Originally Posted by
B747-437B
I'll forgive your transgression of calling Georgia Tech a "university" (it's Georgia INSTITUTE of Technology for the record!
) since you seem to have a good memory!
Good to know
Originally Posted by
B747-437B
What does "Southern" English sound like anyway? Should I be punctuating my posts with "y'all" and "yee-haw"?
No, although it would be awfully funny if you did... I don't know how to explain what Southern English sounds like - it's just that when I hear something written in a particular way, I think "Oh that person is from the South, or India, or somewhere else*
People speak English differently in different places obviously
Originally Posted by
B747-437B
OT - when I first started at Georgia Tech, all international students had to sit an English test to determine our level of proficiency. Despite a 670 TOEFL score (99.9 percentile) and a 710 SAT Verbal (98 percentile), I was deemed to be "severely deficient" and had to attend an entire year of ESL classes. Our ESL class consisted primarily of Indians and Pakistanis, with a handful of South Africans and even two Brits (how an institute in Georgia could force someone from Britain into an English as a Second Language course was an irony lost on them). It coincided with the 1996 Cricket World Cup. Needless to say, it was a fun class.
