Colour? I mean, really? It's color!

And what about their pronouncing superfluous consonants. Like the "h" in herb. It's "erb" guys---not herb.




And then your apallling use of slang words.

I mean, Trainers? REALLY? Who's training? What are they training for?
It's "Sneakers" guys. I mean, really. S-n-e-a-k-e-r-s. lawd.



Furthermore, if you're going to mess up the Queen's English (I'm speaking about Queen Latifa, or even Lady Gaga if you will), why be so smug about it? We Americans have on way too many occasions rescued you and ensured your ability to speak English--at least try and speak it with the correct accent and write it with the correct spelling. I mean, please respect that. If not for us, you'd probably be speaking German. lawd.




Anyways, I want this thread to be about the things we have in common and not our differences. I love all of you.



GROUP. HUG.

first!

why DID the Usasians change all the spelling?

ZombieKitten said:

A wise Brit that I know says they changed the smelling to dumb it down.

MrsMdiver said:

And another thing I don't get, Val is why they're always trying to copy the Australians with their accent. It just ends up sounding kind of fake.

Like they're being Aussie Posers, you know what I mean?

I mean, it's not that hard to speak English with a proper mid-west, American accent--that way you can garner some respect and marketability during your next job interview.

Nobody wants to interview somebody who responds, "Thanks, Mate. Moi Mum eeensisted Oiy go to Uni to git mah Eeeducayshon, know wha oiy meen?"

TheVoid said:

edjakayshun thank you very much

MrsMdiver said:

or simply to be "difficult"

TheVoid said:

Hubby does a pretty good American accent.

Here is what I really do not get.....


all of my friends (girls ) back home love to hear a British accent. I come here and no one is impressed with my American accent.
I hear "Wow..you do not sound American"! When I ask what they mean, they say "Your voice is not loud and obnoxious like most American's!".


I have also been asked if I am Canadian or Australian because I do not have accent.

It is not fair...I want an accent!

MrsMdiver said:

do you mean that nasally quality? I don't think it's lack of accent, because (I know it's unbelievable!!!) but americans actually DO have an accent!

ZombieKitten said:

And LORD HAMMERCY, what is up with calling a bathroom a water closet?

Have they learned nothing from hundreds of years of Roman occupation?

ZombieKitten said:

My fake British accent is no where as good as Dan's.

TheVoid said:

Wotsta tryint' say cock?

THIS IS A PROPER ACCENT FOLKS:

TheVoid said:

OK, yeah we don't do that down here

we call it what it is A TOILET, or dunny, if we feel ocker

TheVoid said:

Not many people can speak without fullstops

ZombieKitten said:

It's a Bog ere

Steadwood said:

STEADY!!!!!

TheVoid said:

All reet Dan

Steadwood said:

The Amelda Marcos line killed me dead.

TheVoid said:

I had to run the last bit a few times... have I got this right...

He wants a cute alien girlfriend with no tattoos who won't put any weird stuff on him except his glasses which he thinks are cool

i'm in accent purgatory. years of living in North America has dulled my natural accent.

Americans and Canadians still classify me as English and my friends and family in the UK tell me i sound like a Yank.

i do grow bored of people in America saying 'listen to this guy, he sounds like the Geico lizard!'

whistle said:

you wouldn't be accent-less to me!!!

ZombieKitten said:

just another bloody Pom, i reckon...

whistle said:

TheVoid said:

Context and definition are everything - Brits (of which I am one) do not call a bathroom a water closet; we call a bathroom a bathroom - however IMO a room with a toilet and a sink but no bath e.g a lavatory is a water closet.


okay I have now finished being snooty and condenscending

STFU dan

MrsMdiver said:

Mushanga said:

did you change that to SMELLING or was it already like that

ZombieKitten said:

No, there is something very wrong with this whole conversation, esp. that quote..