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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
Speaking as someone who was once forced to learn English grammar as a part of learning the actual language, I'd have to agree with you. I think he was talking about "newspeak" and slang though?
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That would make sense - thanks; I didn't read it like that but, there again, I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree.
As you rightly say, as a newcomer to a language, understanding the "grammatically correct" form of the language is much easier than understanding the everyday spoken varieties. I'm currently learning Arabic, and understanding what's called "modern literary Arabic", which is the standard written form of the language, is much, much easier than understanding the considerably different local dialects which exist in the different Arabic-speaking countries. People in Egypt don't speak Arabic the same as people in, say, Saudi Arabia do, although the written language is the same in both countries.