A question (or two) about English
This is really a question directed to people who have learned to speak English as a second language. What I was wondering is which variety of English you were taught to speak/write etc. American 'English' or Proper (British) English? (color/colour, magnetize/magnetise, aluminum/aluminium, mold/mould, upcoming/forthcoming, line/queue and so on and so on...)
It would also be quite interesting to see the distribution of each, so perhaps it would be possible if you gave your country too?
Oh, and one more general question, why in the name of *** *** do Americans insist on smattering 'hell' all over their sentences? e.g. "...hell, even my nipples turned blue!", "well, hell, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't consolidate relativity and quantum theory!" etc. etc. It annoys the hell out of me...
(Language - Beirut)
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