No, dear student,

No, dear student,

  • Basque is NOT “a Baltic language”.
  • English does NOT “derive from Latin”.
  • Russian and Czech are NOT “non-European languages”.
  • Luxemburgish is NOT “a mixture of German and French”.
  • Schwa is NOT “when you do not pronounce a phoneme in a sentence”.
  • Vowels are NOT “usually voiceless”.
  • There were NO experiments “carried out by Noam Chomsky and his famous monkey Nim Chimpsky”.
  • Russian and Czech are NOT “Cyrillic languages”.
  • English does NOT have “five vowels only”.
  • Schwa is NOT “part of a dialect and grammatically seen as wrong, and it is NOT true that “American people often pronounce it in that way, whereas English people don’t”.
  • Finnish and Basque do NOT “belong to the Celtic group” and Russian and Czech are NOT “Eastern Germanic languages”.
  • functional morphemes are NOT divided into “inflectional and flectional” morphemes
  • the Standard Pronunciation of Standard English is NOT called “Renowned Pronunciation”
  • the supposed conservatism of colonial varieties of English is NOT called “colonial lack”
  • Roger Ascham was NOT “a man who made up theories of education”
  • Oralism is NOT “a kind of sign language”.
  • Schwa is NOT “defined as a glottal stop and very important”.
  • English is NOT “the world language because it is easy”.
  • The sentence “I can’t get no satisfaction” is NOT “grammatically wrong but linguistically right”.
  • The episode in the Bible of God telling Adam to name each animal is NOT “only true for the Catholic religion”.
  • Schwa is NOT “a special phone which only occurs in the last syllable”.
  • Portuguese and Romanian are NOT “Southern Germanic languages”.
  • Schwa is NOT “a very, very short sound”.
  • Splitting infinitives is NOT correct “because English is a language that has its origin in Latin and in Latin it is allowed to split infinitives”.
  • It is NOT true that “Basque and Finnish are not really a language”.