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PartⅠ UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN ENGLISH 3

1 Exporting American English 3

International Travel 4

Social Conversations 8

Confusing Cognates 13

Pronunciation 15

Misunderstood American Slang 19

2 Why American English Is So Difficult 25

1066 and All That 26

English Spoken Here...and Everywhere 30

What Should We Call American English? 32

Playing the Word Game 33

Oxymorons 40

Regional American English 42

Pronunciation 44

Fillers 47

Black English 48

Youth Slang 49

Political Jargon 51

Doublespeak 52

Bureaucratese 54

Summary 55

3 Mangled Misstatements 57

Part Ⅱ UNDERSTANDING WORLD ENGLISH 79

4 English English 79

Bloody Awful Words 83

Riding the Highway of Words 88

Food Is Not Necessarily Foode 92

Grammar:Garbled or Grand? 96

Spelling 98

Is It Briton or Brit? 99

A Dog's Breakfast 100

Reference Books 107

Summary 108

5 English:The Global Language 110

The First Faux Pas 112

Canada 114

Australia 121

New Zealand 126

South Africa 130

Where Is English Spoken? 136

What You Need to Know about Other English-speaking Nations 140

Part Ⅲ BECOMING A GLOBAL COMMUNICATOR 145

6 Using Interpreters 145

Avoiding Translation Sickness 147

Translating the Written Word 149

Computerized Translations 152

Presidential Pratfalls 155

Telephone Translations 156

Tips for Travelers Using Interpreters 158

More Translation Anecdotes 161

7 Social Conversations around the World 165

United Kingdom 167

Germany 174

Italy 177

France 179

Russia 181

Japan 184

Thailand 188

Korea 191

8 The Tower of Business Babel 195

From Boardrooms to Bathrooms 197

Workaday Words or Business Bombshells? 201

Business Abbreviations and Acronyms 206

Shocking Similes 212

Bumbled Brand Names 215

Eurospeak 221

Summary 224

9 Confusing Cognates and Telephone TaIk 225

Spanish Cognates 227

German Cognates 229

Telephone Talk 231

10 How to Be Understood 233

Ten Tips for Using American English 233

Other Ways to Communicate 240

Colors Communicate Too 241

The Meaning of Numbers 243

Other Ways to Cormprender 245

Epilogue 250

Words about Words 250

Appendix What to Know about Other Languages and Cultures 255

Japanese 259

German 269

French 276

Italian 283

Spanish 290

Chinese 297

Glossaries 304

Australian English to American English 304

American English to English English 318

New Zealand English to American English 324

Cockney Slang 329

Oxymorons 331

Index 333