Use “Fernhoodled English” Expressions to Make Learning Fun

Presented by:

Prof. Larry M. Lynch, LTCL Dip TESOL

Santiago de Cali University

COUNTRIES / LOCATIONS with SPANISH as the Official L1

Colombia Panama Ecuador

Venezuela Peru Puerto Rico

Mexico El Salvador Guatemala

Chile Honduras Argentina

Dominican Republic Uruguay Cuba

Paraguay Nicaragua Bolivia

Costa Rica Spain

COUNTRIES / LOCATIONS with ENGLISH as the Official L1

United States Trinidad & Tobago Belize Barbados Canada U.S. Virgin Islands Guyana British Virgin Islands Australia Falkland Islands England Grenada, St. Nevis / St. Kitts Jamaica India Bermuda South Africa Bahamas New Zealand Cayman Islands St. Vincent Grenadines Samoa St. Lucia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Liberia Ghana Ireland Hong Kong Zimbabwe

Varieties of the English Language

Tools / Languages / Define Language /

Australia Ireland Belize Jamaica Canada Malaysia Caribbean New Zealand United States United Kingdom Philippines Singapore Hong Kong South Africa India Trinidad & Tobago Indonesia Zimbabwe

AMISH POPULATION CHART

Convoluted Grammatical Form Expressions

• “Throw Papa down the stairs

his hat.”

• “He’s a pretty good man yet, ain’t not?”

• “Pop ain’t so good; his eatin’s gone away and he don’t look so good in the face, either.”

… and how about …

“The owner says he’ll pay me ten dollars a day if I eat myself, but just five dollars if he eats me.”

Specialized Vocabulary Expressions

• Shall I put the candy in a toot?”

• “When he gets up to read he gets befuddled.”

• “Go out and tie the dog loose and don’t forget to outen the light.”

Some Other Interesting Expressions

• “My son ain’t dumb. It ain’t that he can’t learn, it’s just that after he learns it, he forgets it.”

• “Don’t talk so quick, it runs together too much when I think.”

• “It’s gonna make down wet.”

Pennsylvania Dutch Proverbs

• “Kissin’ wears out, cooking don’t”

• “A plump wife and a big barn never did any man harm”

Another PA Dutch proverb …

“No woman can be happy with less than seven to cook for”

And how about these?

• “He who has a secret dare not tell it to his wife”

• “Ve get too soon oldt, und too late schmart”

And finally, they might say to you …

“You don’t make yourself out so good. You talk so fancy like a body can’t understand you.”

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