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Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: the league of Professional Mop Jockeys |
posted 08-09-2004 07:20
There are two things that really bug me in the language department. One is people who insist that to americans ( not native americans or feathered indians) the english language is a foriegn language and that we speak american. The other is that people actually believe that there is an american language. The 'american language' is nothing more than the english language with a few differant slang phrases (which 75% of those aren't truely ours by origin). You don't go teach an incoming immigrant American as a second language so he can communicate you teach him ENGLISH as a second language!!!! What americans speak doesn't have words that mean differant things than in english. Words are conjugated the same way, so why would people need to classify it as a language other than for the reasons than they are either arrogant or embarassed that we can't come up with our own original language?!?!?!??? |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: out there |
posted 08-09-2004 08:33
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Bipolar (III) Inmate From: BC, Canada |
posted 08-09-2004 10:41 |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Gig Harbor, WA |
posted 08-09-2004 17:57
Pen Pen... watching a bit of NGE eh? |
Obsessive-Compulsive (I) Inmate From: Tennessee |
posted 08-16-2004 08:22
I hate Americanized English. It's differences are minute and completely annoying to me. Tennessee isn't known for practicing refined English, so I have to watch how I speak carefully. |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: BC, Canada |
posted 08-16-2004 08:52 |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: The Pool Of Life |
posted 08-16-2004 13:44 |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Gig Harbor, WA |
posted 08-16-2004 17:12
It's kinda like the metric system. We do one thing, the rest of the world does another collectively, yet... they're wrong somehow |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: out of nowhere... |
posted 08-16-2004 21:18
Awwww, come on! Let the Americans have their little eccentricities with the English language. It is only fair that they individualise their inherited tongue in a bid to identify themselves; to create a sense of unifying culture. I can't say I've met many Americans who boast English roots, but I have met many proudly self-declared Irish-American descendants. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: out of nowhere... |
posted 08-16-2004 21:23
To clarify - it's all in the pronunciation rather than the spelling. |
Obsessive-Compulsive (I) Inmate From: |
posted 08-17-2004 01:42
the american language is basterized from british english. its supposed to be...it is how it is...we are over thousands of miles away, it would have to be different then british english, obviously. and there are differences in the languages like spelling, and words. like pants...they are like jeans in america, but in the u.k. they are underwear..go figure. |
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: the league of Professional Mop Jockeys |
posted 08-17-2004 21:28
i still say as long as we americans are going to go about with our cookie-cutter ways sticking to whatever is deamed the latest trend and thinking more like a flock of sheep rather than individuals we might as well not try and have our own language. |
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Inside THE BOX |
posted 08-18-2004 15:38 |
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: Tennessee |
posted 08-19-2004 02:59
I think he is looking for bastardized. Ironically enough, bastard is a word that is neglected in America. It is often used in its slang form and one is looked down upon when using it legitimately. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: beyond the gray sky |
posted 08-19-2004 06:08
with all this talk of american english vs. true english, I feel I need to say that everywhere you go, there are going to be different dialects, and one word may not mean the same thing in these different dialects. in the states, we call cigarettes cigarettes but I've heard that (and I very well may be wrong) the british call cigarettes fags. this is just one example. there are many more. I'd like to see a person speaking proper british english attempt to understand the way I speak (alabama native, very heavy southern accent) |
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: the league of Professional Mop Jockeys |
posted 08-20-2004 04:58
although i do not know whether or not you are wrong about British citizens calling cigarettes fags i do know the origin of why we call gays fags. A fag in it's original meaning actually refers to a bundle of sticks. In many countries gays were burned at the stake, the fuel for this activity would traditionally be a good number of bundled sticks or fags. Thus creating the phrase fags and flamer to pertain to gays. Besides if English is a universal language why make some words mean one thing one place and the same word mean the same thing a differant place? |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: BC, Canada |
posted 08-20-2004 05:09
I think that they do call it "smoking a fag" in Britain. |
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: Tennessee |
posted 08-20-2004 07:02
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Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Long Island, NY |
posted 08-20-2004 07:18
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Bipolar (III) Inmate From: BC, Canada |
posted 08-20-2004 07:27
I can't understand what anyone here is saying, I only speak Canadian. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: out of nowhere... |
posted 08-20-2004 13:33
Yep, we do sometimes call cigarettes fags, as in "I'm going for a fag break". It isn't a strict thing though, as I rarely use it - I find that calling a cigarette a cigarette is good enough for me. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: out of nowhere... |
posted 08-20-2004 13:35
Ah, but isn't French the most widely spoken language globally (unlike Chinese, which is supposed to be spoken by more people than any other, but within a narrow geographical region)? |