Re: An Open Letter to Americans

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[alihaggis78]

I think you have a point on the diversity of accents in the uk. We have millions. Every city and every town has its own distinctive accent and in many cases, words eg bap, balm, roll, bun ect.

My favourite moment in a conversation with an American, from a southern state, was when he told me to "Speak English" as he couldn't understand me. He didn't seem to get the joke when I said I was, but I'd try to translate it into American for him. lol

[PandyFackleresque]

Hahaha! Good for you! Some people have adopted the "Speak English!" motto as their personal credo for when they see someone who's not white or someone with an accent.

[Widgetas]

Well good day, good lady (\end toff greeting)

With regards to the humour side of things... I think you're right about the British humour at a higher level, but only in some cases.

From what I've seen the majority of American humour isn't less intelligent, but the audience is treated as though they won't understand unless the joke is explained. Sometimes more than once.

I've noticed this creeping into comedy in the UK, but generally those shows don't fare so well. Thankfully.

[PandyFackleresque]

I think you're closer to the truth. There are some good shows out there, though. Big Bang Theory and Always Sunny in Philadelphia, for example, I think have a very different sense of humour than typical American shows.

[RottingintheMidwest]

fuck England. in the ass. with no vaseline.

[PandyFackleresque]

Look, I'm rotting the in the Midwest, too. But there's no need to be hostile toward our scone-eating friends across the sea.

[jetcitynorthstar]

Did you just lump JFK's inspirational voice in with people like Joe Pesci? Not cool.

[justfillingtime]

Greetings from Derby (thats Darby), 40 mins north from me theres Sheffield with its Yorkshire accent and 40 mins south is Birmingham and its brummie accent (probably least liked of all uk accents, sorry birmingham!) . One thing I like about the UK is the variety of accents across this small land. Myself, I have a fairly generic east midlandsish accent but never developed a proper derby/notts twang, probably one of the less well known uk accents.

[MsReefmaster]

neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr­rrrrrrd!!!!!!!!!

[Eddtastic100]

@PandyFackleresque HEY DONT BE SO RUDE! We eat crumpets too.

[omsct]

@PandyFackleresque If you're into British humour I recommend Sean Lock and '15 Storeys High'. It's one of those things most people wouldn't really get, but I reckon you probably would.

By the way, I have a southern English accent. :P Some do sound kinda dopey (Bristol comes to mind). Have a good day.

[omsct]

@maureenOWW She was only quoting what Americans are kinda 'supposed' to think.

[maureenOWW]

'Bailed them out of wars' - which ones, in particular? If you mean WW2, the US was attacked by Japan and Germany, after 2 years of doing nothing. Tht's not 'bailing out', that's defending yourself after ignoring the problem for 2 years.

As for the revolution, it was a british civil war; a third of the population fought for the government (british government). They were not 'americans', they considered themselves englishmen. Look at the first US flag (grand union flag).

Rant-tastic!

[henkvanderlaak]

Anyway, you managed, you know, like you know, like you know, to get at least two dozen "likes" and "you knows" in.

That's what you notice immediately when English is your native tongue instead of Merrican.

[p0m91]

ahaha, look around you is mint!

to me, the only real differences in american accents that's at all notable is the deep south accent and the rest of america, and that southern accent does sound a bit simple =P