An English-speaking world

Question

What is ‘euphemistic’ about the term ‘good time’ when used for wartime relations between British girls and American soldiers?

Answer 1

Sex for nylons & cigs

Answer 2

Movies impacted language spoken Initially Movie English emulated British English but as the Americans became more dominant in the word the American lifestyle, products &American English became more popular and was spread amongst others by means of movies.

Answer 3

Vietnam war , President Nixon. Those who did not join the forces of dissent (disagreement w/ the war) became known as the silent majority.

Answer 4

Are not looked down upon—many Presidents and people in power have regional accents

Answer 5

Network standard

Answer 6

English is a unifying language—language of gov’t & administration. It is the lang of the educated and is important for social status & social mobility. Its an asset to girls when the marry

Answer 7

The necessity of English as common language in Inetrnational business

Answer 8

Tried to suppress the influence of English in French-speaking Canada—by banning English billboards & signs and English speaking schools. There was too much resistance & the law was defied p.40

Answer 9

Mention at least one advantage of this for English speakers and learners, and one disadvantage.

Answer 10

English has borrowed widely from other language Honcho =japanese; american Indian; spanish, french, dutch.....

Answer 11

Grammatical flexibity: verbs can become nouns, and vice versa, nouns van become adverbs...
Large vocabulary—many ways to say things

Answer 12

A pidgin is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common, in situations such as trade. Pidgins are not the native language of any speech community, but are instead learned as second languages.[1][2] Pidgins usually have low prestige with respect to other languages.[3]
Not all simplified or "broken" forms of language (patois) are pidgins. Pidgins have their own norms of usage which must be learned to speak the pidgin well.