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[Showsni]

You can't tell the difference between Welsh accents and English accents? Welsh is about the only accent I can do, other than my own, with any degree of success...

Although, judging by your post, I wouldn't say much in support of our grammar.

What's wrong with my grammar?

[Nevermind]

Well how is it different then? It's like trying to pick a Canadian from a US person. I don't live there, so I'm not around them enough to pick the different accents. Between Irish, English and Scottish, however, it is very distinct.

[Zythe]

You can't tell the difference between Welsh accents and English accents? Welsh is about the only accent I can do, other than my own, with any degree of success...



What's wrong with my grammar?

Nothing, Fyxe was just being mean and decided to scrutinize your post, with her own comma use as "correct", comparatively.

[Fyxe]

But we clearly do drive on the correct side of the road. And our spellings are much better.

Our talkings are much gooder too.

And I was hardly being mean, poor child. I was just teasing.
My comma use is where I would put a pause in if I was saying it. That's the whole point of a comma, correct?

Although, judging by your post, I wouldn't say much in support of our grammar.

It would of been...

Although I wouldn't say much in support of our grammar.

But I added 'judging by your post'. Put it in brackets if you want to be really pendantic.

Although (judging by your post) I wouldn't say much in support of our grammar.

But that's tedious and if you ask me, unnecessary.

You could say...

Although judging by your post, I wouldn't say much in support of our grammar.

But that looks and sounds rather weird. It doesn't seperate 'judging by your post' into the aside I intended it to be. Nor does having them the other way around.

[SOAP]

Oy... now Aussies are spamming my thread...

*Beslaps everyone with the American flag.*

This is American property. You speak American in this thread.

[Fyxe]

YEE-HAW, YA'LL WANNA HAVE A WAR?

EUROPE? WHAT'S THAT, SOME KIND OF CHEESE?!?

BOBBY-SUE, JIMMY-BOB, FISHY-STEW JR., GET ME MY SLIPPERS AN' MAH GUN, I'M GONNA GO SHOOT SOME MURSLIMS.

Is that better?

[Vazor]

OK, first of all: I live in New York. I've never heard anyone talk like that, expcept in some really bad Mad TV skits.

Oh yes, because we just look for every excuse to find a war. The media just emphasizes the wars because people want to hear bad things about America. Do we have wars? Yes. Is it wrong to use war when reason will not be listened to? No.

I've never known anybody that feels hatred towards all "Murslims", or Muslims for that matter.

And we know what Europe is; we're not the ignoramouses the world seems to think us to be.

You'd better watch your mouth before you seriously get somebody pissed off at you. You're sounding very offensive here. And I hear a lot of offensive things. I don't care if you meant it as a joke; that's not how it came across.

[Fyxe]

Oh my.

You're actually offended? Even though you don't talk like that? Really, nobody in New York talks like that? I would never of GUESSED. I was SO trying to impersonate a New Yorker. Oh dear.

Notice that England is in the war too?

Listen, I don't get offended when Americans impersonate the Brits all the time with crap like 'pip pip' and 'witness my horrible teeth, what-o'.

Learn to laugh at yourself. No wonder you come across as super arrogant to the rest of the world.

[Vazor]

I can laugh at myself. I laugh at myself more than probably anyone you know. I can laugh at any joke, no matter who it's addressed to, as long as it's funny, which you weren't.

And I've never said "pip pip" in my life, not even in impersonations. I can actually do a British accent, so I don't resort to stereotypes.

[Fyxe]

I expect it's bad.

I wasn't trying to be funny. I wasn't trying to be accurate. I was just being mildly annoying. Call it paying it back. And being a bitch.

I don't CARE if you laugh at yourself or not, it seems you're totally offended even though my blatantly stereotypical ranting shouldn't actually be offensive if you're not like that. And I don't care if YOU don't say 'pip pip', but people do, and think we say it. For some freakin' reason. Oh, and all British guys are like Hugh Grant or say 'guv'nor'.

Oh, jolly nice tea, what? How about we invade some countries and bring some spiffing civilisation to them (and some lovely cheap labour)?

Oh my, there goes another tooth.

I think it's a marvellous time to go out and hunt some French, don't you? PIP FUCKING PIP.

There, see, it goes both ways. If I had said 'everyone must talk English' I wouldn't be surprised to get a post like that. Now get that stick outta your ass, good sir.

[SOAP]

Oh my.

You're actually offended? Even though you don't talk like that? Really, nobody in New York talks like that? I would never of GUESSED. I was SO trying to impersonate a New Yorker. Oh dear.

Notice that England is in the war too?

Listen, I don't get offended when Americans impersonate the Brits all the time with crap like 'pip pip' and 'witness my horrible teeth, what-o'.

Learn to laugh at yourself.  No wonder you come across as super arrogant to the rest of the world.

No one here in Texas talks like that. At least not within the last 100 yrears.

[Vazor]

And I don't care if YOU don't say 'pip pip', but people do, and think we say it.  For some freakin' reason.

*looks around*

I don't see any of those people here. Do you?

I thought most of the people on these forums were clever enough to use humor without resorting to stereotypes. Stereotypes are what stupid people do for a laugh. They lack the ability to make an intelligent joke, so they just blurt out stereotypes, sometimes even of themselves, and they expect it to be funny. It's not. So I don't want to hear your shit about how all of us Americans seem to generalize the British, because we don't. Not the intelligent ones at least.

[Nevermind]

Yeah, well, no one I know, or have ever known, barbeques shrimp over here. Hell, we barely even say g'day or mate anymore. It's called a stereotype, bud, and every country does it to every other country, so don't make it too personal.

[Selena]

Well, I'm an American and ~I~ found that funny. Ease up, people. You make yourselves look silly when you work yourselves up over jokes. XP


Although Vazor does have a point. We've left Britain alone for a while. We pick on Canada. It's closer.

[Toan]

Lena's right, ease up - I don't wanna have to close this thread to save some feelings here.

[SOAP]

Especially mine since I never intended for this kind of dicussion when I started this thread.

[Fyxe]

Well damn, I don't exactly keep up on the news of who you in particular make stereotypes about, Vazor. O.o''

Honestly, it was meant to be about as offensive as a wooden club around the head. Not offensive, just maybe slightly annoying.

And I see British jokes on shows like The Daily Show on a regular basis, so ya-boo-sucks to you. They tend to be terrible and completely miss the mark but I don't care because it's a good show anyway.

You said talk American, so I tried to think of the most stereotypically American way of talking possible. It actually came out as some sort of demented parody of Bush, who, of course (and unfortunately for you guys) is the figurehead of America.

Lets just kelm down an' put another shrimp on theh barbey.

...Never understood that stereotype either, Lazaru. But then if we didn't have that one we wouldn't have any Aussie stereotypes *left*.

But dude, you can't stop saying 'g'day', that's just weird. You'll go from laid-back and cool to cynical and pissed off like we Brits.
Apparently.

[Nevermind]

Well we still do say it, just not as much as it was always made out that we do. And I gotta admit, I do say mate a fair bit, but I'm a rarity. It's not how we talk that make us laid back, sweety, it's our attitudes. I've said it before; that's why there'll never be a civil war in Australia, cos no one really cares XD

And as far as I was aware, bbq'd shrimp/prawns was a Filipino dish.

[SOAP]

And I do say "y'all." I'm not particularly Southern but I can't seem to help it. I don't know where I picked it up from though since I grew up in an army town and no one speaks like that where I'm from.

I'm also with the Dixie Chicks as far as Bush is concerned. I think he gives a really bad name to Texans. We're not a bunch of small-minded cowboys that like to blow up eeverything they see.

[Nevermind]

Hey, I say y'all sometimes too and I'm WAY out of there.

[SOAP]

Heh, heh. I also say g'day and g'night [img]http://forums.legendsalliance.com/public/ALOT.png[/img] too. I have nO idea where I picked it up though but when I say those things, the last thing on my mind is Aussie Stereotypes.

[Zythe]

YEE-HAW, YA'LL WANNA HAVE A WAR?

EUROPE?  WHAT'S THAT, SOME KIND OF CHEESE?!?

BOBBY-SUE, JIMMY-BOB, FISHY-STEW JR., GET ME MY SLIPPERS AN' MAH GUN, I'M GONNA GO SHOOT SOME MURSLIMS.

Is that better?

You're a comedy genius.

[Fyxe]

Not particularly.

[Hana-Nezumi]

It's "y'all", not "ya'll".

[Showsni]

Well how is it different then? It's like trying to pick a Canadian from a US person. I don't live there, so I'm not around them enough to pick the different accents. Between Irish, English and Scottish, however, it is very distinct.

Welsh kind of goes up and down. Here's an example of a Welsh accent: http://www.bbc.co.uk...monstration.ram

Of course, different parts of Wales have different accents...

[Nevermind]

Ahh yeah, the British Jamaican. I've heard that accent before, I just thought it was another style of English accent. Hehe, the British Rasta's mon XD.

Sorry bout the resolution. You gotta see it full resolution to see his facial expressions XD but hey it's the best I could do to keep it small.

[Wolf O'Donnell]

Well, they do, but around the world sometimes it's just easier to say you're British. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, that's ancient history. I'm English, but despite the British Empire being an oppressive regime I don't want to be involved with, I don't mind being called British. I like the Scots and the Welsh and the Irish and I like being considered as a 'collective' with them. It would be stupid not be just because of what is now something that's quite long gone in history.

And if you're not genetically/racially English you tend to say you're British.

We drive on the left, just like the Japanese because of swords. Yup. Sword are the reason we drive on the left.

http://www.2pass.co.uk/goodluck.htm

You guys just drive on the right because you didn't want to be anything like us Brits.