America According to a 30 year old American

[Zigs]

I found this interesting

 

[Anniekay]

Yes, we have plenty of dumb Americans, just like every other country has their share of them. I suppose they can't really help it, not everyone got the "brilliant" genes, if they did the world wouldn't be so forked-up !!

 

[Zigs]

Yes, we have plenty of dumb Americans, just like every other country has their share of them. I suppose they can't really help it, not everyone got the "brilliant" genes, if they did the world wouldn't be so forked-up !!

I can't find it now but there's a hand drawn map of the UK dividing us up into Sheep/Haggis & Cider

 

[olly-buckle]

Yes, we have plenty of dumb Americans, just like every other country has their share of them.

I think you meant dumb people, but that reads like we all have a share of dumb Americans, maybe we do.

 

[Anniekay]

I think you meant dumb people, but that reads like we all have a share of dumb Americans, maybe we do.

The only Americans that get noticed abroad are the dumb ones !!

 

[Jersey Devil]

I found this interesting

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Its sad, but soooo true Don't wanna sound like a grumpy old man but I think they should put the phones down and pick up some books

 

[big rockpile]

I was told one time I was going to Las Vegas right off the bat knowing the U.S. I was wishing I had more money.

Then they finished Las Vegas New Mexico.

big rockpile

 

[olly-buckle]

That's like me telling a Canadian I was brought up in Edmonton "You have lost your accent." Edmonton in North London.

 

[Anniekay]

That's like me telling a Canadian I was brought up in Edmonton "You have lost your accent." Edmonton in North London.

That's what people tell me about my accent. Since I moved to the South in the 80's other New Englanders notice a little southern twang and Southerners, after speaking with me for a few minutes, ask where I originally came from. They usually guess New York, but no, New Yorkers speak much differently than do New Englanders but not to the unedified they don't !!

 

[Zigs]

I'm originally from this end of the country but I've spent longer living in the other end of the country so when I say things like, tis what it tis and casn't be what it tissent, people from this end of the country don't understand me

 

[Anniekay]

I'm originally from this end of the country but I've spent longer living in the other end of the country so when I say things like, tis what it tis and casn't be what it tissent, people from this end of the country don't understand me

You sound just like my Grandmother !! She and I used to have Tis, / Tisn't fights when I'd tell her I thought something was something it wasn't !! We'd get going Tis and Tisn'ting fast and furious then she'd switch to Tis and would always get me automatically saying Tisn't when I didn't want to !!

Boy, that was a long time ago

 

[Zigs]

Sounds like Granny be frum Darzet, just the pleace vor 'ee ta zee

 

[Anniekay]

Sounds like Granny be frum Darzet, just the pleace vor 'ee ta zee

She was bilingual french Canadian, English Canadian.

 

[olly-buckle]

English accents used to be very regional before the first world war and 'locals' from different areas didn't understand each other at all. Regiments were made up of locals from a single area that understood each other and headed by the aristocracy who spoke 'received' English together and understood their own locals. Then after the disastrous attacks that decimated regiments the remains were united in new regiments, this threw people together and they started to learn each other's way of talking. Also junior officers from the new middle classes started to be appointed as there were not enough aristocracy left. After the war the BBC started and pretty soon most people could talk two ways, their own local dialect for every day, and an imitation of BBC English that 'foreigners' could understand.