Thursday, 22 July 2010

Last Snapshot!



South African English, English South African

We both speak English, but there are beautiful differences in the way we use it. ‘Is it’ is often used as a filler in a sentence to respond to news.
‘We fly home to the UK today.’
‘Is it.’
It’s used more as an exclamation than a question.

The other beautiful use of language is dropping the personal pronoun from the end of a sentence. For example: We wish you could all ‘come with’.

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