bad luck.
Without bad luck I would have no luck.
I did not rely on luck today. I came onto the thread by myself, without the aid of luck.
Perhaps my luck will hold and the thread will remain open until I finish this sen


I guess not.
D.

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean.
What should I do?
Should I close this thread and make a new thread?

Help, Koir, snbzk…
In easy English, please…

[ColinHowell]

Originally Posted by YuriTokoro

Even if I study English harder, I don’t seem to be able to catch that variety of English.

You mean that strange regional dialect Columbine mentioned? Heh, don't worry about it. The vast majority of native English speakers can't understand it either.

[YuriTokoro]

Originally Posted by ColinHowell

You mean that strange regional dialect Columbine mentioned? Heh, don't worry about it. The vast majority of native English speakers can't understand it either.

I feel relieved. Thank you, ColinHowell.

[YuriTokoro]

Can I ask another question here?

I don’t understand what this “politically uninformed” in this passage below means.
It’s obvious that high school students don’t know much about politics, but this sentence doesn’t seem to mean that.
Please tell me.

'Organizing high school students is extremely difficult. Apart from being an impermanent base, they are inexperienced and often politically uninformed. Their disconnectedness and isolation – easily caricatured as pouty alienation or angst – are rooted in the realities of their lives.'

Thank you.

[snbzk]

Originally Posted by YuriTokoro

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean.
What should I do?
Should I close this thread and make a new thread?

Help, Koir, snbzk…
In easy English, please…

I think he was predicting that the thread would be closed by a moderator, but I have no idea why. You don't need to do anything about it.