Do you find it is more acceptable to poke fun at the more dominant forms of English? There are lots of youtube videos where British accents and American accents are made fun of, but I notice that the ones that make fun of Indian English, Malaysian English, and other less dominant forms, draw heavy criticism from netizens.
Reading your blog on “tomato” http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/tomato-tomato-its-all-english
I was a bit surprised (even though I am not a native speaker) to see “an historian” which sounds a bit old-fashioned to me, instead of “a historian” given that the h is usually pronounced. Probably more fodder to the topic in the blog I suppose. It’s all English, isn’t it?
I am looking forward to having a hot discussion with my students anout this post.thank you!
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Do you find it is more acceptable to poke fun at the more dominant forms of English? There are lots of youtube videos where British accents and American accents are made fun of, but I notice that the ones that make fun of Indian English, Malaysian English, and other less dominant forms, draw heavy criticism from netizens.
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Reading your blog on “tomato”
http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/tomato-tomato-its-all-english
I was a bit surprised (even though I am not a native speaker) to see “an historian” which sounds a bit old-fashioned to me, instead of “a historian” given that the h is usually pronounced. Probably more fodder to the topic in the blog I suppose. It’s all English, isn’t it?
I am looking forward to having a hot discussion with my students anout this post.thank you!