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Author:  okenobi [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 1:49 pm ]
Post subject:  The English Language
OMG LIKE TOTALLY:

http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/empire-states/post/p891
Author:  adidan [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 2:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
It's been going on since we colonised the place.
Author:  rustybucket [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 2:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
In another thread, adidan wrote:
Zippy wrote:
They both want to stay friends, but only if I denounce the other

Both sound like a couple of assholes to be honest.

Arseholes.

Assholes is an Americanism. ;)
Author:  pcernie [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 3:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
It is off-putting when you hear 'Americanisms' in ostensibly Brit stuff (but that's the problem with not having our own industry I spose).

Also, we're especially guilty when it comes to our own music and musicians - if 'singers' aren't doing that non-descript warbling, they're losing their accents altogether and finding Yank ones... Not to mention you can actually tell from some albums when a band has been trying to crack the States :lol:
Author:  okenobi [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 3:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
Yankisms slip out of my mouth every now and then. Largely due to the blurring of our cultures as a whole, massive amounts of American television and movies and the fact that I have friends over there.

But I object to British characters saying the wrong thing. Just as I hate dodgy accents on both sides. There's no excuse when plenty of people can do it properly.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 4:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
okenobi wrote:
Yankisms slip out of my mouth every now and then. Largely due to the blurring of our cultures as a whole, massive amounts of American television and movies and the fact that I have friends over there.

But I object to British characters saying the wrong thing. Just as I hate dodgy accents on both sides. There's no excuse when plenty of people can do it properly.

Well don't tell Russell Crowe that.
Author:  rustybucket [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
Amnesia10 wrote:
okenobi wrote:
Yankisms slip out of my mouth every now and then. Largely due to the blurring of our cultures as a whole, massive amounts of American television and movies and the fact that I have friends over there.

But I object to British characters saying the wrong thing. Just as I hate dodgy accents on both sides. There's no excuse when plenty of people can do it properly.

Well don't tell Russell Crowe that.

Well said, sir.

And as for Don Cheadle...
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
I am no good at accents but them I am not an actor or had any training. Though I do get annoyed with the americanisms to make it easier for them to understand. Get an British-American phrase book if it is a problem! :roll:
Author:  adidan [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
rustybucket wrote:
In another thread, adidan wrote:
Zippy wrote:
They both want to stay friends, but only if I denounce the other

Both sound like a couple of assholes to be honest.

Arseholes.

Assholes is an Americanism. ;)

I thought the forum would LIFTED it out.

Ah well. Like I say though it's been going on since we made it a colony. Where do you think we got the word 'okay' from?
Author:  Spreadie [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:47 am ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
As long as we continue to consume American pop culture by the tonne, we should not be surprised, or have the right to complain when Americanisms creep into our language. We force-feed it to our kids, along with the Big Mac and fries and a large diet Coke, then stand there aghast when we hear one call the other an asshole.

Yes, yes, of course, we are British. The right to whinge and moan is written into our DNA. To be perfectly honest I [LIFTED] hate it, because it makes sound like a bunch of whining tw@ts.

The idea of an unsullied English language is long dead, get over it.
Author:  HeatherKay [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:55 am ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
Spreadie wrote:
because it makes sound like a bunch of whining tw@ts.


That's our heritage you're talking about. :lol:

To be honest, as I get older, I'm happy that English evolves. It's a living language, after all. It's absorbed and recycled all manner of words from all the other languages it's encountered over the centuries. Bungalow and pyjamas are just two imported words, for example.

I do worry, though, that the USA is abusing our gift to them. :mrgreen:
Author:  Spreadie [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:11 am ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
HeatherKay wrote:
Spreadie wrote:
because it makes sound like a bunch of whining tw@ts.


That's our heritage you're talking about. :lol:

Can you work that in somehow, for the photo comp? :D
Author:  TheFrenchun [ Thu May 23, 2013 1:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
So is there, or is there not a rhyme for "orange"

and I will leave this poem here

"Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscle
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich"
Author:  oceanicitl [ Thu May 23, 2013 2:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
TheFrenchun wrote:
So is there, or is there not a rhyme for "orange"

and I will leave this poem here

"Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscle
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich"


Do you come from the land down under? lol Ear worm! Thanks
Author:  oceanicitl [ Thu May 23, 2013 2:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
TheFrenchun wrote:
So is there, or is there not a rhyme for "orange"


Blancmange?
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