Posted on 03/26/2016 8:42:11 AM PDT by the scotsman
if a democrat or socialist is elected- we may very well become part of the EU-
Rotherham rape scandal - police consider it worse to be called racist for going after Pakistani Muslim gangs because they are all Pakistani and Muslim, versus 1400+ underaged poor white girls groomed, raped, often prostituted out.
And over 100 mixed raced children for DNA testing, girls who reported rape changed to consent in paperwork to avoid admitting the problem, the first female investigator into the issue sent to diversity training, two fathers arrested trying to get daughters back for disturbing the peace.
It’s BBC, meant for British press.
English in England and English in America are two different branches of the same tree.
“We are two peoples separated by a common language.”
Winston Churchill
Ours is English, not a clue what yours is. LOL
The unwanted black sheep child kept in the closet at the family reunion?
The disfavored youngest son who would go to India or Africa to find his fortune?
Now tell the English spoken in Glasgow, Scotland, UK is better than the English spoken in Eagle Pass, Texas, USA!
The rest of Scotland can’t understand the average Glaswegian!
I understood what they meant, but it’s still dumb, “Brussels tweet man.”
Yes, but English slang is different.
I’ve watched enough Doctor Who and Top Gear that I can translate a lot of it.
Like “bangers and mash.”
Why can’t they just say “sausage and mashed taters? “
Or could they be worried that people will think you are talking about a man’s reproductive member, commonly called a “sausage”?
Sometimes I fear I will never understand the English mind.
I imagine they think the same of us.
I watch British tv on Netflix. They do have their own version of English.
Good news. Will this have consequences for the overzealous apparatchiks who arrested him in the first place? Like, getting sacked without a pension?
You realise how silly taters sounds?. Like a food for little kiddies. A sausage is a banger and its mash short for mashed potato.
Aye, the correct one.
No argument from me.
LOL, just kiddin’.
I’m slightly series. Britain’s version of English has certainly had more global impact than the United States’s version.
True.
Also cricket.
My husband works in IT for an investment firm, and last week the management asked him to find out how much bandwidth was being used by employees watching college basketball.
He found that many more employees were watching cricket online!
And they are called bangers because the filler used during and after WW2 caused them to go BANG! when they were cooked.
Taters was a commonly used contraction of potatoes ‘round heah during my youth.
My point, perhaps unsuccessfully made, was that slang is national as well as regional.
When I was still driving a truck I caught a lot of garbage from residents of our northern states because of my accent and slang terms.
I used to just tell them to come on down to Virginia and we would make fun of their accents and slang.
I actually enjoy hearing what people from other countries call things.
Doesn’t mean we can’t laugh at each others use of language and slang.
As long as it’s good natured fun and not with meanness or spiteful.
It took me a while to remember some of the slang but now it doesn’t faze me.
I do draw the line at Americans using British slang.
They don’t sound cool or hip.
They usually just sound stupid or pretentious.
Amen.
I feel the same with ‘Americanisms’. Great when you say them, when I and other Brits/Irish say them, we sound like idiots.
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