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I wish I were British...
- Thread starter Kwesi
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best thing out of the UK:
Doctor WHO.
nuf said.
(#*& Brilliant....
i say 'brilliant' all the time, bloody H*** Wanker....
Doctor WHO.
nuf said.
(#*& Brilliant....
i say 'brilliant' all the time, bloody H*** Wanker....
I wouldn't go that far...there's plenty of funnier things.
We must not take ourselves so seriously that we can't laugh at ourselves. Family Guy, King Of The Hill, Metalocalypse all have lots of fun with stereotypes...and when their jokes are aimed at people like me, I laugh...because it's truly funny!
Self-deprecating humor is the sign of a true class act.
Off the topic: I saw your Dead End River page - nice Bongo -
Interesting... in my Canadian neck of the woods, a closet is floor-to-ceiling storage with a regular or folding door on it, whereas a cupboard could be the exact same thing, or it could be kitchen cabinet shelving.
Despite being immersed in American media daily, I would have never in a million years noticed the difference from American usage if you hadn't pointed it out!
Say what? :^D What do you think other English speaking regions of the world think of regional American accents?? Backwoods southern, the Bronx, hillbilly, urban slang, some of those isolated island fishing communities off the east coast, etc. It's all relative to what your ear is familiar with.
And what you call a "bad" accent is just one that you personally have a hard time making out.
It is true though: there's an amazing diversity of accents and dialects over the relatively compact British Isles.
A BLT sandwich.
PG Tips - you'll find no better brew in the world.
Oh yes, I'd like to taste Marmite once. Pratchett was probably referring to Vegamite in "The Fifth Elephant", but it could be Marmite, too,
Actually, one of places in the world where I was starving (especially during breakfast time was Texas; on return via Gatwick I was so happy to get full English that my eyes were full of tears from happiness. "Welcome home!" ;-)
[Getting pancakes or a hamburger for breakfast, or a T-bone steak for dinner is not the most delightful think I'm getting in my life ;-)]
Lol, not exactly sure how we got on the topic of accents I'm just talking about common vernacular
Here's a short list of Not-so-American idioms:
Across the pond, All mouth and trousers, All talk and no trousers, Back foot, Banana skin, Barrack-room lawyer, Be up the spout, Been in the wars, Beer and skittles, Belt and braces, Bent as a nine bob note, Black as Newgate's knocker, Bob's your uncle, Box clever, Brass neck, Break your duck, Buggles' turn, By a long chalk, Cheap as chips, Chinese whispers, Coals to Newcastle, Come a cropper, Curate's egg, Daft as a brush, Damp squib, Do a Devon Loch, Do a Lord Lucan, Do the running, Dog in the manger, Drunk as a lord, Dunkirk spirit, Early bath, For donkey's years, Full Monty, Get it in the neck, Get out of your pram, Give it some stick, Give someone stick, Go spare, Gone for a burton, Grasp the nettle, Green fingers, Grey pound, Hairy at the heel, Hard cheese, Heath Robinson, Hold the baby, I should cocoa, In a tick, In rude health, In the club, Jam tomorrow, Jersey justice, Keen as mustard, Kick your heels, Laugh to see a pudding crawl, Lose your bottle, Man on the Clapham omnibus, Money for old rope, More front than Brighton, Nod's as good as a wink, Noddy work, Nosy parker, Not cricket, Not give a monkey's, Off your chump, On Carey Street, On the blink, On the blower, On the cards, On the fiddle, On the game, On the never-never, On the nod, On the trot, One over the eight, Out in the sticks, Over-egg the pudding, Pin money, Pink pound, Plain as a pikestaff, Pull your finger out!, Quart into a pint pot, Queer fish, Quids in, Right royal, See you anon, Send someone to Coventry, Shanks's pony, Sound as a pound, Spanner in the works, Spend a penny, Sticky end, Sticky wicket, Take the biscuit, Take the Mickey, Tally ho!, Tears before bedtime, Teething problems, Ten a penny, Thick as mince, Thin blue line, Three sheets in the win, Throw a spanner in the works, Up sticks, Up the duff, Up the spout, Up the stick, Vicar of Bray, Wallflower, Wood for the trees, Wouldn't touch it with a bargepole, Yeoman's service, You do not get a dog and bark yourself.
hmm
Stacatto said:
Buns(breasts).ride(to have sex) where I'm from. That makes u a sick puppy stacatto!
Heh, all very true, Bill. I like to think that I have no accent, but what I really have is a generic American one. It's because I was raised in South Florida (where nearly everyone's from somewhere else) by parents who lived all over the place as kids.I've met Americans whose accents were almost totally incomprehensible to me.
I guess we all think or our own version as being "unaccented", but the reality is everyone has their own vowels. And with US accents, just like with some accents over here, some sound pleasant to my ears and some sound bloody awful. It's a real trial to listen to some of them.
The way some of you guys pronounce the word "and" is particularly objectionable. "Eeianed..." And on the consonants front, why do you all pronounce "t" as "d" in words like "little" and "attitude"?
I did grow up believing that there were basically two British accents--posh and cockney. Must have been all that Monty Python I watched in high school.
Obviously, I know better now.On a related note, I talked regularly years ago to a British girl whose accent was pretty far from that of the Home Counties. Still found it hot.
Here's AC/DC's Brian Johnson, along with a friend of mine, singing a song in our native accent & dialect:
FWIW, I love Southern US accents... they're very 'musical'.
One question, though... I watched Fargo over the weekend. Do North Minnesotans really talk like that?
FWIW, I love Southern US accents... they're very 'musical'.
One question, though... I watched Fargo over the weekend. Do North Minnesotans really talk like that?
Skitch it! said:
There are none, I just want to say "brilliant" and not be the weird guy. That isn't to say I would dislike being british aside from that, I'm sure its awesome lol
Horny Toad said:No, THIS is the best thing:
Kwesi will eat it, and he'll enjoy it.
That has to be the most delicious looking can of fish food I've ever laid eyes on!
Kwesi, you might find this advice really useful when you visit.
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You'll damn us all
"I think not, you charlatan!"Kwesi, you might find this advice really useful when you visit.
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Wonderful.
Had a Texan spark up a conversation with me at work, apparently I made his day with my King of the Hill t-shirt
Blasphamy!
Buns(breasts).ride(to have sex) where I'm from. That makes u a sick puppy stacatto!
So many words with so many different meanings, ahh context, how we love thee
Believe it or not yes. That "Fargo" accent is pretty much found in the Dakotas, Minnesota and to a certain extent Wisconsin areas although they all have their own twist to the same basic accent.
When I first moved to Georgia from New England I had a hard time understanding a lot of the native Georgians. I got worried when I was able to understand them 6 months later.
PG Tips is wonderful but I'm partial to Punjana.
I'm German born, of Prussian and Mongolian decent, now live in the US but Scotland feels like home (particularly the Fife region and the Isle of Skye). I absolutely melt and turn into a puppy when I hear a Scottish woman speak.
BTW - blood sausage and haggis are yummy.
