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Oxydosic ([info]oxydosic) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-04-17 19:35:00
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Short and sweet...
[info]tigerwolf informs the denizens of [info]bad_service that Mexicans don't speak real Spanish.

People disagree.

EDIT: It's also made stupid_free, of course.

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[info]sisterelwood
2007-04-18 12:00 am UTC (link)
[info]baby_dreamerActually, a former friend of mine who is from England said that yes we speak "American English". I totally agree with her. Of course, I'm biased being as I've got heavy British ancestry and have taken the time to learn "proper" English.

Okay, this? Genius. There needs to be a law about your background doesn't determine your ability to speak a language if we don't already have one.

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[info]mochibuni
2007-04-18 12:43 am UTC (link)
So..."proper" English is using Brit slang and, what? Making sure to say which word has an extra vowel?

"I'd like that colour with a u."

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[info]sisterelwood
2007-04-18 02:35 am UTC (link)
If that's true the awesome. I can start using 'bugger' in everyday conversation without feeling a little out-of-place. It's the rest of the world that's not proper.

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[info]mcity
2007-04-18 02:47 am UTC (link)
As long as we say "herbs" with a frakkin' H in it.

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[info]squeakytoy
2007-04-18 03:01 am UTC (link)
I still can't get over it being 'erbs', but it's 'herbivore'.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2007-04-18 03:14 am UTC (link)
...it's 'erbivore'.

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[info]squeakytoy
2007-04-18 03:19 am UTC (link)
...what? All of it?

erb, erbivore, erbivorous, erbal, erbalistic, erbaceous...?

I was given to understand that it was only some of the derivations of 'herb' that dropped the haitch in American English.

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[info]miraba
2007-04-18 03:24 am UTC (link)
It may partially depend on the region, but I pronounce the h in herbivore, herbivorous, and herbaceous.

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[info]squeakytoy
2007-04-18 03:53 am UTC (link)
Ahhh...well, we'll just sign it off as 'regional differences' then.

After all, I sound nothing like Steve Irwin.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2007-04-18 03:42 am UTC (link)
Yeah, all of it, though it tends to be a breathy vowel in which you might hear an h if you really wanted to.

(For the record, I have a fairly "standard" accent without a lot of regional variations (mix of California Bay Area and a teeny bit of Mid-Atlantic from nine years spent in a Maryland suburb of DC, which really only manifests as a tendancy to begin to shorten and drop my vowels when excited/lazy).)

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[info]squeakytoy
2007-04-18 03:57 am UTC (link)
See, I'm dreadful with American accents. Can't even tell the American from the Canadian.

(I usually just ask if people are from Canada: it's safer, and the Americans never hit you for thinking they're Canadian.)

So Bay Area, Mid-Atlantic, etc, etc, mean very little - you all sound pretty much the same to my ear.

On the other hand, I know the Kiwi from the Aussie (duh) and the South African from the English. Not sure I have the Irish/Scottish worked out and I've never heard anyone from Wales before.

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[info]melisus
2007-04-18 04:45 am UTC (link)
The way to tell the difference between a Canadian and an American (regardless of region) is to have them say a word with a short "o". Canadians pronounce their vowels a little more drawn out than Americans (which is why they stereotypically think Canadians say "aboot").

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[info]plazmah
2007-04-18 03:17 pm UTC (link)
I'll never get where people get that "aboot" thing, because I cannot hear it myself! When I went to university (which was outside Toronto) two of my friends (who were from Vancouver and Edmonton) used to laugh at the way we said "about" over here.

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[info]brown_betty
2007-04-18 05:56 am UTC (link)
Q. You have a swimming pool fool of Canadians and Americans. How do you identify the Americans?

A. You say, "Everyone out of the pool!" Those remaining in the pool are Americans.

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(no subject) - [info]zyna_kat, 2007-04-18 10:03 am UTC
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[info]keri
2007-04-18 05:15 pm UTC (link)
random, but amusing to me: the only accents I can tell apart are Irish, Scottish, and Welsh. I can't tell Australian from Kiwi from South African, and any other accents from England generally sound the same to me. Alas.


I don't even know how I can tell Irish from Scottish, either, but I commented once that a customer had a lovely Scottish accent and that it's rare to hear it in my part of Florida, and she was surprised that I pegged it correctly, so... *shrugs* proof's in the pudding, I guess

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[info]influencethis
2007-04-18 06:52 pm UTC (link)
Um, from Chicago here, and I pronounce no H's in any of those words. But maybe I'm from the freakish side of America.

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[info]darthmaligna
2007-04-19 02:27 am UTC (link)
If you say "soda" instead of "pop" you don't get any say in English pronunciation because you don't speak real English.

VIVA CHICAGO.

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[info]rikiki
2007-04-19 03:34 am UTC (link)
But it's "soda." Or "Coke." Or "Where's my drink, damnit?"

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[info]vigilanterodent
2007-04-19 03:50 am UTC (link)
Yeah, whatever, Lincolnfucker. At least we southeastern Wisconsin soda-drinkers can drive.

Crazy Illnoisianilliangers.

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[info]radiotrash
2007-04-18 03:18 am UTC (link)
"Herbs" sounds like a group of people named Herb are loitering around somewhere.

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[info]ladysorka
2007-04-18 01:33 am UTC (link)
I'm oddly tempted to follow people around not from England who claim they speak "proper English" when they mean "British English" and be the "gotten" police.

"Nope! You used the word 'gotten' five times today! That's 5 points off your English license and a $200 fine, please."

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[info]sisterelwood
2007-04-18 02:37 am UTC (link)
Can you follow it up with a swift kick in the ass?

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[info]kahteh
2007-04-18 02:21 pm UTC (link)
Arse.



*flees*

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[info]harrylovesron
2007-04-18 02:44 am UTC (link)
The Law of English As She Is Spoke?

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magpiggles
2007-04-18 11:41 am UTC (link)
Thanks for getting the idlewild song stuck in my head, baby_dreamer...

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