A few differences between British and American English

[perubu]

Linné invented plants and other vegetabilia, Kamprad
invented furniture no one can assemble right, and
Andree invented dying near the north-pole after a
risky balloon flight with only polar bears and seals
there to watch it happen.

I'm stuck in-between on the language matter.
Oxford English in school and Clint Eastwood in
Italian westerns at the movies. No wonder I
sound goofy.

[babefan14]

Originally Posted by SaintsDecay

Larry the Cable Guy haunts my nightmares.

Agreed. I honestly don't mind the other "Blue Collar" guys. Foxworthy, Engvall, White; those guys can make me laugh pretty good. But Larry is just obnoxious. I realize it's just a character he does, but he's always on. It got old in less than five minutes.

[dublin666]

Originally Posted by babefan14

Agreed. I honestly don't mind the other "Blue Collar" guys. Foxworthy, Engvall, White; those guys can make me laugh pretty good. But Larry is just obnoxious. I realize it's just a character he does, but he's always on. It got old in less than five minutes.

I used to live in eastern Nebraska, where he's from, and nobody there speaks like he does. Its just a bad act of what he thinks a hay seed sounds like.

[dublin666]

Originally Posted by Armanoïd

True
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_ray"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%27s_oscillator

[SaintsDecay]

My problem with the Blue Collar guys isn't the supposedly Southern style, it's the obnoxious catchphrases. When that DVD came out, everybody and their mother bought it, and started repeating the catchphrases constantly. It went from being kind of funny to annoying as hell very quickly. I can't stand comics like Dane Cook for the same reason. It's perfectly fine if comics have their own trademark style, but just stop repeating the same thing over and over again.

Really, the only comic on that tour that I kind of like is Ron White, and that's really because he reminds me a bit of Carlin and doesn't rely on catchphrases as much. Engvall is funny when he's not doing the old 'Here's Your Sign' bit.

Larry the Cable Guy does remind me of people from back home. People just embraced him there like he was the the manifestation of bow hunting season. Although zoan06 is from the northern part of my state and I'm from the south, I'm sure he could corroborate that.

[monkeys37]

One that was weird to me as an American when I first started following soccer is the way the British use the term "pace". It actually means essentially the same thing in both American and British English I think, but we never use it in the manner that the British do.

The British say that someone "has pace" whereas Americans would call that person "fast", or say that he "has speed". The British also describe people as "pacey", which is something that is never used in American English. We'd just say he's "fast", again.

The thing that bothers me is when American soccer fans describe a player as "pacey". It sounds stupid. The issue is that they apparently think that every term the British use when describing soccer is mandatory soccer jargon, and not just a peculiarity of British English.

[dublin666]

UK US
crisps=chips
chips=fries
braces=suspenders
lift=elevator
football=watching grass grow

[alexora]

Originally Posted by dublin666

UK US
crisps=chips
chips=fries
braces=suspenders
lift=elevator
football=watching grass grow

UK:
Female football player: butch

US:
Male soccer player: sissy

[dublin666]

Originally Posted by monkeys37

One that was weird to me as an American when I first started following soccer is the way the British use the term "pace". It actually means essentially the same thing in both American and British English I think, but we never use it in the manner that the British do.

The British say that someone "has pace" whereas Americans would call that person "fast", or say that he "has speed". The British also describe people as "pacey", which is something that is never used in American English. We'd just say he's "fast", again.

The thing that bothers me is when American soccer fans describe a player as "pacey". It sounds stupid. The issue is that they apparently think that every term the British use when describing soccer is mandatory soccer jargon, and not just a peculiarity of British English.

Some Americans are the same with the Jaguar car. An American saying Jag-u-r is just pretentious. Because they will always call the S American cat a Jag-wire

[SaintsDecay]

Originally Posted by alexora

UK:
Female football player: butch

US:
Male soccer player: sissy

One of my best friends played soccer since he was a kid and I watched him play a couple of times. I also watched a couple games in the Carribbean-- it's huge there. It is a tough sport. I just think so many Americans downplay it because of their lack of exposure to it, which is nothing new to them.

Originally Posted by dublin666

Some Americans are the same with the Jaguar car. An American saying Jag-u-r is just pretentious. Because they will always call the S American cat a Jag-wire

Definitely. Although I say 'Jag-war'. Anything else does sound pretentious with my accent.

Americans have the same problem I think with Porche cars. Some say 'Porsh-ah', others say 'Porsh'. The former just sounds more fancy than it needs to be coming from us.

Funny thing-- I dated this girl once that was convinced the Tolkien character Aragorn was pronounced 'Aragon'. After months of trying to convince her that they were just using English accents and we should pronounce it as it's spelled, I gave up.