Kaleidoscope

Extract

Kaleidoscope is a showcase for special varieties of English. Each issue of ET displays one or more samples, along with notes and illustrations to clarify certain words and usages or to add more information about them. Usually, we cover one ethnic or cultural variety, where English is in contact with an entirely different language, and one social, occupational or technical variety, where the special usages relate to a particular interest group. In this issue, the cultural variety is Standard English used for the discussion of cattle-breeding in Africa, and the technical variety is the language of video games.