|
Crouchingtiger77 -> RE: Off Topic About Language Acquisition (4/25/2014 1:45:45 PM)
|
quote:
I can't think of any words we write but don't say in English, but sentence structure can be very different. If you've ever tried making a transcript of a conversation you'll see that we don't really talk how we write. We also use a lot of dialect words that we probably wouldn't write down unless it was in very informal correspondence we someone we knew fairly well. I can't imagine writing 'graunching' or 'chunnering' to anyone but my grandmother. So it's not the same but I think every language has different spoken and written rules to some extent.
Athena, and yes to everyone else, thank you all for your feedback, and you are perhaps correct we do not write how we speak. The thing is, what I just wrote I would also say.
We do not have a rule that says, "Say it this way but we write it the other way."
I am trying to think of an example of what I say, in one fashion, would be written in a different sentence structure.
Perhaps this is why my written grammar sucks, and it does. I write as I think and that is how I speak which does not possess the grammatical problems of my written structure.
I would like an example, a good one, of how what is said is so different from the written form. Oh yes, and we can't end sentences with a 'preposition, correct, as that is called dangling about , yes?
|
|
|
|
