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American / British English

Secret Chief

Secret Chief

Veteran Member
All these asterixes makes for a good game!

Yes, the drunk / angry one is strange! As a Brit when I hear an American use it I can't help but think 'they don't seem drunk...'
 
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Onkara

Well-Known Member
France and Spain have institute to define and protect their language. Inglish is a free for all it seems.
 
Terrywoodenpic

Terrywoodenpic

Oldest Heretic
Seyorni said:
American English is just more conservative than the faddish British version, with all their newfangled expressions and simplified grammar.

We still retain grammatical number ("the team was defeated" vs "were defeated") and the distinction between got and gotten. We still retain the rhotic 'R'. We've even been heard to use subjunctives.
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As far as I have ever known, a Team is a collective word so singular, so i is followed by was. It it is followed by were, it would be Teams were.

The British know when to pronounce "R" and when not to. The Americans are more simplistic.
 
RitalinO.D.

RitalinO.D.

Well-Known Member
Terrywoodenpic said:
Because in English it is P1$$ed off
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Nowadays I actually hear more people using that phrase without the "off", so I can understand how it might be confusing to some.

Something I've always wondered however, the scene in Austin Powers, where Austin and his father are sitting on the bed talking to eachother in "british English", and it shows the subs below so you actually know what they are saying...can you guys really have an entire conversation like that? If so, that's crazy, cause without the subs, There is no way I would have known wtf they were talking about.
 
Secret Chief

Secret Chief

Veteran Member
As has been pointed out , languages evolve. Or at least they should, the French attempt at maintaining purity is futile and would only atrophy an organic phenomenon. One reason English is so global ( aside from British Empire and American dominance currently) is that it is so open to change, malleable and adaptive.

Regarding Austin Powers, British people from around the country can find it difficult to follow speech due to dialects.
 
oldbadger

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
Father Heathen said:
To be "******" means to be angry in the U.S., while in the U.K. it means to be drunk.
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Ha ha..... :) 'p-ssed' means drunk and 'p-ssed off' means fed up or angry in U.K..

OK...... what do you call the manoeuvre where you turn a car right round to face the other way (in a street)? We call it a 'three point turn'. You call it something funny!

And who ever heard of a gear-shift? It's a stick! :D

It's all funny over your side. In Mexico you get Mexicans, Canada - Canadians, United States you get get United Statia.... Unitian.... Statia... Err Americans! :biglaugh:
 
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