english (sea)?

[Esdra]

English (SEA)


Hi all

I've just read that you can install a game (Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls) in English (SEA), what type of English should that be? Never heard of it. Where is it spoken? How is it different from UK or US English?

Esdra

 

[heirmiles]

Possibly "South East Asian"?

or

Sydney English Academy

or

"From sea to shining sea"

or

"Standard English American"

or

"Seattle"

or

"So Every Attempt" at English will be understood

or

South East American

or

"Some English Acronym"

 

[Esdra]

Ah South East Asian would make sense. Thank you.

but would it be different than British or American English?
We are talking about speech (in the movies and the dialogues) and written text here.

 

[heirmiles]

There are so many different forms of writing in Eastern Asia, that when people learn English they might incorporate their sounds that we don't have in English into a second set of symbols not used in our "Standard English Alphabet", which would limit them only to our 26 letters, for example, in Russia they have developed Cyrillic beyond the early Slavic forms to include many new sounds not incorporated into early Cyrillic which is based on the Greek alphabet, but definitely not limited to it, and in using our normal keyboards (english) we would need a third shift key command to incorporate their extra letters (or simply more keys). I can see the same thing happening with East Asian "alphabets".

As far as UK and US English the differences are mainly typographical, except for the signs for the Pound Sterling as opposed to the $ sign and a Euro key, but there could be more differences than I am aware of. It's a good question.