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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 01 October 2007 - Volume 10</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <
<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: Idiomatica<br><br>Folks,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Tonight I was reminded of another idiomatic difference between American English and non-American English.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"The children are </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
pressurised</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> to abandon their parents' language and culture."</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
In American English this would be </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">pressured</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Am I right in assuming that to American ears "pressurized" sounds like </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
literally</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> put under pressure or receiving additional pressure, such as air or gas pumped into them?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">On the other hand, in non-American English you say "The house got </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">burgled</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
, and the burglar is still at large," while "to burgle" doesn't exist in American English and you say "The house got </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
burglarized</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">, and the burglar is still at large."</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Another one: "Good night from </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">all the</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> team!"</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">In American this would be "Good night from </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">the whole
</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> team!"</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The way I see it, in American English a team or a similar body of people is a singular unit, while in non-American English the members are the focus. Similarly non-American "they" vs American "it" for nouns like "team" or "government."
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">American English rarely uses "all the" in case of singulars, and then perhaps only because of archaic idiomatic expressions. For example, you can say "for all the world to see," but "for the whole world to see" sounds right too.
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span>
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