Finally! I'm so happy!

[starrkers]

I got noticed by Anonymous. My new story so far has garnered two anonymous email responses.
One was glowing praise.
The other I shall cherish, just wish I could reply.

when are you idiot brit's going to get with the +90% of the world on use and spelling of some things, the world uses ass not that stupid arse.

I'm not British.

 

[cloudy]

Gotta love the arrogance implicit in Anonymous' comment (they make all Americans look like arrogant, ignorant assholes when they say shit like that).

 

[Lee Chambers]

That's amazing! This man has been from one side of the world to each other and has found that all people of all races and cultures use the word "ass" to describe the hindquarters! Even in languages that aren't Latin-based! ASTOUNDING!

I offer you this.

http://geoffhutchison.net/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=32&g2_serialNumber=2

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

I love using the word "arse" in my stories and in the real world. I use it in conversations between some of my characters, but not often enough. I like it because to me it has more flair than ass. Plus for just a brief moment in time I can have a British accent.

 

[Frank Noir]

I got noticed by Anonymous. My new story so far has garnered two anonymous email responses.
One was glowing praise.
The other I shall cherish, just wish I could reply.


I'm not British.

Oh - that spelling really can ruin a story for you, can't it?

Good thing you didn't write "colour" or his head would have exploded! (In a bad way - I mean, not that head...)

 

[rachlou]

I got noticed by Anonymous. My new story so far has garnered two anonymous email responses.
One was glowing praise.
The other I shall cherish, just wish I could reply.


I'm not British.

Well I am, and comments like that from Anon really piss me off! Anon really should go stick his comments up his arse

 

[Vermilion]

Well I am, and comments like that from Anon really piss me off! Anon really should go stick his comments up his arse

Here Here!
I am in FAVOUR of all you say Rachy!


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[Lee Chambers]

All you Brits need to go back to school and learn how to read, write and speak English all proper like! And I don't wanna hear any of that crap about how "We were speaking English before Americans were!" because that's just a bunch of socialist propaganda!

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Congratulations, Starrkers.

We knew you were too good to remain an anon virgin forever.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[oggbashan]

All you Brits need to go back to school and learn how to read, write and speak English all proper like! And I don't wanna hear any of that crap about how "We were speaking English before Americans were!" because that's just a bunch of socialist propaganda!

But you're a Texan. They don't even speak American.

And what is 'English all proper like!'? My definition would vary from a Yorkshireman or a Geordie. Some parts of Bradford speak Hinglish.

I used to be in weekly contact with offices throughout the UK by phone. Whenever they rang me I could usually tell which office was calling by the accent. I could also understand them even though they weren't speaking standard English. The only one that was difficult was Belfast - the lady on the telephone was Dutch married to a Protestant Ulsterman - Ulster with Dutch overtones was interesting.

All of them speak English and spell the British way.

Og

PS. Unfortunately recent statistics show that many UK schoolleavers can't spell in English or American.

 

[rachlou]

But you're a Texan. They don't even speak American.

And what is 'English all proper like!'? My definition would vary from a Yorkshireman or a Geordie. Some parts of Bradford speak Hinglish.

I used to be in weekly contact with offices throughout the UK by phone. Whenever they rang me I could usually tell which office was calling by the accent. I could also understand them even though they weren't speaking standard English. The only one that was difficult was Belfast - the lady on the telephone was Dutch married to a Protestant Ulsterman - Ulster with Dutch overtones was interesting.

All of them speak English and spell the British way.

Og

PS. Unfortunately recent statistics show that many UK schoolleavers can't spell in English or American.

You can understand Geordie?? I can't! I also have problems with the Scouser accent. But then, I can't understand my daughter half the time as she speaks teen text talk

 

[minsue]

All you Brits need to go back to school and learn how to read, write and speak English all proper like! And I don't wanna hear any of that crap about how "We were speaking English before Americans were!" because that's just a bunch of socialist propaganda!

And it's not true, anyway.

From a BBC article on changes in English and so-called "Americanisms" -

<snip>...it's not right to imply that other varieties of English are versions of 'our' language. Americans don't speak a different version of British English; English speakers in the UK and the USA speak modern dialects which have both evolved from 16th century English. Today's British English is no nearer that common ancestor than American English is!

As it happens, American English has been more conservative than British English in some respects. It has retained the third syllable of words like library and secretary, whilst many British dialects use the newer forms secretree and libree*. Old words like diaper and fall are still used in America but have been replaced by new words (nappy and autumn) in Britain.

*They forgot the ones that drive me batty regularly - strawbree, raspbree, and all the other berries that are somehow brees o'er here.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Let those without sin cast the first diphthong.

--

Oh, why can't the English learn to set
A good example to people whose
English is painful to your ears?
The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears.
There even are places where English completely
disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!

--

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Vermilion]

And that's the crux of the matter isn't it?
English and American are two, separate languages. Luckily they have so much in common that we are generally able to understand each other, but they are different languages.

For instance - Italian and Spanish have several elements in common,but they are essentially different languages.

Why can the English not write in English and the Americans write in American and each can make the necessary allowances when reading the others' work?

The only time I would get cross about Americans getting language wrong is when they are writing a story set in England, as with a series I read recently where they used vernacular terms a little too freely and made some other basic errors, but otherwise I just apply a mental accent to what I'm reading and accept it as another language and culture, as I do when watching American television programmes.

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ps- I say Strawbrees etc... A form of oral laziness I guess. Mostly I'd say Strawbugs though - a weird thing I got from my mum, but that's another story entirely.

 

[minsue]

Why can the English not write in English and the Americans write in American and each can make the necessary allowances when reading the others' work?

I have no idea. It really is silly.

The only time I would get cross about Americans getting language wrong is when they are writing a story set in England, as with a series I read recently where they used vernacular terms a little too freely and made some other basic errors, but otherwise I just apply a mental accent to what I'm reading and accept it as another language and culture, as I do when watching American television programmes.

I notice the same over here, just the other way around. The wife just shushes me when I rant.

 

[Vermilion]

I have no idea. It really is silly.I notice the same over here, just the other way around. The wife just shushes me when I rant.

Ignore her - ranting is the spice of life.
The fiance and I are world champs at it
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[rgraham666]

What was that quote? Oh yes.

America and Canada are nations separated by a common language.

 

[Vermilion]

What was that quote? Oh yes.

America and Canada are nations separated by a common language.

I thought it was England and America... an Oscar Wilde quote I believe...
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[minsue]

I thought it was England and America... an Oscar Wilde quote I believe...
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I thought it was Shaw?

 

[Vermilion]

I thought it was Shaw?

"Sometimes the inquirer asks, ‘Was it Wilde or Shaw?’ The answer appears to be: both. In The Canterville Ghost (1887), Wilde wrote: ‘We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language’. However, the 1951 Treasury of Humorous Quotations (Esar & Bentley) quotes Shaw as saying: ‘England and America are two countries separated by the same language’, but without giving a source. The quote had earlier been attributed to Shaw in Reader’s Digest (November 1942)."
http://www1c.btwebworld.com/quote-unquote/p0000149.htm

Noone can make their minds up either way

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[gauchecritic]

"Sometimes the inquirer asks, ‘Was it Wilde or Shaw?’ The answer appears to be: both. In The Canterville Ghost (1887), Wilde wrote: ‘We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language’. However, the 1951 Treasury of Humorous Quotations (Esar & Bentley) quotes Shaw as saying: ‘England and America are two countries separated by the same language’, but without giving a source. The quote had earlier been attributed to Shaw in Reader’s Digest (November 1942)."
http://www1c.btwebworld.com/quote-unquote/p0000149.htm

Noone can make their minds up either way

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Couldn't find any audio/video for this so it's just the script

 

[starrkers]

I'll have to write my next one in Australian. That should confuse everyone

 

[oggbashan]

I'll have to write my next one in Australian. That should confuse everyone

Perhaps except me.

My favourite poets are C J Dennis (particularly his 'Austal-bloody-aise') and Banjo Patterson. I had to study "The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney" at school. I still read Arthur Upfield's Bony detective stories.

I have more Australian relations than I know how to count. They seem to breed like galahs.

Og

 

[tolyk]

I got noticed by Anonymous. My new story so far has garnered two anonymous email responses.
One was glowing praise.
The other I shall cherish, just wish I could reply.


I'm not British.

I love the word arse

 

[Vermilion]

I love the word arse

That message would have been funnier if you'd just said 'I love arse'
<giggles slightly hysterically.

Oh dear. It'd appear I've got to *that* stage of exhaustion.

Night night all
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