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English is weird
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 02 Jan 2021, 07:14 ---I have only experience vestibule being used to refer the space between two sets of entry doors, vaguely akin to the airlock in a spaceship. I've never heard anyone use it to refer to a courtyard.
Also, in my area of the country, "lobby" and "foyer" are typically used for different things. Lobby is used for the central public area near the entrance of business, apartment complex, or government building while a foyer is generally the area just inside the front entrance of a house.
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I only know the bit about courtyards due to the definition I looked up.
As for foyer, the church I grew up in called the large entry space a foyer.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 06 Jan 2021, 11:15 ---Hell, even within those different regions are mutually unintelligible dialects.
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And at least two of them have regions of snoots who insist anyone who doesn't talk like them must be stupid.
snubnose:
--- Quote from: Wingy on 06 Jan 2021, 09:14 ---
--- Quote from: Case on 05 Jan 2021, 16:42 ---English - a language with half a grammar and three vocabularies.
What could possibly go wrong?
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And at least 4 major, separate, regions where it's actively spoken (and therefore morphing). I find it amazing Aussies, Brits, Indians, and USnians can even understand each other, let alone as well as they do.
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So can Germans, French, Spanish, Italian, ..., Arab, Iranian, Iraqi, ... Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, ... etc etc etc
Its the global village and we ALL communicate over the internet now. In english.
Thats why everybody can understand everybody else ... there is no chance of the language drifting without everybody noticing anymore.
sitnspin:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 08 Jan 2021, 01:43 ---
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 06 Jan 2021, 11:15 ---Hell, even within those different regions are mutually unintelligible dialects.
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And at least two of them have regions of snoots who insist anyone who doesn't talk like them must be stupid.
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And regions where if you don't talk like them, they think you must be a uppity, snobbish wanker.
Akima:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 08 Jan 2021, 07:04 ---Thats why everybody can understand everybody else ... there is no chance of the language drifting without everybody noticing anymore.
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English drifts constantly, and everyone does notice, but thinks everyone outside their dialect group is doing English wrongly. The price native English-speakers pay for not having to bother to learn anyone else's language is that English does not belong to them any more.
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