Other Versions of English: When to Speak Outside the Textbook | Virginia Beowulf
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English can be simplified even further. When native speakers speak outside the textbook, and why that's a good thing:
0:00 – When do native English speakers write and speak incorrectly?
2:40 – Do newspapers cripple the English language?
3:34 – English headlines without connectives and articles
4:25 – Incorrect English tenses in newspapers
5:53 – Why newspapers violate grammar: headlines
7:22 – When is it okay to make "mistakes" in spoken English?
8:35 – Alternative Grammar in Dialects
9:40 – Dialects of British English: RP, Estuary, Cockney, MLE
10:19 – A Unique Atmosphere in MLE Grammar: Multicultural London English
13:23 – How Contact Changes Language: Pidgin
16:03 – What Are Creole Languages?
18:12 – Bislama: A Language Easy to Understand with English?
18:28 – The Lord's Prayer in Hawaiian: Hawaiian Pidgin, or Hawaiian Creole
19:18 – When Jamaican "English" Isn't English: Patois Grammar
22:55 – Is Black American English a Creole Language?
25:05 – AAVE Grammar: Omitting the Linking Verb "be"
26:14 – What "be like" means in memes: AAVE habitual "be"
27:19 – AAVE Overview: Perfective "done," "finna," "gonna," and more
29:50 – AAVE Phonetics: Pronunciation of "TH" and "N-word," "white" voice
32:19 – What else is interesting about language
33:08 – Why do deaf and hard-of-hearing people write poorly?
34:49 – Why deaf Britons and Americans won't understand each other: English Sign Languages
35:34 – About Beethoven
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