Anglo / American / Australian Translator.

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Re: Anglo / American / Australian Translator.

Post by DuncaninFrance » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:39 am

From the Oxford English Dictionary...................

learn
n verb (past and past participle learned or chiefly British learnt)
1 acquire knowledge of or skill in (something) through study or experience or by being taught. Øcommit to memory. Øbecome aware of by information or from observation.
2 archaic or dialect teach.

DERIVATIVES
learnability noun
learnable adjective
learner noun

ORIGIN
Old English leornian, of West Germanic origin; related to lore1.

learned
n adjective having or characterized by much knowledge or erudition.

DERIVATIVES
learnedly adverb
learnedness noun

Might clear it up a bit Robert :cool:
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Re: Anglo / American / Australian Translator.

Post by Niner » Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:38 am

That tells the origins alright.....back before the fork in the road. Just wonder what was the fork and why was it in the road? :bigsmile:
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Re: Anglo / American / Australian Translator.

Post by DuncaninFrance » Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:37 am

That is the "two nations separated by a single language" answer :bigsmile:
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Re: Anglo / American / Australian Translator.

Post by deadin » Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:17 am

I just found this thread and enjoyed it (Especially the bits about accents)
A good example would be my youngest son, born in Japan while we were stationed there. ( career US Navy)
Transferred to Texas about the time he was learning to talk. Then to Virginia where he went to kindergarten and pre-school and, finally to Seattle where he started 1st Grade.
We were called in by his teacher who wanted to know if we were seeing a therapist as our son had a speech impediment.... :lol:
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Re: Anglo / American / Australian Translator.

Post by DuncaninFrance » Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:52 pm

AW SHI! :loco:
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Re: Anglo / American / Australian Translator.

Post by Aughnanure » Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:46 pm

Learnt/learned; seems that the US is still a repository of original English.
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