读了《世界知识》今年第5期所载《美国英语漫谈》一文,很感兴趣。最近在一份世界语刊物上看到一篇也是谈英语的文章,其中所讲的一些情况也颇有意思,爰摘录如下,或可作为前文的一点补充。随着英语在全世界的不断扩展,英语也在不断地分化和嬗变。小范围内(乡村或小地方)的英语方言虽然逐渐消失了,却又出现了大量的大范围的“方言”——懊大利亚的、新西兰的、非洲的等等。据美国普林斯顿大学一教授论证,有朝一日,美国人和澳大利亚人相遇时很可能必须经过翻译才能交谈,因 It was very interesting to read the article “American English Talk” contained in the fifth edition of World Knowledge. A recent article in Esperanto that is also about English, some of which is also very interesting, can be extracted as follows, or can be added as a supplement. With the continuous expansion of English in the world, English is constantly changing and changing. Although the English dialects in small areas (villages or small places) gradually disappeared, a large number of large-scale “dialects” -Australia, New Zealand, Africa, etc. emerged. According to a professor at Princeton University in the United States, one day, when Americans meet Australians, they probably have to be translated before they can talk because