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Hi,

Thought you might be interested in this piece of ‘English’ and I use the word loosely - from the person in the UK government who is responsible for education in schools -believe it or not!

[color=red]Well, yeah -right - ok - see what yer mean - ain’t it?

A

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Hi Alan,

Are all these words called “insert words”? Are there more? And why do we use them?

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It seems Britain may be just as plagued by jargon, buzzwords and “talking heads” as the US is.

That is a pretty awful example of “English”. And the source makes it all the more frightening. :shock:
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Hi Yankee,

You said:

The English language is obviously changing. Why do you consider a particular variety of English awful?

Englishuser

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Hi Englishuser, I think Amy wasn’t referring to ‘a particular variety of English’. She just said that this type of empty talk is rather useless and I agree with her.[YSaerTTEW443543]

TOEIC listening, photographs: A lot of pollution[YSaerTTEW443543]

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Hi

Can I ask, whether in modern English ‘example’= ‘variety’?

Tamara

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Hi Torsten,

I should have asked why Yankee thinks that a particular register (rather than variety) of English is rather awful. To use slang and informal English is surely all right - and even expected - in certain contexts.

Englishuser

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Hi Tamara,

Without nitpicking I would suggest that ‘example’ is used here to indicate a particular illustration of this type of language.

A

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Using/Use of slang is OK unless you’re a Schools Minister. As David Miliband is.

Thanks, Alan.

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Hi Englishuser, if you were to sum up the text passage Alan has quoted, how would you do it? What are the key facts of that message?[YSaerTTEW443543]

TOEIC listening, photographs: A large machine[YSaerTTEW443543]

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Hi Rosalisa,

My comment: ‘Well, yeah -right - ok - see what yer mean - ain’t it?’ was meant to be a bit of a joke and really to laugh at the way the text I quoted was said/written. Please don’t take it as good practice.

A

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Hi Tamara,

You wrote:

Are you correcting me?

Englishuser

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No.
I have no intention of correcting your English.
I just wasn’t sure whether to-infinitive could be used that way.
At least, in English I’m trying to learn.