To the Citizens of the United States of America

[BeardofPants]

Originally Posted by Linaewen

We just sound like bogans is all.

You said it!!

[BeardofPants]

Originally Posted by Linaewen

(Though admittedly, you may need subtitles for Kiwi accents, as similar as they are to ours. Fush n chups )

Hah, ours is closer to the english language than yours, of course you lot need a feckin' translator! Feeesh eeeen cheeeeeps.

[Nurvingiel]

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Hey - I didn't make any political comment - I just stated why America has the extreme differences in accents. It was more a history lesson than a political statement.

Lin has actually made comments about one section of Australia versus another.

Oh never mind then!

Laugh at the joke people, laugh! Laaaaugh!!!

[Linaewen]

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Lin has actually made comments about one section of Australia versus another.

Have I?

Is your accent really closer to theirs than ours BoP? But ...you just pronounce some words illogically. We do NOT need a translator. It is not our fault, it's everyone else's!

[jerseydevil]

Originally Posted by Linaewen

Have I?

Yes - when I mentioned about my cousins sounding like they say "Ma bomb" - instead of mobile and then you said it on mic and said that it had to do with them being from the north.

[Linaewen]

Oh yeah, they're a bit funny up north in Queensland...and they're a bit funny south in Tassie as well, and west in WA too. Heck, they're odd anywhere but here.

[Jonathan]

If Lin thinks her Australian cousins are funny, imagine how odd her American cousins must sound to her

[Durin1]

You think American regional accents are peculiar (to non-Americans)? Have you heard "Geordie", spoken by people of the North-East of England, particularly Newcastle. Or what about "Brummie" (close to my heart) for people from the West Midlands and Birmingham? Or the South-West (Somerset) accents. All very peculiar in their own ways.

As to the "joke" side of things: it is just meant to be funny and no harm or insult is intended. Indeed, i'm sure that there are many British peculiarities that could be made fun of.

[The Gaffer]

Yes, we should write phonetically in our native accents.

Then we'd huv a properr Babel righ' heere in oor ain we core-nur ay the ne'.

Durin - have you seen the Scottish Parliament web site? It's got a version in Scots, which is a pile o pish if you ask me. Naeb'dy speaks li'tha' where ah come fae.

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

Originally Posted by Durin1

You think American regional accents are peculiar (to non-Americans)? Have you heard "Geordie", spoken by people of the North-East of England, particularly Newcastle. Or what about "Brummie" (close to my heart) for people from the West Midlands and Birmingham? Or the South-West (Somerset) accents. All very peculiar in their own ways.

As to the "joke" side of things: it is just meant to be funny and no harm or insult is intended. Indeed, i'm sure that there are many British peculiarities that could be made fun of.

South west accent is not peculiar!!

how dare you sully my good cyder drinking reputation
ooh arrh and the such like
oi got a brand new combine harvester, and i'll give you ther key

[Fenir_LacDanan]

As if I could possibly leave this alone.....


That joke was bloody hilarious. You all remember, the joke that started this thread in the first place. Anyway...

Righto, deep breath, and:

You can't call it "british" English, as a language, its just English. A quarter of the world speaks English. Not American, Canadian, Australian or Irish. Its English kids, lets not be silly.

Australia was initially founded as a British colony, but so was America. Only about half of Australians have desent of Anglo natures. Many are Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Italian, Greek, Vietnamese...ect. This doesn't change the fact that A bloke in Perth will have exactly the same accent as a bloke from Melbourne. I have always found it quite amusing the differing accents and massed divisions in the US, making one wonder how "united" they are...
Stop that! Bad Fenir! Bad!

Oh, and its good to see that our American "friends" (chortle), have not taken offence to the harmless joke that began this thread. (you can read that as serious or sarcasm, either works, baby! )

Shall we?

[Durin1]

Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

South west accent is not peculiar!!

how dare you sully my good cyder drinking reputation
ooh arrh and the such like
oi got a brand new combine harvester, and i'll give you ther key

I won't even go there with my "dopey" Brummie accent!! (not that I think it's dopey!

And hey, I said it was peculiar (to non-Brits), not that they are horrible. I've been down to Bristol loads of times (I have family and friends there) and find it quite nice.

[Durin1]

Originally Posted by Fenir_LacDanan

As if I could possibly leave this alone.....
That joke was bloody hilarious. You all remember, the joke that started this thread in the first place. Anyway...

We have seemed to get a bit side-tracked.

BTW, British English is the correct English

Maybe Americans should adopt the British "reserve"? All that gung-ho mentality;maybe then they would think before they did stuff

Although I'd have to disagree with adopting the British Anthem. It's probably the most boring, ridilculous and out of touch anthem in the world, with its old, imperilaist connotations. Why should "God save the Queen" surely it should mean "God save the people of Great Britain?

[Linaewen]

Originally Posted by Jonathan

If Lin thinks her Australian cousins are funny, imagine how odd her American cousins must sound to her

I was just kidding. The differences between accents are, I think, mostly urban versus country. And they're not that noticeable either. And we're used to that drawl of the Americans by now.

Sun-star, um, I can't find the definition for "bogan" anywhere. Jon, is it in that dictionary I gave you? I would say it's like an uncouth person, but that's not quite right either.

[sun-star]

Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

South west accent is not peculiar!!

how dare you sully my good cyder drinking reputation
ooh arrh and the such like
oi got a brand new combine harvester, and i'll give you ther key

Well, I found out yesterday that if it hadn't been for the Norman Conquest the south-west would have been the capital of England, and the south-west dialect would have become the 'correct' form of Standard English. Your accent would be the one everyone thinks is posh instead of the BBC one...

So feel proud of the south-west

[Nurvingiel]

Originally Posted by The Gaffer

Yes, we should write phonetically in our native accents.

Then we'd huv a properr Babel righ' heere in oor ain we core-nur ay the ne'.

Durin - have you seen the Scottish Parliament web site? It's got a version in Scots, which is a pile o pish if you ask me. Naeb'dy speaks li'tha' where ah come fae.

Scots is its own language, which has its origin in Middle-english. Robert Burns (one of my favourite poets) writes in Scots. (O wad some pow'r, the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us...)

Oh yeah... the joke... it's really funny!

Making fun of American beer is one of the favourite past-times of Canadians. We feel badly for our neighbours, that they have to drink such swill. That's why I'm always giving JD a nice Granville Island Lager.

[Insidious Rex]

well not like canadian beer is vastly better though. It follows the same idea of the piss swill like budweiser and coors and what not. the most popular brands in canada are Molsen and Moosehead and Labbatts. Now maybe they taste different over there but to me they taste like very weak lagars just like the budweisers and millers and bushes and such. That being said BOTH countries have excellent microbrew traditions and you can get an excellent pint of beer on either side of the border if you know where to look. But the beer companies on either side of the border that do most of the business are sad excuses for beer.

Canadian Beer Index

[inked]

Well, chappies and chappettes, if you really want properly spoken King's English, as it was before the current British pronunciations, come to Charleston, SC, and various regions of Virginia where it is still spoken. And I might add, the verb to eat is still properly declined as eat, ate, et.

Of course this all goes to British error, doesn't it? Letting on that people who all spelt the same word actually said it in the same manner! Coo!...

[Fenir_LacDanan]

Originally Posted by Insidious Rex

well not like canadian beer is vastly better though. It follows the same idea of the piss swill like budweiser and coors and what not. the most popular brands in canada are Molsen and Moosehead and Labbatts. Now maybe they taste different over there but to me they taste like very weak lagars just like the budweisers and millers and bushes and such. That being said BOTH countries have excellent microbrew traditions and you can get an excellent pint of beer on either side of the border if you know where to look. But the beer companies on either side of the border that do most of the business are sad excuses for beer.

Canadian Beer Index

I've been to America, and, quite frankly, my hair was not blown back by the place or the beer there. Millers and Bud are useless. ESPECIALLY BUD. I have had Molsen, and was happy with it, but I'm much more impressed with Canadian whiskey. Its tops, and given that I come from one of the places that invented whiskey, I was really impressed by it. Those blokes north of the border can sure distill a good drop.

Yank beer, however, is not nearly up to scratch. Kids. For a start, the millage (oh, thats right, your all still imperial; the ounces), is much less than standard beers, and far and away the alcohol content is far less than other places. How can one argue that their beer is worth considering, when their actual amount and grog levels are not even a flash in the pan? One tends to wonder....

European beer is easily better than our "counterparts" (snigger) across the pond. German and Dutch Beer is exceptional.
Australian beer, sweet sweet beer, has a high Alcohol level, and a high milage level. Its quite good, and not for the half arsed. It's far above the New world brews.

But of course, this whole thread is about the superiority of Eurpoe over the US, and all....

[Sister Golden Hair]

But of course, this whole thread is about the superiority of Eurpoe over the US, and all....

No it isn't. It is about an amusing article meant in jest, about England taking back US independence.

Fenir, I will trust your knowledge on beer and alcohol 100%. Afterall, you are an authority, you're Irish.