Senator Pauline Hanson.
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FactCheck requested sources and comment from Senator Pauline Hanson to support her statement about the number of people in Australia who can’t speak English “well or at all”.
The ‘north’.
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Northern dialects are actually close to original English – despite what southerners might say.
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Journalists should mind their language.
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‘Some of us speak King’s English, some of us speak jive,’ declares the lead character in Lee’s powerful new film. And he wields the English language to devastating effect.
Second-generation migrants are usually dominant in English, and third generation are usually monolingual in English.
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Concerns about non-English-speaking migrant populations leading to “parallel communities” are not well founded. Third-generation migrants are typically monolingual in English.
English is just one of many languages spoken in the UK.
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Britain can’t keep relying on everyone else speaking English.
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British colonial rule of Iraq led to some intriguing language swaps.
Filtering information.
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Having English as a common language can and does lead to problems.
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But the British soon got the hang of profanity.
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It would diminsh the value of Britain’s multilingualism, promote a monolingual ideology and discriminate against speakers of other languages.
There’s no reason Africa shouldn’t be at the centre of global knowledge production.
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Africa’s current situation has a parallel in European history - the Reformation and the changes it wrought in terms of language exceptionalism.
There are 11 official languages in South Africa.
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South Africa must be seen as a country for speakers of all its official languages rather than an English-only elite.
Let me guess where you’re from.
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The world is becoming increasingly connected, but local accents still define who we are.
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Perception of truth and lies changes between languages for bilingual speakers.
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It’s a multi-lingual effect.
The initial aim of political correctness, to establish non-hateful language was, and still is, admirable.
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In little more than a generation and a half we have become a more caring and inclusive society.
‘I want to be effluent’: malapropisms and mispronounced words were a regular gag in the TV comedy Kath and Kim and continue to peeve many people today.
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Do you wince at a mispronounced ‘Moet’? Do you cringe at unintentional portmanteau words, like ‘misunderestimated’ or ‘insinuendo’? You are not alone.
Purpose-built English language tests should be applied only to the proficiency they were built to test.
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Using purpose-built English language tests for purposes other than what they were created to test reduces the validity of these tests.
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The Mississippi is characterised in America as male, while the Indians see the Ganges as female.
Many English providers already meet the “new” standards.
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Contrary to some reports, there is no new English language test for international students - the government is simply expanding standards already being met by most providers.