Standard spoken English: What is it?

English as a Second Language What do you want to talk about?
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Tell us which English “rural items” you would like omitted from your version of “spoken Standard British English”, will you?

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Common sense. (Rural or regional accents, by the way.)

MrP

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To what end?

MrP

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Do you think that’s what he meant? And why would I say that?

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Are you?

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For the sake of linguistics./? Because of the title of this thread, or that of this forum.

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(Rural or regional accents, by the way.)

Ah, I thought might have overlooked that. So, which accent does your “spoken standard BrEng” use/prescribe?

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It would be nice to know exactly what you were saying. What was it?

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You are, that’s for sure.

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Back to the thread topic:

Is the concept of a “spoken standard English” unproblematic?

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Back to the thread topic:

We (includes native English-speakers) know very little about the syntactic structure of spoken English. Do you agree?

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When Mr P mentions “standard spoken (British) English” does he mean that English which is spoken by educated speakers in formal situations?

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Why have most linguists failed to describe the grammar of speech?

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And, looking at Mr P’s description of what he calls “standard spoken (British) English” above, don’t you think that he’s referring to what should really be called “spoken standard (British) English”?

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Is it true that written English has continued to be the reference point for the standard variety?

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:?

Have you ever read Grimm’s story of the brave little tailor, M?

MrP

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Have you ever left the “age of reason”, P?

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What an interesting comment. Do you see the brothers Grimm as part of the “Age of Reason”?

MrP

Edit: the Grimms’, not Grimm’s, I suppose, in my earlier post.

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I see your grim Grimm posts and taunts as an example of avoiding the above questions. When you’re ready…

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I’ll pass, if you don’t mind. Too many.

MrP