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Americans are angry with us for polluting their language
The Telegraph ^
| February 7, 2011
| Kath Hinton
Posted on 02/07/2011 5:08:46 AM PST by NCjim
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To: MaryFromMichigan
I don't see your average Conservative using such silly affectations. Talk about someone sounding pretentious, have you ever heard the more than average Conservative Rush Limbaugh pronounce 'schedule'?
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posted on
02/07/2011 6:09:45 AM PST
by
varon
(Allegiance to the Constitution, always. Allegiance to a party, never!)
To: NCjim
Americans who use Britishisms tend to want people to think they are sophisticated. Reporters,Actors,Liberals,Democrat politicians.
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posted on
02/07/2011 6:11:15 AM PST
by
normy
(Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
To: NCjim
My favo[u]rite:
Room Service:
“Morny. Ruin sorbees”
Guest:
“Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service”
Room Service:
“Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??”
Guest:
“Uh..yes..I’d like some bacon and eggs”
Room Service:
“Ow July den?”
Guest:
“What??”
Room Service:
“Ow July den?...pry,boy, pooch?”
Guest:
“Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please.”
Room Service:
“Ow July dee bayhcem...crease?”
Guest:
“Crisp will be fine.”
Room Service:
“Hokay. An San toes?”
Guest:
“What???”
Room Service:
“San toes. July San toes?”
Guest:
“Uhh... I don’t think so”
Room Service:
“No? Judo one toes??”
Guest:
“I feel really bad about this, but I don’t know what ‘judo one toes’ means.”
Room Service:
“Toes! toes!...why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we bother?”
Guest:
“Oh, English muffin!! I’ve got it! You were saying ‘Toast.’ Fine.” Yes, an English muffin will be fine.”
Room Service:
“We bother?”
Guest:
“No. Just put the bother on the side.”
Room Service:
“Wad?”
Guest:
“I mean butter...just put it on the side.”
Room Service:
“Copy?”
Guest:
“Sorry???”
Room Service:
“Copy...tea...mill?”
Guest:
“Yes. Coffee please, and that’s all.”
Room Service:
“One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy....rye??”
Guest:
“Whatever you say.”
Room Service:
“Tendjewberrymud.”
Guest:
“You’re welcome.”
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posted on
02/07/2011 6:12:15 AM PST
by
MrB
(Tagline suspended for important announcement on my about page. Click my handle.)
To: Captain PJ
seperation = separation? ;)
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posted on
02/07/2011 6:12:19 AM PST
by
bt_dooftlook
(Democrats - the party of Amnesty, Abortion, and Adolescence)
To: Vor Lady
I think this has been around longer than you think. It's fairly new to me but of course when one's senile, everything is.
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posted on
02/07/2011 6:13:26 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
To: Vor Lady
The biggest English-speaking country in the world is India.
It is possible that in the future Americans and Brits will all be speaking “dialects” of proper English, which is the Indian version.
To: Captain PJ
No kidding. I’ll take “gobsmacked” and “kerfuffle” any day of the week over “we be chillin” and “shiz.”
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posted on
02/07/2011 6:14:35 AM PST
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
To: jiggyboy
I lived in Reading, Pa. for awhile, believe me, I got my fill of PA Dutchisms. But I do loves me some shoo fly pie.
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posted on
02/07/2011 6:16:18 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
To: varon
have you ever heard the more than average Conservative Rush Limbaugh pronounce 'schedule'? I believe Rush uses it as an over much continuing "funny", after all, he went to shool too.
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posted on
02/07/2011 6:18:48 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
To: NCjim
I think it’s cute when Brits try to speak American...
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posted on
02/07/2011 6:19:06 AM PST
by
Tailback
To: Daveinyork
Unless you are in Pennsylvania, I presume you are in York and are probably a redheaded descendent of the Vikings who colonized the place and ultimately passed beyond the ken of history, no doubt from indigestion.
Only someone with the palate of a goat could find those dishes comestible
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posted on
02/07/2011 6:20:37 AM PST
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: Graybeard58
I believe Rush uses it as an over much continuing "funny", after all, he went to shool too.
I think you mean, "scruel".
To: NCjim
I seen the accident, is not Brit. The infusion of the misuse of verbs comes from Americans. And the worst part of it is, some Americans do not know what the verb fault is in the first sentence.
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posted on
02/07/2011 6:25:09 AM PST
by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a U.S. Marine.)
To: Tailback
My battery’s gone flat.
What? Did you run over it?
No, it’s gone flat - my car won’t start!
Oh! Your battery’s dead!
No... it never was alive.
74
posted on
02/07/2011 6:25:12 AM PST
by
MrB
(Tagline suspended for important announcement on my about page. Click my handle.)
To: nathanbedford
Actually I’m a Jew of Latvian/Hungarian descent.
To: NCjim
I personally don’t know any Americans who are angry about this.
To: MrB
That’s one of my favorites. :)
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posted on
02/07/2011 6:26:29 AM PST
by
RoseyT
To: NCjim
Only concerned with you people polluting our politics with your Islamophilia, Hoplophobia and general socialist one world globalism.
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posted on
02/07/2011 6:26:46 AM PST
by
ZULU
(No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
To: reagan_fanatic; NCjim
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posted on
02/07/2011 6:26:58 AM PST
by
1066AD
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I use bum over butt—it was passed down from my English mom. She’s been out of England so long though, she isn’t familiar with most of the British slang words they use now.
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