[QUOTE=Doozle;28238413]A man with a thick Glasweigein accent talks about Americanisms
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnGPgCVJUsI[/media][/QUOTE]
Woah. Do Americans really pronounce Pharmacy farmASSee?
Soccer
Whoops just started a shit storm.
I love my accent :buddy: :scotland:
[QUOTE=mrkaki;28240535]Woah. Do Americans really pronounce Pharmacy farmASSee?[/QUOTE]
We actually pronounce it farm-A-see.
[QUOTE=Kylel999;28235033]My history teacher in 8th grade told us that we changed the way we said things on purpose, because we were so angry at the British? Even then I was laughing, because I knew how fucking stupid she was. I mean, this is the same stupid bitch that said Iceland really is this big:
[img_thumb]http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/dynimg/IC182476.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
That's Greenland you div.
[QUOTE=Kylel999;28234824]Bitch please. Nobody's got anything on us New Jersey-ans (?). We talk so fast nobody can even understand us, and we slur our sentences into one clusterfuck of letters.
Example: "You alright, man? That looked really painful." -> "Yoriteman? Thatlookreallehpainful"[/QUOTE]
You obviously haven't heard a Scouse accent.
[QUOTE=David29;28239127]Shouldn't you be speaking Vietnamese, then?[/QUOTE]
We didn't lose.
We left. :911:
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Also elevator/lift.
i switch between colour and color. got out of the habit of using colour because of a programming class.
[QUOTE=MasterG;28240406]Society.[/QUOTE]
which society because americans don't do this
Personally i see British English as the refined english, more proper.
American English is perfectly fine but is also the lazier form of english.
Also American english can be spoken more quickly which leads to words commonly being slurred or omitted completely.
so you're saying americans are lazy?
Don't they spell tire "tyre"?
[QUOTE=Ardosos;28243133]Don't they spell tire "tyre"?[/QUOTE]They also spell 'lynx' as 'linx'
[QUOTE=Xenoyia v2;28233535]Americans stole british english and ruined some pronunciations.[/QUOTE]
It doesn't really matter. It's not like we're butchering the language.
[QUOTE=mrkaki;28240535]Woah. Do Americans really pronounce Pharmacy farmASSee?[/QUOTE]
FAR-MUH-SEE. That's how I pronounce it.
"American English " = American Dialect. It is not a version of english.
One is great for presentation, the other for direct communication.
I'm sure we all know which one is for which.
[QUOTE=Coffee;28234345]If you think American and British English is bad, you should come to Manchester, we make new words every week.
"ee ar" - here you are my good fellow
"Yorite" - are you okay my good chum?
"ar kid" - very good acquaintance
"ya buzzin?" - are you having a good time old chap?
"gaff" - humble abode
"sack it" - stop[/QUOTE]
up in old nedland a "gaff" is a cigarrete
"i'm gan oot fir a gaff" - I am exiting the current building to inhale a cigarette
In England a fag is a cigarette
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;28243044]so you're saying americans are lazy?[/QUOTE]
I will agree to that if and only if you can find in my post where i said american's are lazy.
I'd say categorizing American English as a single dialect of English is a bit hasty. There are huge regional differences, from North to South, East to West, and Ethnic variations.
I happen to prefer the British English spellings and pronunciation for some words such as Colour. Usually I'm utilitarian in regards to language and measurements, but spelling has more refinement I think. That being said I prefer American diction for day-to-day conversation.
Personally, as an american, i PREFER the british dialect, it leaves less room for confusion. It also makes you actually enunciate words so there is less need for someone to ask "can you repeat that?". Unless the accent is thick.
Relevant:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2-ukrd2VQ[/media]
The one I always thought was peculiar was how some british accents will add a subtle "r" sound to the ends of words that end with an "ah" sound. I also saw on a program about language how in some of the more rural areas they will at an "r" sound to "I" sounds. So "time" becomes sort of a "turyme"
[QUOTE=NoDachi;28240300]The biggest lol is LAZOR.
The idiots didn't realise it was an acronym.[/QUOTE]
Yea, it's sure a good thing that we don't spell it like that, isn't it?
There is not a single person in America who spells laser "lazer" or "lazor"
We do not say "could care less"
And we definitely don't say "get on the dusty trail" (that very phrase makes me gag)
Seriously, where are you crazy brits getting this shit from?
[QUOTE=The Vman;28244113]The one I always thought was peculiar was how some british accents will add a subtle "r" sound to the ends of words that end with an "ah" sound. I also saw on a program about language how in some of the more rural areas they will at an "r" sound to "I" sounds. So "time" becomes sort of a "turyme"
Yea, it's sure a good thing that we don't spell it like that, isn't it?
There is not a single person in America who spells laser "lazer" or "lazor"
We do not say "could care less"
And we definitely don't say "get on the dusty trail" (that very phrase makes me gag)
Seriously, where are you crazy brits getting this shit from?[/QUOTE]
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This thing, I think it's called the TV.
[QUOTE=Coffee;28244155][img_thumb]http://www.home-entertainment-news.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/lg-26lg3000-lcd-tv-television.gif[/img_thumb]
This thing, I think it's called the TV.[/QUOTE]
Don't you mean the Telly :downs:
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I think we can all agree that Jamaican Patois is the superior form of English
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXLQDZgMmUI&playnext=1&list=PL3A4D695D46ABA9F8[/media]
Midwestern Accent is a neutral and basic accent which seems to be the most correct form. However, there is no reason not to speak or spell a certain way as long as it's easy for you.
However, when some Scottish people talk I can't understand a word they are saying.
[QUOTE=Explosions;28244593]Midwestern Accent is a neutral and basic accent which seems to be the most correct form. However, there is no reason not to speak or spell a certain way as long as it's easy for you.
However, when some Scottish people talk I can't understand a word they are saying.[/QUOTE]
I always thought the northwest accent was the most correct form.
Have you ever head of a Washingtonian accent? No. That's because we don't have one.
american dialect supremacy
We pronounce things in the correct way that the letters were meant to be pronounced.
For example, t makes a tuh sound, not a chew sound.
Therefore toosday, not chewsday, because we are pronouncing the t correctly not in the strange mangled series of mumbles you call "British English"
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