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06-26-2013, 07:31 PM | #21 |
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Any large amount of belligerence towards American English vs British English or vice-versa that I'm seeing seems to have huge racist overtones to it. A speaker of one dialect will obviously think of other dialects as strange-sounding, but saying that differences in American English proves that Americans love to steal things? That's not only absurd, it's offensive and insensible. Feel as you will about color vs colour or what have you, but if you want to insult an entire people for the language they speak, take it elsewhere.
And it still doesn't change the fact that American English is just English with a few arbitrary changes and the word American put in front of the word English.
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06-26-2013, 07:31 PM | #22 |
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i did not mean to jump to that one it just sound odd but i dont mind American English i was Brought with saying zee and on zed
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06-26-2013, 07:44 PM | #23 |
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American English is the superior version of the language.
Why? Because I declared it so. See? I can do it, too. :\
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06-27-2013, 01:05 AM | #24 |
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I'm from the Midlands but one half of my family are from London and the other half are Welsh. Due to the fact that my Welsh family are in...Wales, I've spent most of my life growing up with thick cockney accents and as such my speaking patterns are extremely lazy and very Guy Ritchie, especially if I'm tired and can't put on a 'radio voice'.
TL;DR half my friends can't understand what I am saying unless I put in extra effort to actually pronounce my words. So god help the Americans. Still, I always find it oddly insulting for some reason when I hear about American's putting on subtitles for English TV shows. I mean come on now you can't be that hard of hearing or stupid to not decipher what they are saying. |
06-27-2013, 08:41 AM | #25 |
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Well come on, how hard is it really to decipher accents? I watch a wide range of American shows that feature thick southern drawls to heavy Boston slang and I've never once had to put subtitles on.
I guess I just have better hearing.
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06-27-2013, 08:46 AM | #26 |
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06-27-2013, 08:50 AM | #27 |
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I'm talking about English people speaking English with their local dialects and accents, rather than a foreign person trying to speak a language that isn't their native tongue.
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06-27-2013, 09:20 AM | #28 |
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I'm sensing this thread might go down a dangerous road.
Well, Locke tends to like to speak his mind in a very straightforward way. Quote:
I do use subtitles for British shows too, because try as hard as I might I don't get everything. But then again, I use subs for American shows as often as I can too.
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06-27-2013, 09:24 AM | #29 |
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Spoken language is so uninteresting. Accents and dialects form all over.
Written language is so much more interesting to learn about.
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06-27-2013, 09:27 AM | #30 |
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Yeah I'm very blunt and I forget how much that offends some people, even when I'm just being honest and not trying to deliberately tread on any toes. It is my fault this thread became so heated and I apologise for that everyone. The comment about America was a bit of bitter sarcasm I wrote when very tired and I didn't intend to derail the whole thread over it...sorry.
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