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Attempted murder!
**It wouldn't make sense to teach a new English speaker a dialect at first. Which dialect would be the best one to teach a new English learner? **
They are taught a dialect, They're taught the standard English dialect.
<A dialect is much more than pointing and grunting. Sometimes speaking a dialect also involves slobbering and making gibberish utterances, maybe with some clicking of the tongue.>
Sounds like the language used in YOUR posts.
**Sounds like the language used in YOUR posts. **
Uh, Morgan or MollyB, can you make a clicking sound with your tongue when you say that?
Теchnically, there is no point in continuing this discussion at all, for the original question was presented in such an illogical manner that it boggles the mind. The English language is inanimate, thus it is completely absurd to say one can "murder" it. I really am quite infuriated by such misuse of common linguistic units! Really, people need to learn English before making claims so devoid of simple reasoning! For heaven's sake, I feel my mind's been made a mushy mud mountain!
<<<Теchnically, there is no point in continuing this discussion at all, for the original question was presented in such an illogical manner that it boggles the mind. The English language is inanimate, thus it is completely absurd to say one can "murder" it. >>>>
Wake up to real English! I could murder a beer/curry/pint right now. I could murder him for borrowing my car.
**Wake up to real English!**
A native English speaker would never use that expression. That's very awkward.
*A native English speaker would never use that expression. That's very awkward. *
You're wrong, Guest. It's wholly idiomatic. Are you a non-native speaker of English?
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=95329&dict=CALD
could murder sth UK INFORMAL If you say you could murder a type of food or drink, it means you would like to have it now: I could murder a cup of tea!
Wake up to real English is idiomatic? I've never heard anything like that! Sounds like something someone who learned English as an adult would say.
<<I could murder a beer/curry/pint right now. I could murder him for borrowing my car. >>
I could murder my mother and then *drink* a pint. The old whore is passed out drunk again in her bedroom on the floor next to her bed, which is in fact right next to the desk under the computer I'm working on at this moment. Sorry if the sentences ramble on a little. The Soma has kicked in very nicely and I don't need my clothes anymore. I could take a break from my naked typing just long enough to pinch the old lady's nose and shove a rubber ball in her mouth. Or, .... I could smear a can of wet dogfood on her face and give her a good solid KICK to the head with my boot and then turn on the gas and go for a walk. Or,... I could take a wire coathanger and beat her with it until morning. And you thought coathangers were only for abortions! Well, you learned something new here tonight. Coathangers are also for elder abuse. IF YA GOT'EM, USE'EM!! Or, ... I could put her in the bathtub with a wet toaster and throw in a lamp and a hair dryer and a radio for good measure. I gotta kick this bitch and get out of here. All right.
*Wake up to real English is idiomatic? I've never heard anything like that! Sounds like something someone who learned English as an adult would say. *
Which part of the sentence do you have a problem with? wake up to reality wake up to Saddam wake up to terror wake up to...
<This forum is just an insignificant part of the whole internet, and it's clearly a bunch of trolls and fanatics who don't have a clue what they are talking about.>
I find the distribution of opinion suspect, in some of these threads. On a normal forum, there are shades of opinion, with different kinds of phrasing, spelling mistake, etc. But here, several supposedly different posters will suddenly arrive, all sharing one opinion and one idiolect, and attacking one poster. Perhaps the last 3 digits of IP addresses should be shown. MrP |