Separated by a Common Language?

[monster]

Originally Posted by toranokaze

American English is my first, and only, fluent language. I would like to think I have a regionally ambiguous dialect, although informally I do use some Texas colloquialism, slang, Spanish, and Japaneses peppered into my speech.

I think i see the Japanese sometimes, although i'm no expert. Sometimes your structures remind me of my friend's husband -who is Ameican-born Japanese. But then sometimes they remind me of my own drunk typing.... so i could just be full of the usual bull. Your vocab is great though -often makes me smile (in a good way). Vernacular was the word that made me ask here.

[toranokaze]

Originally Posted by monster

I think i see the Japanese sometimes, although i'm no expert. Sometimes your structures remind me of my friend's husband -who is Ameican-born Japanese. But then sometimes they remind me of my own drunk typing.... so i could just be full of the usual bull.

I am sure I'm filled to the brim with the usual bull. Much of my sentence structures , expeshaly the less than common ones, comes from literal Spanish translations, British literature( The tragedy of Dr. Faust, John Milton, ect) , and American blank verse poetry.

But I am most influenced by the speech of those around me and the media I consume. For instances if I read a lot of poetry I will speak in verse; After I watched the movie Brick I picked up their speech patterns for about six hours.

Originally Posted by monster

Your vocab is great though -often makes me smile (in a good way).

I am glad for that.

Originally Posted by monster

Vernacular was the word that made me ask here.

I am curious here. Is vernacular a British idiom or an Americanism?

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