Raksmey
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« on: November 26, 2007, 12:53:07 AM » |
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Hi all of u out there! i'm happy to have something to share with all of u again. Now i have some questions to ask all of u. Maybe most of u, if not all, know the new some from sean Kingston, "Me Love". Well, i really have no idea what these two words mean. And i keep wondering till yesterday when i saw a movie about Santa and his elves. I saw that the characters us a lot of phrases like these: me friends, me pleasure, me... And i have a feeling that "me" here means the same as "my". So the song "Me Love" may mean "My Love". OK, now my questions are:
1. Can we really use the words such as "me love" to mean "my love"?
2. What kind of language is it? informal? slang? old-fashioned?
3. Is it correct to use it in writing?
Well, i hope u all will share ur ideas with me soon.
Thank u
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« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2007, 01:10:53 AM » |
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Hey, I don't think it's strange. "Me love" is not formal English, but it's used in speaking.
Usually when speaking, people seem to find it rather "long" to say "My love, my friend...", so they just say "me love, me friend".
It's the same as "I don't know" and "I dunno"; "Give me" and "Gimme"; "I want to" and "I wanna".
So, that is speaking language.
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« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2007, 01:24:30 AM » |
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What about this sentence" Have you a car? or Do you have a car? Which one is correct Hi all of u out there! i'm happy to have something to share with all of u again. Now i have some questions to ask all of u. Maybe most of u, if not all, know the new some from sean Kingston, "Me Love". Well, i really have no idea what these two words mean. And i keep wondering till yesterday when i saw a movie about Santa and his elves. I saw that the characters us a lot of phrases like these: me friends, me pleasure, me... And i have a feeling that "me" here means the same as "my". So the song "Me Love" may mean "My Love". OK, now my questions are:
1. Can we really use the words such as "me love" to mean "my love"?
2. What kind of language is it? informal? slang? old-fashioned?
3. Is it correct to use it in writing?
Well, i hope u all will share ur ideas with me soon.
Thank u
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« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2007, 06:59:49 PM » |
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English speakers in many regions say 'me + noun' instead of 'my + noun'. This is OK in dialect, but is non-standard in general usage and would be regarded as wrong if you did it in writing. If someone with a strong Cockney accent does it, they are just speaking their local variant of English.As you are a non-native speaker, I would strongly advise you against doing this; people will just think you are making a grammatical mistake.
However, when speaking, the word often changes so that instead of sound like cry/die/try it becomes a short i sound, like the one in bit/sit. This is a natural sound change that makes words flow together and is fine in connected speech. As this is a sound change for speech alone, it would not be shown in writing, just as we can pronounce 'the' in two ways but only write it in one.
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« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2008, 01:14:37 AM » |
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Hi,
So is it possible for these: Me love=My Love=Ma love ?
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« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2008, 07:36:11 PM » |
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Yep... And ' the way I are ' from Timbaland  |
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« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2008, 07:42:31 PM » |
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Thanks Rachada, Uh huh.. that one as well! |
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« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2008, 02:27:53 AM » |
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Actually, I found some of music lyrics do not care about grammar or anything. Like " Right now, he's probably up behind her with a pool-stick, showing her how to shoot a combo.... and He don't know..... in Before He Cheats by Carrie Underwood". I have no idea why like that. |
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« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2008, 09:45:18 PM » |
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U are in hot water if you deeply think about grammar in poem, song or drama, mate!!!!!!!!!!!
In such term context, most of them consist of unusual language,which we have ever seen or heart; or we can say they are old fashioned or out of dated word or gramma.
As I experienced myself via my 4 year in English University department, I saw poem is the unusual and no-precise rule in writing such contexts; due to they have their own rules seperately.
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« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2008, 12:03:14 PM » |
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Yes, I agree with Kimlong!! Never try to find grammer in Poems, Songs, Movies..
If you want to find good grammer, new contexts, read Novels, read Newspapers, read Magazines...
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