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[OT] British + American accents
Posted on: 14.06.2011 by Maisie Marras

suck it brits

http://www.nicholasjohnpatrick.com/p...ritish-accents

Americans in 1776 did have British accents in that American accents and British accents hadn
Delila Vandommelen
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos

Notice how the Union Jack is the one getting plugged.


Gotta narrow down a few types of accents and really practice them, I'm inbetween chairs but loyal to the extra Us in colour and such :P

The americans at work believe I sound english/british.
The english at work believe I sound american.
The east europeans... they can't tell
Met a bloke in a bar, must've been scottish or something - he thought I sounded canadian. Next time that happens I'll reply with "what are you talking aboot?"

Oh and yeah the kiwi accent is funny (that news report confirms what I saw on "Flight of the Conchords" and "Eagle vs. Shark"). I'd love to crack an aussie vs kiwi joke on that but I'm not enough in the know for it to be effective. :P
Don't really wanna feel the wrath of our beloved kiwi mod either

You may resume the thread.
Tatum Ansaldo
15.06.2011
Fair fa
Shay Wyche
15.06.2011		The Scottish accent can be the most aggressive form of the English language. Even the words 'I love you' sounds like a threat.

Oh, and if we are talking food, Haggis is the most wonderful tasting animal going. *whistles
Nedra Fresneda
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by fullenglishpint
20% flavour, 80% filler. Beats Guetta.
Blindfolded.
Tatum Ansaldo
15.06.2011		20% flavour, 80% filler. Beats Guetta.
Latoria Kavulich
15.06.2011		floor scrapings and stale bread ... delish
Tatum Ansaldo
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by Jester.NZ
sawdust stuffed into ass skin
again, from wikipedia. This is what makes up most of the rest...

Originally Posted by wikipedia
Butcher's rusk

To the British butcher rusk is a dry biscuit broken into particles, sorted by particle size and sold to butchers and others for use as a food additive in sausage manufacture.Though originally made from stale bread, now called "Bread-rusk", a yeast-free variety called simply "Rusk" is now more commonly used.

Various rusk particle sizes are used in the food industry, where uses include:

A carrier for flavours, colours and seasonings
A binding agent in hamburgers, sausages, stuffings, pies, and other compound meat products.
As an ingredient for dried stuffing mixes.
Chasidy Heckenbach
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by fullenglishpint
You want chips with that?
actually yep... esp if there's some black pudding included

"sawdust stuffed into ass skin" with some "congealed dry blood"... and they say the english don't have good taste in food... meh....
Tatum Ansaldo
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by padi_04
I'll have some to go please.
You want chips with that?
Latoria Kavulich
15.06.2011		sawdust stuffed into ass skin
Nedra Fresneda
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by zestoi
"25% connective tissue"... yummy
I'll have some to go please.
Chasidy Heckenbach
15.06.2011		"25% connective tissue"... yummy
Tatum Ansaldo
15.06.2011		In the UK...

Originally Posted by wikipedia
The minimum meat content to be labelled Pork Sausages is 42% (30% for other types of meat sausages), although to be classed as meat, the Pork can contain 30% fat and 25% connective tissue. Often the cheapest supermarket pork sausages do not have the necessary meat content to be described as Pork Sausages and are simply labelled 'Sausages'. These typically contain MRM (Mechanically Reclaimed Meat) which under EU law can no longer be described as meat.
Chasidy Heckenbach
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by Jester.NZ
in new zealand sausages have to be at least 35% meat or they cant be called sausages.
similar kind of rule i believe, though who knows what constitutes 'meat' or not... plus i know of one supermarket that just started labelling their cheapo sausages as 'bangers' instead to get round it makes you wonder what's in them tho i guess...
Latoria Kavulich
15.06.2011		in new zealand sausages have to be at least 35% meat or they cant be called sausages.
Chasidy Heckenbach
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by Jester.NZ
I thought it was "Jello"
plus i thought the bloody EU had passed directives on what can or cannot be called stuff like jam or sausages these days... stupid... it is what it is
Nedra Fresneda
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by fullenglishpint
To be fair I find her argentinian accent when speaking spanish quite amusing as well

It's all 'estoy Jegando' and 'me Jamo'.
Hahaha, touch
Tatum Ansaldo
15.06.2011		To be fair I find her argentinian accent when speaking spanish quite amusing as well

It's all 'estoy Jegando' and 'me Jamo'.
Nedra Fresneda
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by fullenglishpint
I was talking to an argentinian friend of mine the other day and she said that to her, american english seemed like a plain accent while the standard 'british' accent (which I took to mean like mine, ie from the south east) is more 'flowery'
The thing is in decent schools you get taught proper English with something in between a British and neutral pronunciation, "American" (btw, hate calling people from the US that way) is the language "from the movies and TV" and it slowly takes over in your head.

Trying to put it in a very basic way, British is the textbook English, American is every day English and you somehow believe of the first as a "funny accent".

She might believe it's flowery because she considers redundant some "exaggerations" that set it apart from "regular" English, kinda when you listen to french and some people consider it classy or delicate.

Personally, I admire Scottish cursing poetry and the general "ring" of the different variations spoken in the UK.

Internet does the rest with grammar .
Latoria Kavulich
15.06.2011		I thought it was "Jello"
Tatum Ansaldo
15.06.2011		Good point, well made Tommy.
Kandy Ahdoot
15.06.2011		Americans take note

jelly:


Jam:


nayit ruiz jaramillo
15.06.2011		Seems like every fucking English speaking nation is obsessed with the Queen and the Queens English apart from the actual English.

FFS have you heard how that stupid bitch speaks... no-one speaks like her apart from people in the aristocracy...and they are all mad inbreds and riddled with syphilis.

Get a fucking grip. As for that woman in Lethals video, christ shes an idiot.
Chasidy Heckenbach
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by lethal_pizzle
Here you go chaps - how to speak with a 'British dialect'.

PS never heard anyone speak like this ever
is she for real!?!?!? just sounds like she's just taking the piss talking in a caricature like english accent...

ofc all english people sound like that or cockney
Latoria Kavulich
15.06.2011		http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ePwKYJcEOo
Chasidy Heckenbach
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by fullenglishpint
Examples?
i often find myself explaining to my gf that various letters are 'silent' like 'b' in 'dumb' (not that i call her dumb ofc ) or that some combinations of letters sound different based on their context. like why 'tio' sounds like 'sh' in nation or that 'ee' and 'ea' can sound the same as can 'ir' and 'er and 'ur' so why do we have them all? 'th' can be hard or soft. 'zion' in television is an odd one... there's loads really that you only really believe about when someone who isnt a native english speaker asks you "why" something is written or sounds a certain way...

What I hate is what someone mentioned earlier, herb being pronounced 'urb'. When people are talking about seasoning a burger it sounds like they're making hash brownies.

'Now, o' course, de most important part. De uuuuuuuuurb.'
ah yep - that was me there is a really good reason though why it should be pronounced 'herb' and not 'erb'.... because it's got a f*cking 'H' at the start (as some comedian once said... tho it's not quite so funny once u realise how many stupid silent letter are in other words in english i guess)
Marshall Aby
15.06.2011		http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGTPW...eature=related

Here you go chaps - how to speak with a 'British dialect'.

PS never heard anyone speak like this ever
Latoria Kavulich
15.06.2011		or that clairol herbal essences ad pretty much sums it up "Love the Rrrballll"
Tatum Ansaldo
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by zestoi
lots of uk spellings don't make much sense and are due to historical/roots reasons i guess...
Examples?

What I hate is what someone mentioned earlier, herb being pronounced 'urb'. When people are talking about seasoning a burger it sounds like they're making hash brownies.

'Now, o' course, de most important part. De uuuuuuuuurb.'
Chasidy Heckenbach
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
Oh and I've also noticed that Ean sounds like he is saying "sodder" instead of solder..?
yep seems to be an american thing tho - as i've heard a few other people say it the same way on youtube.

Originally Posted by Jester.NZ
and a shortage of i's e.g "aluminum"
very true and u's like in coloUr but personally i believe spelling it as "color" is just more sensible. lots of uk spellings don't make much sense and are due to historical/roots reasons i guess...
Latoria Kavulich
15.06.2011		and a shortage of i's e.g "aluminum"
Latoria Kavulich
15.06.2011		no h's or l's in americanese
nayit ruiz jaramillo
15.06.2011		I adore the sound of Photojojos voice... He's a Texan but it's not a Southern drawl it's really smooth and soothing...
Bit like Irish accents, can be harsh or smooth.

Accents, how did we get onto that???

Oh and I've also noticed that Ean sounds like he is saying "sodder" instead of solder..?
Chasidy Heckenbach
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by fullenglishpint
I was talking to an argentinian friend of mine the other day and she said that to her, american english seemed like a plain accent while the standard 'british' accent (which I took to mean like mine, ie from the south east) is more 'flowery'
flower? not heard that one before i guess it's what people get used to. i've lived all over so not sure what my own accent is, tho it's southern rather than northern. a mate of mine came over recently from ohio and he has a really strong accent - and speaks so bloody slowly. chatted to other people from the usa who seemed to have much much less of an accent tho.

ofc everyone has an accent... but some seem more obvious than others.
Tatum Ansaldo
15.06.2011		I was talking to an argentinian friend of mine the other day and she said that to her, american english seemed like a plain accent while the standard 'british' accent (which I took to mean like mine, ie from the south east) is more 'flowery'
Chasidy Heckenbach
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
Not CHiPS:
though i did used to rather like that tv programme (show) when a kid

american-english seems like a simplified form of english a lot of the time - and thats no real bad thing - there's loads of oddities in english that makes it tricky for a foreigner to learn...

i do find two things odd tho (and please no flaming...) the american pronunciation of the word "herb" without saying the "h"? what's that about...

also "solder".... sounds oddly more like "sarder" when i've heard people like ean golden saying it on vids... sounds rather comical to me...

overall, though i'd hate to admit it, but i believe american-english is generally more sane than english-english... but "pants" is a comedy word - so i always wear "trousers"
nayit ruiz jaramillo
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by deevey

Now ... You want fries with that
No thanks... id like CHIPS please... and by chips i dont mean crisps

Chips:


Crisps:


Not CHiPS:



Tatum Ansaldo
15.06.2011		I speak english too. In my language, 'balm' is not the same as 'bomb', 'Kahn' is not the same as 'con', and 'lager' is not the same as 'logger'.
Rolanda Clodfelder
15.06.2011		Accents aside ...

http://howinuk.co.uk/topicform.php?id=chipsvschips
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...6005813AAPmjlp

Americans speak American ... let them have it

Now ... You want fries with that
Edris Acevedo
15.06.2011
Originally Posted by karlos santos
hahahaha written by an american and you believe it.........


For a start, there is no such thing as a "british accent" because britain specifically mean great britain which is england, scotland and wales. If you mean the uk that includes northern ireland so you see it plain as day that the dickwad from baltimore doesnt even get the first facts correct.


Also, bbc english..? Yeah we all know about it but it accounts for a tiny percentage of the population... Bit like saying that all americans sound like joey from friends "ey ow you doin'?"... And thats just stupid


whatever mumbo-jumbo you wanna come out with, you will always and forever be speaking english...

Im english, i speak english.
You are american, you speak english.


I woke up at 6am today and thought fuck it ill get up and do some work and this has brightened my morning up.

Thanks theory old chap... Tally hoe :d


tell him karlos!

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