Who speaks English properly? - General

[QUOTE=Vasili;19501547]There is no real way to speak English properly. Theres the Queens English. Normal English for us British. And then Yankee English.[/QUOTE] I believe the man is referring to the tendency some people have to underpronounce T's so words such as butter sound like a slurred mass of immaterial.

I wonder what my accent is called. Spent 11 years in Manchester, then moved to Surrey (Boo!) and it's a weird hybrid with me saying grass and that without Grarse, but I've lost the ferocity of the way I say words like Cup, but it's still there. I've got an accent of my own! My northern mates think I sound cockney...

English is a horrible mess of a language. It's right up there with Chinese and Arabic. There really isn't a way to speak it "properly."

I always think before I speel

Leaving out certain letters is probably their regional accent. And for the one's that can't type, they are just idiots.

I do if i'm talking face to face with someone, over MSN and the internet in general i'm not bothered how i spell. I don't speak in a dialect and pronounce my words correctly, unless i'm mocking someone who speaks with an annoying dialect.

I'd say there is no 'Proper English' only fragments mangled into different cultures which form the whole English language.

I'm from Philadelphia so, no. Same goes for you Pittsburgh folk. You're not any better!

I speak words from the English language in such a way that people understand what I'm saying. What more do you want of me?

British Received Pronunciation is the standard in England. It's what you hear high class Brits speaking.

[QUOTE=Ibutsu;19501631]Without British English, there'd be no American English. End of.[/QUOTE] The fuck is British English? Thats you pretty much saying "English English"

I speak English without much of an accent, e.g. similar to to people who read the news.

My mother is British and I frequent the UK often, so I say some words, like my mum, and often get teased for it. I enjoy it though. I wish I had more of an accent. I have a perfect british accent impersonation, and it's much more comfortable to speak like that. So, a lot of us in my family have conversation in a british accent for a lone period of time. It seems the easiest British accent to immitate is the one where you barely enunciate your words.

Americans claiming they speak more correct English than English people are stupid. It's spelled colour, so fuck you.

hoaw do i spaekk enlis in general i wan t lern a goodd

i spekk ver gud enlish lol

I speak English quite fluently.

People from England speak English properly. Largely because we invented it. And then Americans simplified it because using a U in words like Armour is too hard for them. And a T sounds like a T, not a fucking D. And Mirror is not pronounced as fuckin Mir. TL;DR Americans fuck shit up as usual. Sequels are never as good as the originals. (Aliens not included)

Scotland :D

[QUOTE=Aurain;19511508]People from England speak English properly. Largely because we invented it. And then Americans simplified it because using a U in words like Armour is too hard for them. And a T sounds like a T, not a fucking D. And Mirror is not pronounced as fuckin Mir. TL;DR Americans fuck shit up as usual. Sequels are never as good as the originals. (Aliens not included)[/QUOTE] You didn't invent English. It evolved over time from Scandinavian, French, and Germanic languages. As for you Brits using proper grammar, you guys still can't figure out how to use "have" and "got" correctly.

[QUOTE=Karlos;19509721]Americans claiming they speak more correct English than English people are stupid. It's spelled color, so fuck you.[/QUOTE] According to Fire fox spell-check it is wrong it's color.

Thee hraighn in Sspaighn forlls maighnlee orn thee hplaighn.

[QUOTE=lemon_lover;19501520]After watching a few shows from the UK, I got to thinking, who speaks English properly? I know that what we now call the English language originated in, you guessed it, England, but It seems to me (Although I could easily be wrong as I'm not a English major) that people from the UK don't speak proper English. Such as using "F" instead of "TH" and leaving out the "H" in words like "Head". I understand that there are dialects but still, there is always going to be a "Correct" way to speak English. I'm not trying to put down the British or start a debate on which countries are the best, just who speaks the closest to proper English. Another question, is the language taught in the UK like that or is it taught to be pronounced the correct way and just not followed? Now I know that there are parts of the US which also has it's share of language deviations (e.g. The deep south, New Jersey, etc.) but where I live it's pretty straightforward.[/QUOTE] I sound like a fucking cunt. I try to clean it up a bit when I speak to other but when it's all me (IE intoxicated) I soun' like a fuh-in mooron with my Briish accen.

Wow some incredible morons in this thread. Especially tankkiller.

yo brehs i in the cal area and down here we be speakin english hella ched.

OP thinks all Britons are cockneys.

[QUOTE=justin gurel;19502031]im surprised no one brought this up [img]http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/jayfootball72/EnglishMotherFuker.png[/img][/QUOTE] I loved that movie...

Mid Western USA speaks English the right way, everyone else with their garbled up accents can piss off. :clint:

It's fun-guy not fun-jeye

[QUOTE=tankkiller;19502021]American English is the best because we don't have worthless silent/stupid letters on the ends of our words, I mean seriously. It's: Arm Or, not Arm Our Col Or, not Col Our Hon Or, not Hon Our Cent Er, not Cent Re (Sounds like Sentry if you say it Re instead of Er) Program, not Programme Etc Say color and some of those other words and you won't hear anything close to a Our or a Re, you'll hear a Or or Er.[/QUOTE] Canadian English is the best because we spell things properly, I mean seriously. It's: Arm Our, not Arm Or Col Our, not Col Or Hon Our, not Hon Or Cent Re, not Cent Er (Sounds like you are saying "Er..." if you say Er instead of Re) Programme, not Program Etc Say color and some of those other words and you won't hear anything close to a Or or a Er, you'll hear a Our or Re.