50 Americanisms That Brits Apparently Hate
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You people are impossible so I'm gonna leave it here, you accused me of making an unfounded assertion, and then responded with unfounded assertions of your own, most of which didn't make sense. So I'll leave the discussion now as it's just going round in a circle. And just to clarify: I am not a Nationalist, I simply have a patriotic view of the English language. If I were a Nationalist, I would essentially be a British Nazi, which I am not.
I agree with Deplane, My Bad, and I could care less. That last one is a peeve of mine as well.
This is the greatest travesty of the English language in this entire ridiculous thread. Wouldn't've. Really?..... Really?.... No. I will, under no circumstances, accept an english word with 2 apostrophes. Ever .... arggghghghgghghgh *headexplodes*strobe said:
I'm going to jump into this thread late and lighten it up some.
When I read this article, I laughed and then I got my mom to read some of the stuff on the computer. She got into an amusing fit over the person who said American's "bangs" should be called your "fringe." She said she had bangs and that's how it was going to stay.
Yes, it was very amusing.
When I read this article, I laughed and then I got my mom to read some of the stuff on the computer. She got into an amusing fit over the person who said American's "bangs" should be called your "fringe." She said she had bangs and that's how it was going to stay.
Yes, it was very amusing.
Look, a lot of things piss me off, too. "Winningest." "I could care less." "Irregardless." "Mischievious." Words or expressions that are off, don't make sense, don't exist, or are just flat-out stupid. So I can relate to others who get irked. I cannot, however, sympathize with those who think, from some profound sense of cultural and intellectual loftiness, that they are protecting the intellect of the human race from degeneration. Or those who get hung up on split infinitives and other obsolete rules. This type of thing has been going on for as long as language has existed, and we've done just fine. As for the British, whom I respect (apart from their crappy socialist politics), they should focus on their own stupid uses of language. It irritates me no end when the British use the word "what" to mean "that" or "who." Stop it!
Heh you know as an Englishman myself I find that I agree with almost everything on that list(except train station, everyone uses the term train station)... I shall write a stiff letter to the American Embassy! Huzzah! Where's my reading monocle? And my lucky top hat?
Seriously guys, the English love to piss and moan about things, it's practically the national pastime! I don't know what we'd do if the weather wasn't always so shitty.
Though I have far better reasons for not moving to America rather than just not liking the language.
And Americans don't use fortnight? Apparently so... And they chose bi-weekly instead? Booooorrrring XD
EDIT: Hooooooooooooly christ guys, just gone back through the thread and my. God. It was a light hearted Brits being moany bastards cuz that's how we roll article. That's what we do. ***** and moan. About fucking everything and nothing. we don't mean anything (most of the time.)
All the Americans have grabbed entirely the wrong end of the stick cuz y'know srs bsns, the American Revolutionary War comes into it cuz some cunting asshole can't leave unrelated shit alone and now we're trying to defend ourselves over fucking nothing. Since we both think we're in the right it's like a vicious circle in argument form.
So what i'm trying to say is...
God! If only i'd got here sooner... *walks away disapprovingly*
Seriously guys, the English love to piss and moan about things, it's practically the national pastime! I don't know what we'd do if the weather wasn't always so shitty.
Though I have far better reasons for not moving to America rather than just not liking the language.
And Americans don't use fortnight? Apparently so... And they chose bi-weekly instead? Booooorrrring XD
EDIT: Hooooooooooooly christ guys, just gone back through the thread and my. God. It was a light hearted Brits being moany bastards cuz that's how we roll article. That's what we do. ***** and moan. About fucking everything and nothing. we don't mean anything (most of the time.)
All the Americans have grabbed entirely the wrong end of the stick cuz y'know srs bsns, the American Revolutionary War comes into it cuz some cunting asshole can't leave unrelated shit alone and now we're trying to defend ourselves over fucking nothing. Since we both think we're in the right it's like a vicious circle in argument form.
So what i'm trying to say is...
CALM THE FUCK DOWN MOTHERFUCKERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
God! If only i'd got here sooner... *walks away disapprovingly*
I think it's stupid how people are complaining about how we like to do things. It's just how we are, why can't some people just accept that? (Bar maybe some things that may dramatically affect other countries, like war and such.)
And frankly I've never heard of half these terms. "Deliverable"? "Deplane"?
Please, type me out a sentence that an English person would say where that is the case, I am begging you!mr. bungle said:
On topic. It's just American's putting there culture into language, it will obviously be different than how English English evolves. If language didn't evolve we would all still be grunting at each other.
