Not about cheating, but my friend runs a education consulting service in China and he recently got a call from a father saying that his 20 year old daughter was in the USA studying English but found it too difficult. The father wanted to know if my friend could help his daughter transfer to a school in a country speaking easier English, like Australia. He and his daughter apparently thought Australia spoke some sort of pidgin English that would be easier to learn than American English.
As an Australian, I can confirm that in some parts of the country this is probably true! Seriously, our elocution is nothing short of atrocious: we drop words, use frequent contractions and then just roll everything into one mumbling, rolling wall of noise. Witness "owzigoin?". Known in more respectable locations as "How are you doing?". FWIW I'm just as guilty as the rest.
I thought it was 'jo' or 'joe'. I run into a lot of Chicagoans and they pepper their speech with 'joe'. I was always like 'joe' who? Found out recently it is a stand-in for dude.
Isn't that typical of most English countries (and presumably other languages)? For example, in Yorkshire (UK), "I would not have" might become "I'dn't've".
A linguist once pointed out to me that this is really common everywhere. She used the example "dijaeet?" Written that makes no sense, but it really is how a lot of people ask the question "Did you eat?"
Sadly, your examples seem to suggest the opposite. The condensing of phrases makes the language more opaque and difficult to learn. So to a versed English speaker, the dropped implied words are easy to fill in; for someone learning, it's requires significant processing.
Surely you can't be serious? I mean, to hear that someone went to Brizzy, had some brekky, and watched some footy on the telly is comprehensible to anyone.
>He and his daughter apparently thought Australia spoke some sort of pidgin English
In all fairness, there is a certain view that most English dialects are pidginized to some extent. et lest tha leksografee iz konsistent with thee observayshun.
