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British Trinidadian Rejected In Trinidad - Page 3

Yes I agree one has to keep their eyes open and be aware of such traps. Sad that people for the most part are good but as a society things like this are acceptable.

Trinidad Rejected Trinidadian British

darius:

Of course people here use British English. Of course there is slang but a formal document written in Trinidad would read the same as one written in the UK.

British Trinidadian Rejected In Trinidad Caribbean / Tobago & Trinidad

Yes, but in Trinidad the document would never get finished because people there are lazy.

Have you forgotten?

And that is part of the reason Trinidad rejects British.

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Page 3 Trinidad Rejected Trinidadian British

Well when Manning or Panday speak they use standard British English that a British person would easily understand. I just didn't get darius' point about whether Trinidadians use British English, when it (to me at least) seems self-evident that they do.