L’ANGLAIS, C’EST TROP DUR
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Surtout dans l’aviation. L’anglais de base ne semble pas très difficile à apprendre. Mais la prononciation peut devenir assez pénible pour certains. L’utilisation de cette langue en aviation notamment par deux correspondants qui ne l’ont pas comme langue maternelle peut devenir problématique. Je pense notamment à l’accident de Ténériffe en 1977. Il s’agissait bel et bien d’une mauvaise compréhension entre le contrôleur espagnol et le pilote néerlandais.
En effet, l’anglais est une langue qui, outre le fait qu’elle ne brille pas la clarté et la précision, comporte des dizaines de variantes ainsi recensées dans l’édition 1999 d’Encarta World English Dictionary :
BRITISH AND IRISH ENGLISH : English English, Scottish English, Scots, Welsh English, Irish English
AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND ENGLISH : Australian English, Aboriginal English, Maori English, New Zealand English
EAST ASIAN ENGLISH : Philippines English, Hawaiian English, Singapore English, Hong Kong English, Malaysian English
SOUTH ASIAN ENGLISH : Sri Lankan English, Bangladeshi English, Pakistani English, Indian English
AFRICAN ENGLISH : Nigerian English, Ghanaian English, Sierra Leone English, East African Englishes, South African English
CARRIBEAN ENGLISH : Jamaican English, Patwa, Bahamian, Barbadian/Bajan, Trinidadian
CANADIAN ENGLISH : Inuit English, Quebec English, Canadian Standard English, Atlantic Provinces English
AMERICAN ENGLISH : Northern, Appalachian English, Southern, Western, African American Vernacular English/Ebonics, Native American Englishes
Un poème dénué de sens pour illustrer la folie de l’anglais.
Selon un de ses documents publiés, la FAA voudrait que tous les pilotes et tous les contrôleurs puissent converser en anglais sur des sujets de tous les jours. Ce poème montre tous les pièges qui empêchent les étrangers d’apprendre l’anglais convenablement. Même des gens dont c’est leur langue maternelle ont des difficultés à lire ce poème à haute voix.
Essayer de le faire vous-même. Lisez-le à haute voix:
ENGLISH IS TOUGH STUFF / L’ANGLAIS C’EST TROP DUR
| Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head wish heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. |
| Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak. Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem , and toe. |
| Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar. Solar, mica war, and far, One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind. |
| Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation’s OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. |
| Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhyme with hammer. River, fiver, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Nor does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, |
| Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. Inquiry does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific. |
| Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover, Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label. |
| Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Marie, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean, Doctrine, turpentine, marine. |
| Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion with battalion. Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey and key, Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary, Crevice and device and aerie. |
| Face, but preface, not efface, Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass, Large, but target, gin, give, verging, Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and tear Do not rhyme with here but there. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Steven, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. |
| Pronunciation � think of Psyche! Is a paling stout and spiky? Won’t it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits? It’s a dark abyss or tunnel: Strewn with stones, stowed solace, gunwale, |
| Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict. Finally, which rhymes with enough: Though , through, plough, dough, or cough ? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is to give up! |
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