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[HAL9000]

Fuck British people, I was watching a video preview for a new HTC phone. And every time they say H, it sounded like they were saying an entire fucking word

"this is the haych-TC" I wanted to punch somebody in the face.

That fucking pisses ME off, only morons add the letter H to the front of H, it's pronounced Atche. I don't know anyone who says it like that.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Bollocks. :biggrin:

 

[QueBert]

That fucking pisses ME off, only morons add the letter H to the front of H, it's pronounced Atche. I don't know anyone who says it like that.

Your people do it all the time, I could link to 50 different videos where some Limey Brit turns a single letter into an entire word.

 

[HAL9000]

C'mon neckarb... The English invented the language, but we made it cool. If you visited the US you HAD to have noticed some comical pronunciations. Both sides of the pond butcher the language, so lets make fun of some Yankees!

Good spot, American's have some hilarious things they say such as:

Aloooominum
They've confused Jelly and Jam somewhere along the way.
They knocked the letter U out of Colour because it scares them
Changed Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone to "Sorcerers" because long words are complicated
Change Coupé to coop because french is scary.

Is that enough? It feels like enough.

I couldn't care less <--- Notice I COULDN'T care less. Not "I could care less" which is complete rubbish.

Edit: OH! and my personal least favourite they call us English people "Brits" when we are English, though they call Scottish people Scotts for some reason.

Edit 2: OH! Annnd one last one... The toilet is not a bathroom, it has no bath necessarily, it is not a rest room, you don't go there to rest, and it's not a wash room, you don't go there to wash. It's a toilet.

And they all think they are irish even if they've never seen ireland.

 

[HAL9000]

Your people do it all the time, I could link to 50 different videos where some Limey Brit turns a single letter into an entire word.

Turns a letter into an entire word?...?

 

[MovingTarget]

Good spot, American's have some hilarious things they say such as:

Alooooooooooooooooominum Guilty as charged.
They've confused Jelly and Jam somewhere along the way. There's a difference? What about Preserves?
They knocked the letter U out of Colour because it scares them This was the real reason behind our Declaration of Independence. Fuck unnecessary u's.
Changed Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone to "Sorcerers" because long words are complicated Seriously? Is this true? D:
Change Coupé to coop because french is scary. IIRC, we do drop the accent mark, but thats it. A coupe is a car, but a coop is where you keep chickens.

Is that enough? It feels like enough.

I couldn't care less <--- Notice I COULDN'T care less. Not "I could care less" which is complete rubbish.

Responses in bold. Also, what do you use as a plural form of "you"? In my region, y'all is an acceptable plural, but those from the northern/western parts of the country tend to frown upon that.

 

[HAL9000]

Responses in bold. Also, what do you use as a plural form of "you"? In my region, y'all is an acceptable plural, but those from the northern/western parts of the country tend to frown upon that.

Over here the plural of you is you. As in "hey you two"

Also yeah it's true about HP1... Insane

Fair enough but you change if from a Coup&#233; (Coupay) to a coupe (coop)

Also over here Jelly is the wobbly thing, Jam is made of strawberry or raspberries or something similar. Then there's Marmalade made of all sorts of crap and tastes different from either.

 

[MovingTarget]

Edit: OH! and my personal least favourite they call us English people "Brits" when we are English, though they call Scottish people Scotts for some reason.



And they all think they are irish even if they've never seen ireland.

I know. I was just trying to "get your goat" so to speak. This is what I always thought it was:
English/Welsh/Scottish/Irish: From England, Wales, Scotland, or N. Ireland, respectively
British: From the Island of Britain, including England, Scotland, and Wales.
UK: From either the Island of Britain or from North Ireland.

Is this correct? (I'm honestly curious as I have a friend in England proper and distant relatives in Scotland)

Edit 2: OH! Annnd one last one... The toilet is not a bathroom, it has no bath necessarily, it is not a rest room, you don't go there to rest, and it's not a wash room, you don't go there to wash. It's a toilet.

I'll agree with you there. You don't bathe in a toilet, but you can in fact rest there depending on what you ate. D:

You do go there to wash (your hands), so that may be appropriate to a degree.

 

[HAL9000]

I know. I was just trying to "get your goat" so to speak. This is what I always thought it was:
English/Welsh/Scottish/Irish: From England, Wales, Scotland, or N. Ireland, respectively
British: From the Island of Britain, including England, Scotland, and Wales.
UK: From either the Island of Britain or from North Ireland.

Is this correct? (I'm honestly curious as I have a friend in England proper and distant relatives in Scotland)

You are absolutely right, English people are british but not all british people are English, so when you call someone british you are being very general, like calling someone European. So you can't make the joke. A Brit, a Scottish man and an Irishman walk into a bar... Because they are all british.

I'll agree with you there. You don't bathe in a toilet, but you can in fact rest there depending on what you ate. D:

You do go there to wash (your hands), so that may be appropriate to a degree.

Yes it would but 90% of the time when people go to a washroom they go for a piss or a shit. To use the toilet.

 

[MovingTarget]

Over here the plural of you is you. As in "hey you two"

Also yeah it's true about HP1... Insane

Fair enough but you change if from a Coupé (Coupay) to a coupe (coop)

Also over here Jelly is the wobbly thing, Jam is made of strawberry or raspberries or something similar. Then there's Marmalade made of all sorts of crap and tastes different from either.

We prefer to say y'all as a contraction of 'you all' whereas other regions have a variation of 'you guys'. It has the same number of syllables as 'you', but does serve to differentiate between singular and plural. Perhaps one day English will adopt a formal difference between you and you plural.

We simply call the wobbly thing Jello or Gelatin. Jam, to us, is a bit thicker and not as uniform as jelly. Marmalade? I'm not really sure.

You should really try to use y'all over there. A friend of mine who is going to university in England uses it all the time just to throw people for a loop. Its great.

 

[HAL9000]

We prefer to say y'all as a contraction of 'you all' whereas other regions have a variation of 'you guys'. It has the same number of syllables as 'you', but does serve to differentiate between singular and plural. Perhaps one day English will adopt a formal difference between you and you plural.

We simply call the wobbly thing Jello or Gelatin. Jam, to us, is a bit thicker and not as uniform as jelly. Marmalade? I'm not really sure.

You should really try to use y'all over there. A friend of mine who is going to university in England uses it all the time just to throw people for a loop. Its great.

Doesn't sound right to me, it's like "Sheep" and "Sheep" it's "you" and "you" there doesn't seem to be a need for it over here.

 

[MovingTarget]

You are absolutely right, English people are british but not all british people are English, so when you call someone british you are being very general, like calling someone European. So you can't make the joke. A Brit, a Scottish man and an Irishman walk into a bar... Because they are all british.



Yes it would but 90% of the time when people go to a washroom they go for a piss or a shit. To use the toilet.

I suppose that is because we consider Britain to be the dominant state/country/kingdom? of the island. It may be an unintentional compliment I guess.

Even if people do go to the washroom/bathroom/restroom to use the toilet, they had better wash their hands afterwards! (Preferably not in the toilet though)

We also park in driveways and drive in parkways. Go figure.

 

[HAL9000]

I suppose that is because we consider Britain to be the dominant state/country/kingdom? of the island. It may be an unintentional compliment I guess.

Even if people do go to the washroom/bathroom/restroom to use the toilet, they had better wash their hands afterwards! (Preferably not in the toilet though)

We also park in driveways and drive in parkways. Go figure.

Hah that's a good one, I like the compliment but I also much prefer being an "Englishmen" brit almost seems derogatory.

There are a couple of reasonable changes though, for example Side-walk makes sense, so does "trunk" for the boot of a car. Boot really makes no sense at all.

We park in car parks.

 

[ElFenix]

jelly, jam, and preserves are all different things. jelly is juice, jam is crushed fruit, and preserves are chunky fruit.

 

[preslove]

Toilet is a harsh word. When I lived in England I called it the 'WC.'

 

[HAL9000]

jelly, jam, and preserves are all different things. jelly is juice, jam is crushed fruit, and preserves is chunky fruit.

Jelly is a juice where you live?!

 

[ElFenix]

Jelly is a juice where you live?!

made from juice.

 

[HAL9000]

Toilet is a harsh word. When I lived in England I called it the 'WC.'

I've only seen that on signs never heard it spoken.

 

[HAL9000]

made from juice.

It still looks like this though?

 

[MovingTarget]

It still looks like this though?

Nope, that is gelatin or jello. Jelly is a fruit spread that you can put on toast, waffles, etc. that is clear throughout. You can get little packets of it to put at resteraunts that serve breakfast.

 

[HAL9000]

Nope, that is gelatin or jello. Jelly is a fruit spread that you can put on toast, waffles, etc. that is clear throughout. You can get little packets of it to put at resteraunts that serve breakfast.

Ahh I see, that's Jam over here.

 

[ElFenix]

Ahh I see, that's Jam over here.

jam is similar but has bits of fruit in it.

jelly has pectin in it, so if you used pectin instead of gelatin to set your fruit juice, then you'd have jelly. otherwise, you'd have jello.


edit: ninja pic added, i'd call that jam.

 

[preslove]

I've only seen that on signs never heard it spoken.

I heard a couple Londoners say it and then started using it.

Ahh I see, that's Jam over here.

That has fruit in it, therefore it is jam. The same thing, but without fruit, would be jelly.

 

[HAL9000]

jam is similar but has bits of fruit in it.

jelly has pectin in it, so if you used pectin instead of gelatin to set your fruit juice, then you'd have jelly. otherwise, you'd have jello.


edit: ninja pic added, i'd call that jam.

See now if it has no bits of fruit and slightly thicker as you describe it's marmalade.

I heard a couple Londoners say it and then started using it.

Bizzare

That has fruit in it, therefore it is jam. The same thing, but without fruit, would be jelly.

Ahh see without fruit in it, slightly thicker is marmalade.

 

[ElFenix]

marmalade has peel in it and must be citrus. in spanish everything we're talking about is marmalade.