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  • #7,561
  • Aug 2, 2017 2:06am Aug 2, 2017 2:06am
Quoting jen101
{quote} Because they make them do cursive at age 5 when most of them can't even write legibly and it takes them forever to do. A pain when you have to read their spellings.
Ahh! So from a mothers point of view when trying to correct homework, right?
  • #7,562
  • Aug 2, 2017 2:15am Aug 2, 2017 2:15am
Quoting jen101
{quote} It's a laugh. I thought Americans just couldn't get their words out till you told me of the different spelling!
Well proper English belongs to the Brits! It is after all where it's origins come from when America was born, so it's hard to argue anything contrary to this fact. Make fun of us as you will, we should strike English from our language classification and just call it American in order to not offend the limey's as they would call us the "yanks"!
  • #7,563
  • Aug 2, 2017 2:20am Aug 2, 2017 2:20am
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  • #7,564
  • Aug 2, 2017 3:56am Aug 2, 2017 3:56am
Quoting DrManhatten
{quote} Yes! Please elaborate!
The Brits spell it "Aluminium" and pronounce it accordingly. I always wondered why Americans say 'aloominum'.
Carbon-Dioxide: the gas of life! https://youtu.be/ttJBdr6eBuo
  • #7,565
  • Aug 2, 2017 4:08am Aug 2, 2017 4:08am
Quoting jen101
{quote} My kids are forced to do cursive writing at school, which I find rather irritating.
....well, it is better than cursive speech
Carbon-Dioxide: the gas of life! https://youtu.be/ttJBdr6eBuo
  • #7,566
  • Aug 2, 2017 4:09am Aug 2, 2017 4:09am
Quoting Stu Effex
{quote} "on the wireless" ah that took me back for a moment, it's not too often you hear that expression any more. It instantly gave me this memory https://youtu.be/gLtXhXeE5Xo
A fond old woman I knew used to refer to "the wireless". Sadly she is no longer with us.

Incidentally I believe the young boy singing there is Bob Monkhouse, could be wrong.
Carbon-Dioxide: the gas of life! https://youtu.be/ttJBdr6eBuo
  • #7,567
  • Aug 2, 2017 4:33am Aug 2, 2017 4:33am
Quoting verv
{quote} It's a characteristic for colonial countries to attempt to expunge all aspects of the coloniser (British in the cases I'm aware of) only to find out decades later that the British were successful because their ways and methods of organising government and the economy worked. ....
...and if your name is Mugabe you don't give a shit anyway.
Carbon-Dioxide: the gas of life! https://youtu.be/ttJBdr6eBuo
  • #7,568
  • Aug 2, 2017 5:26am Aug 2, 2017 5:26am
Quoting Exodus
{quote} The Brits spell it "Aluminium" and pronounce it accordingly. I always wondered why Americans say 'aloominum'.

Oh I see. I have no idea why we pronounce it differently
  • #7,569
  • Aug 2, 2017 5:53am Aug 2, 2017 5:53am
Quoting DrManhatten
{quote} Oh I see. I have no idea why we pronounce it differently
Well, apparently you spell it differently ... so a different pronounciation is to be expected.
Carbon-Dioxide: the gas of life! https://youtu.be/ttJBdr6eBuo
  • #7,570
  • Edited 6:51am Aug 2, 2017 6:21am | Edited 6:51am
More on Pizzagate and guess whos behind it all - Trump knows.
Same ppl behind the transgender crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6h2iT3gmqA
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence
  • #7,571
  • Aug 2, 2017 6:44am Aug 2, 2017 6:44am
Quoting jen101
{quote} No, I think culturally we are more European. I find Americans rather fake, forever telling me to have a nice day when I am thinking sod off. I find the blind persistence to talk to me irritatating. So I am aloof and disinterested - hint, I don't want to talk to you, so go away. The French on the other hand are just miserable and rude, which is fine because then we are both clear where we stand. Germans are simply weird, which is fine too because I ignore them. Also I think Europeans see Brits as psychos, which is rather a nice reputation...
I consider that American good manners, I'm not a fan of the rudeness that you can often encounter from Europeans. Whilst OTT politeness risks coming across as being insincere I'd much rather it like that than have to deal with someone who has a baguette lodged firmly up their arse .

Those are more superficial characteristics, I think in cores attitudes towards government (for example) we Brits are more suspicious of power like the Americans, unlike the Europeans.

Others may not feel that way.
  • #7,572
  • Aug 2, 2017 7:06am Aug 2, 2017 7:06am
Quoting Exodus
{quote} A fond old woman I knew used to refer to "the wireless". Sadly she is no longer with us. Incidentally I believe the young boy singing there is Bob Monkhouse, could be wrong.
Think you could be right Ex certainly looks like him.
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  • #7,573
  • Aug 2, 2017 7:53am Aug 2, 2017 7:53am
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  • #7,574
  • Aug 2, 2017 7:59am Aug 2, 2017 7:59am
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Mark ... Everything you have been told is a LIE
  • #7,575
  • Aug 2, 2017 8:06am Aug 2, 2017 8:06am
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  • #7,576
  • Aug 2, 2017 8:35am Aug 2, 2017 8:35am
Quoting DrManhatten
{quote} Ahh! So from a mothers point of view when trying to correct homework, right?
They have a list of spellings to learn every week. For the younger one, the best way to learn is to keep writing them out. Writing cursive is very slow and she (perhaps deliberately) makes a mess. It gets in the way of actually learning the spellings, so I have banned it at home. For the record, both of them have had 100% on every spelling test all of the last school year! For the older one, many of the words she gets would put many on here to shame. Even the younger one, at age 6, knows the difference between there, their and they're, which is really cringeworthy when I see people get it wrong, memorably a certain pompous, sanctimonious, plagiarising character who frequents these forums.
  • #7,577
  • Aug 2, 2017 8:46am Aug 2, 2017 8:46am
https://youtu.be/h6MZ5-KCT3g
Once You See, You Can't Unsee But You Will Get The Odd Poke In The Eye
  • #7,578
  • Aug 2, 2017 8:51am Aug 2, 2017 8:51am
Quoting DrManhatten
{quote} Well proper English belongs to the Brits! It is after all where it's origins come from when America was born, so it's hard to argue anything contrary to this fact. Make fun of us as you will, we should strike English from our language classification and just call it American in order to not offend the limey's as they would call us the "yanks"!
I'm not offended at the differences, not in the slightest. What does offend me is when Americans criticise us for not speaking / writing proper English. In our culture we practise rudeness; in yours it is accidental. Put downs come easily to us.
  • #7,579
  • Aug 2, 2017 9:31am Aug 2, 2017 9:31am
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  • #7,580
  • Aug 2, 2017 9:32am Aug 2, 2017 9:32am
Quoting jen101
{quote} I'm not offended at the differences, not in the slightest. What does offend me is when Americans criticise us for not speaking / writing proper English. In our culture we practise rudeness; in yours it is accidental. Put downs come easily to us.
I don't think we say hello and such like enough these days. When I go walking it's inevitable you meet head on with people but a lot of people tend to put their head down like they can't face just to be polite and say hello. Quite sad really.
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