50 Americanisms That Brits Apparently Hate
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1) Some people should not insult or generalize the entire country after reading the opinions of a small number of people.
2)Some people don't like it when another culture seeps into their own (in this case its American English seeping into regular English).
OT:Some of the points in that article made sense, especially number 50.
2)Some people don't like it when another culture seeps into their own (in this case its American English seeping into regular English).
OT:Some of the points in that article made sense, especially number 50.
Howdy! i'm mighty sure yer ster-ee-oh-type is right on the mark pardner!Pietato said:
had to there, you stereotype english like that, i make out the entirety of the US is from Nevada...
you ever heard the east Midlands Accent? or the Yorkshire Accent? the only one that is anything like the one you typed about was 1700's London... it's 2010, and not everyone is Cockney...
It is now a law and shit: ALL railway stations must now be referred to as places of Locomotion Contraption Rendevous. That was too awesome.Mr Fatherland said:
Actually mathematics is a plural, just a plural of a concept with no all-encompassing singular word. You wouldn't talk about a mathematic because you would automatically be more specific, referring to Algebra, Geometry or the field of Imaginary numbers etc.Leo257 said:
I'm British and even I think this a bit silly.
I Don't blame the Americans for changing the English language I blame our chavs that bastardize the language even more.
I Don't blame the Americans for changing the English language I blame our chavs that bastardize the language even more.
get your grammar right before you troll...Kalezian said:
you do realise that the American Accent, and words used therein, is what was used before the Independance Declaration, after which UK English adapted, unlike US English, which actually makes the UK more flexible and accepting to new ideas/cultures... which is why we never had Apartheid...
To all you Americans taking this seriously:
British people love to complain about little things. It's a cultural thing. Noone's actually sitting there wringing their hands over someone thousands of miles away saying 'take-out', people here just like to have a bit of a moan and over-exaggerate. The 'stiff upper lip' only comes out when it's a serious problem.
British people love to complain about little things. It's a cultural thing. Noone's actually sitting there wringing their hands over someone thousands of miles away saying 'take-out', people here just like to have a bit of a moan and over-exaggerate. The 'stiff upper lip' only comes out when it's a serious problem.
true, that's why i get annoyed over overreacting to trolls, i just think 'these peole really need to nail some wood to their lip'secretsantaone said:
It's not just in language. I went to my end of year ball, which is called a prom for some weird reason. The whole thing was an overglorified disco with a cliche balloon drop at the end. My Canadian teacher even did mock Oscars, for crying out loud.
I didn't ask for a proper ball because it's my duty as a British citizen to do so, but because I wanted something more substantial to take the piss out of. Everything my school does is doomed to fail, so it would have been funnier to watch them try to do a ball, rather than a prom. The only thing you could have made fun of at that thing was how Americanised it was. Seeing them do a poorly done ball would have been a treat to behold, especially with the aforementioned Canadian at the helm.
And before any of you have a go at me for not enjoying the "prom", it's because it was a bit like Duke Nukem Forever; loads of wait and hype for something you knew was going to suck badly, because so many people worked on it for a bit, before giving up and handing it over to the next guy. No really, it got so bad, they were considering cancelling the whole thing because no one wanted to be in charge of it.
On topic, some of those are legit, but others are just anal. Train station, really? I honestly can't think of an alternative to that, besides railway station, which is outdated by about fifty years, so it doesn't count.
I didn't ask for a proper ball because it's my duty as a British citizen to do so, but because I wanted something more substantial to take the piss out of. Everything my school does is doomed to fail, so it would have been funnier to watch them try to do a ball, rather than a prom. The only thing you could have made fun of at that thing was how Americanised it was. Seeing them do a poorly done ball would have been a treat to behold, especially with the aforementioned Canadian at the helm.
And before any of you have a go at me for not enjoying the "prom", it's because it was a bit like Duke Nukem Forever; loads of wait and hype for something you knew was going to suck badly, because so many people worked on it for a bit, before giving up and handing it over to the next guy. No really, it got so bad, they were considering cancelling the whole thing because no one wanted to be in charge of it.
On topic, some of those are legit, but others are just anal. Train station, really? I honestly can't think of an alternative to that, besides railway station, which is outdated by about fifty years, so it doesn't count.
I think a huge number of these are things Brits think Americans say, but actually are not used that often. A lot of them also seem to be business expressions, and sorry England but, at least for now, we've kind of got you one-upped on that front. Others are just grammar mistakes that Americans also resent.
Number 27, by the way, "oftentimes"? Banquo used that in MacBeth.
Also, what the hell is with British people randomly deciding not to pronounce entire clusters of letters in a word, like in "worcestershire"?
Also, maths? Sorry, but "math" is not a contraction for "mathematics", just an abbreviation.
Number 27, by the way, "oftentimes"? Banquo used that in MacBeth.
Also, what the hell is with British people randomly deciding not to pronounce entire clusters of letters in a word, like in "worcestershire"?
Also, maths? Sorry, but "math" is not a contraction for "mathematics", just an abbreviation.
Most of these are really petty and not important, and really seem like just whining. Though to be fair, being Canadian I hate the whole "Zee" instead of "Zed" thing, and anyone who says "I could care less" should, to quote Garfield, "be drug out into the street and shot". I hate it even more when they throw it in games. Capcom and XSeed are particularity guilty of this. Capcom I'll let it slide because this IS the same company that made Mega Man Battle Network 5, which has the absolute WORST translation of any game ever, but XSeed? Really?
...Really? I...JUST covered that in my post. The vowel is there to make it easier on your mouth. It would of course be stupid to spell something over the phone with just the 'b' sound, so they make it 'bee'. They just add a vowel so you can pronounce it. Keeping this consistency with 'bee', 'ell', 'arr', 'kay' (the 'ay' sound is a singular sound, with Y often being considered a vowel since your mouth does not form any full stops for it. Plus, "A" makes the -ay sound) makes it easier to learn. Then, they ruin that whole system with 'zed'. (And double-U)Loop Stricken said:
Why must the British hate us American's, of course we reveloutionized from your country, killed a whole bunch of your soldiers, boycotted, sank your ships, humiliated you and made our own civilization while you were busy taxing the hell out of your people. But thats all in the past, right, RIGHT?
Some I agree with (See 50.), Some I feel neutral about (35), and others are 'What the hell? But that is how we are taught that in school! You must be wrong!' (46). Then I am reminded which country actually created the language.