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30 Sep 2011, 9:22 am

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I find American accents very grating. I find American grammar even more grating. It drives me crazy to hear everybody talking to each other like they're Valley Girls, whether they're female or not. I ignore people or talk to them in a very formal manner when they talk to me like that. I also apologize to the Americans who are going to read this. I love you guys. It's the people offline that I'm talking about.

It's alright. I mentally slap myself in the face whenever I talk like a valley girl. I can't help it, because my sister talks that way all the time. :wall:

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30 Sep 2011, 10:24 am

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^ people in my locaity drop letters all over the show. H's are aso a popular one- "i 'ad sum wa'er in the 'ouse"

just like that L in locality you dropped?

also i cant believe i went to london and almost left without hearing someone say bloody hell.

I say bloody hell quite a lot. But not in a Giles way.

Plus London really is a separate country to the rest of the UK, it's not that English any more.

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30 Sep 2011, 10:31 am

Henbane wrote:

MXH wrote:

OneStepBeyond wrote:

^ people in my locaity drop letters all over the show. H's are aso a popular one- "i 'ad sum wa'er in the 'ouse"

just like that L in locality you dropped?

also i cant believe i went to london and almost left without hearing someone say bloody hell.

I say bloody hell quite a lot. But not in a Giles way.

Plus London really is a separate country to the rest of the UK, it's not that English any more.

maybe, but i expected them to hold stereotypes better. I did hear someone else say it at stansted airport

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30 Sep 2011, 1:03 pm

All americans have very very small British in them

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30 Sep 2011, 1:19 pm

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All americans have very very small British in them

They do? Is he called Wayne?

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30 Sep 2011, 1:26 pm

Not often if I'm honest, but I do love Detective Lassiter from Psych. :oops:

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01 Oct 2011, 2:32 pm

Henbane wrote:

MXH wrote:

OneStepBeyond wrote:

^ people in my locaity drop letters all over the show. H's are aso a popular one- "i 'ad sum wa'er in the 'ouse"

just like that L in locality you dropped?

also i cant believe i went to london and almost left without hearing someone say bloody hell.

I say bloody hell quite a lot. But not in a Giles way.

Plus London really is a separate country to the rest of the UK, it's not that English any more.

I say bloody hell a lot too. I quite like the London accent. My favourite though is received pronunciation.

I'm not that keen on the American accent, especially the loud, chatty type.

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01 Oct 2011, 2:48 pm

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They do? Is he called Wayne?

Is his surname Kerr?

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01 Oct 2011, 2:50 pm

smudge wrote:

My favourite though is received pronunciation.

The Peter Donaldson type?

Henbane wrote:

Plus London really is a separate country to the rest of the UK, it's not that English any more.

Quite a bit of England, especially the inner areas of towns and cities, aren't that English any more. Allahu akhbar!

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02 Oct 2011, 6:51 am

Tequila wrote:

smudge wrote:

My favourite though is received pronunciation.

The Peter Donaldson type?

Can you give me an example of his voice? I can only find bits of him on youtube, and it's terrible quality.

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02 Oct 2011, 7:01 am

Henbane wrote:

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All americans have very very small British in them

They do? Is he called Wayne?

Nope, Ronnie Corbett.

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02 Oct 2011, 9:28 am

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All americans have very very small British in them

I once saw the statistic that 95% of Americans born in America have English blood in them. Irish was at about 45%.

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02 Oct 2011, 9:51 am

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Can you give me an example of his voice? I can only find bits of him on youtube, and it's terrible quality.

Here's Donaldson presenting the Six O'Clock News on BBC Radio 4 on the Sunday 18 September 2011 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b014htrw).

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02 Oct 2011, 4:32 pm

I like american accents, dunno why. I guess I'm used to them because of the amount of american cartoons I watch!

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03 Oct 2011, 5:17 pm

I don't like most American accents and strong New "Yoik" accents are HORRIBLE, especially when it's got all that Yiddish stuff thrown in.

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