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10-12-2014, 09:09 AM | #31 |
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10-12-2014, 09:14 AM | #32 |
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10-12-2014, 09:24 AM | #33 |
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10-12-2014, 09:29 AM | #34 |
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Ever since I got the Hola extension, I often put the BBC on in the background. Also, I watch a lot of my sports streaming from SKY1, so I hear almost as much British as I do American some days. Easy to get used to, still can't replicate it to save my life.
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10-12-2014, 09:32 AM | #35 |
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Since Donger hasn't shown up, I'll give the English side a bit of a defense
Twaddle has been in use since at least as far back as 1782 Patchy has been around since at least 1798 Aluminium was in use before aluminum It's not the fault of the British that Americans don't use more of the language. |
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10-12-2014, 09:40 AM | #36 |
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The Brits are pretty easy to figure out for the meaning for the most part. Some of the Northern dialects sound like a foreign language though.
We have some Aussies from Perth in our office. Normally they are easy to understand since they have been in the US for about half a decade but when they get excited or annoyed they are damn hard to figure out. |
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10-12-2014, 10:05 AM | #37 |
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10-12-2014, 10:17 AM | #38 |
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Really? Have you paid attention to all the stupid shit we say in this country lately?
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10-12-2014, 10:20 AM | #39 |
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Meh. English is a creole that has gained some sort of respectability. It takes the loose rules of Germanic languages and loosens them further. Throw in some words borrowed from French and every other language that English speakers encountered and you got modern English.
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10-12-2014, 10:21 AM | #40 |
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I agree. Its almost like they are trying too hard to speak. In the US, its much more direct so to speak
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10-12-2014, 10:32 AM | #42 |
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I will leave it at this - doing business w/ the UK has been a pleasure for me - though I don't do as many UK orders any more - The UK always have their shit together, I'm dealing more with Germany these days and Denmark vs the UK - but the UK were a pleasure to deal with 9 times out of 10 - & yes as sad as it sounds they usually have their shit correct and complete versus domestic orders, as bad as that may be, it's been my overall observation and perhaps it's because the volume is so much higher for domestic orders that they/you/we seem sloppier (hopefully that's spelled correctly) if not feel free to correct me since your grammar is so perfect.
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10-12-2014, 11:18 AM | #44 |
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There are a lot of American sayings, particularly southern, that confuse non Americans too. It's all a huge goat rope.
I have a friend in Korea, where I travel a lot of business, and she asks me all the time what things I say mean. And she speaks English perfectly, but textbook English so the slang confuses her a lot. Some examples: ball-park figure bark up the wrong tree beat around the bush And the previously mentioned "goat rope". She has explained Korean idioms to me too, and they are the same. Every culture has their slang, and other people think it sounds stupid. Ever hear an Aussie talk? If you think Brits say strange things go down to Louisiana some time. Or listen to Hawaiian pidgen sometime. Ho, brah, caught one ulua wen broke da mouth. Last edited by splatbass; 10-12-2014 at 11:29 AM.. |
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