【词汇大师】字典啊，字典（1/2）

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字典是我们学习语言的利器，但是我们真的会查字典吗？
TIPS
本篇对话中，主持人的对话不需要听写，只需听写嘉宾的话
主持人对话① "Well, what about papers that are submitted to your class, for example?"
主持人对话②"I was just going to ask that question! You're an English professor, so how much latitude do you give your students?"
主持人对话③"As you were working through this book, how were you answering that pressing question that people were asking you: 'Is this right, is this wrong?' You're giving us a general answer: 'Well, there's many ways to say it.'"
主持人对话④"Which is what an English learner probably doesn't want to hear."
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grammatically

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"The problem is assuming that there is such a thing as 'the dictionary.' We sometimes say 'Ah, that's not a word because it's not in the dictionary.' And there are many hundreds, many thousands of dictionaries of English. They're just made up by people."
"Well, what I try to get my students to understand is that the form of English that they are taught all through school is 'correct' English is, in fact, just one kind of English. I want my students to speak the kind of English that gets you in positions of power, gets you a job, gets you published and so on. But it's not the only correct English. And if you were to speak the way you do in an interview, if you were to speak that way at home, in a bar, in a pool hall, you'd sound like an idiot."
"Exactly, and I do have to distinguish between native speakers of English and speakers of English as a foreign language. When linguists, when professional scholars of language talk about 'the rules,' they mean the system of principles and guidelines that means 'The boy sees the girl' is a grammatically acceptable sentence' and 'Girl sees boy the the' isn't.
"The thing is, every native speaker already knows virtually every actual rule of English. If you're not a native speaker of English, you may not have learned all of those first sets of real rules, the real rules that make something acceptable to every native speaker of English."