HIGHLANDS
INDIA
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There
are at least 14 competing linguistic
traditions in India.
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English
is considered a neutral in some things
according to Professor Braj Kachru
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English
is needed by girls to get marry (girls from
upper/middle classes)
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English
represents class according to one of the
girls
AUSTRIALIA
·
The
first first penal colonies were in a) Sydney
b) near Hobart, Tasmania
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What
are some of the animals with Aborigine names? kangaroo,
wombat, wallaby, dingo, koala, bandicoot
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The greatest number of the first settlers came from London and
the counties around London
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What
are the meanings of the following words?
o
Wowser killjoy
o
cobber friend
o
larrikin a youth
o
corker a very good thing
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Flash
Jim Vaux wrote a short vocabulary of the Flash
Language
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Australian is the most classless form of English in the world
AFRICA
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Name two African languages mentioned in the film A) Susu B) Timne
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Apart from Standard English what other kind of English is mentioned? English Creole