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[Bigtruckgirl]

practicing with a "C" and not an "S." I do know that for me, my English teacher would have killed me if I used an "S," because there is no "S" in practice. LOL

That's an American/English thing.

Evidently then FF spell checker is American English based.

On a side note I do agree that we here in the US tend to do thing very differently that Queen's English. Funny story....

We were on the way back from Germany and unfortunately missed our connection at Gatwick and got to spend a lovely evening in Sury. We were having a nice chat with a very nice German lady in the hotel shuttle and got on the discussion of English. Her English was wonderful and she had spent years in both the UK and the US during her studies. She very nicely told me to be prepared for "proper" Queen's English when we arrived at the hotel. I told her not to worry, I was sure I could understand English just fine, she said jokingly "OK, I warned you."  

We get to the hotel and the lady behind the desk rattled off something that left me looking at her is complete confusion. I have no idea what she said, and it was English, just not something I understood. The German lady busted out laughing and said "I told you so." The German lady had to translate "proper Queen's English" for me! :shock: She then told me that even though the US form of English is a little screwy, it is much easier to learn and pick up. As if that made things better for me.

It was a unique experience. I did not have this much of a "language barrier" in Germany, Lithuania or anyplace else I have been to and supposedly our English derived from theirs.  :lol:

Actually its not like that all over america. Not meaning to offend anybody but it *seems* to *me* that everybody talks decent except us southerners. Instead of ours when we say it it sounds like "ares" and instead of about to we say "fixin' to" or "fissen to" Oneeyewillie if anybody's language was truly fucked up its the southern US. But what really sucks is NO MATTER how much you try not to talk "southern" it doesn't work. Like I try my BESTEST Not to say Y'all but it's the first word that comes out of my mouth when I talk to someone. And don't even talk about names. Can't even say Eleanore down here it sounds like "Eliner"

I'm glad you were not trying to offend and I see you count yourself as a southerner.  :lol:

PS. I've lived in NC all of my life and other than the slower pronunciation of certain words and the occasional use of y'all, I don't speak like that. This would have been another thing my English teacher (who was English meaning British BTW) would have killed me for.  

[Bigtruckgirl]

Sorry double thought I pasted it all into one. LOL

[Hecubus]

While I grew up in and currently live again in Upstate New York, I spent 15 years in North Carolina...and I can tell you, I will never stop saying "y'all"..it's the long-needed second person plural! (Although my family laughs when I say "all y'all").


My favorite Southern/Northern story comes from the Raleigh, NC area...the man who started a local chain of quick oil change stores called a company in Brooklyn, NY, to make their sign. What he ordered was the text "Oil Tune and Lube". What the signmaker HEARD was "All Tune and Lube".

Upon receipt, the business owner decided it would cost less to change the DBA and subsequent incorporation documents than to have the signs redone.

[missangelica]

I understand where you are coming from Redlove but at the same time I want to punch ya for making such a huge generalization.  :lol:  I've only been out of Texas for like two days of my life so yeah, it's a bit inevitable that I have a bit of an accent.  Now, that doesn't mean I'm incomprehensible in red neck proportions.  It's just an accent. ;p  

What I can't stand is the New Yorker (and surrounding areas) accent on women.. it's like nails on chalkboard to me.  It's as sexy as a burly truck driver saying he's wearing panties.

[RedLove]

Missangelic I live in Tennesse. This is like redneck country around here. I don't really talk *redneck* so to speak but after having friends and hearing people around here who are obviously redneck I just wanna punch in the face and then kill myself. It's SOOOO annoying. I mean yea I don't always pronounce the "g" when I say "talking" or some other word but hell. I atleast speak a little faster then they do. My dad took my car to this guy to have it worked on and it took him  20 minutes to tell me my transmission was about to go out. It went something like "Nooooww loook here. See what ya got here is...and then...but you can fix that by going to...autoshop. You know how to get there? No? Well take a right on the redlight down the street thennnn take a left...naw naw wait wait." God I wanted to punch him so bad. It was funny because we got in the car and my dad was like "Now what we have here is a failure to communicate" *love that movie*

[Tchannie]

I'm not sure what you mean by "Queen's English" coz like NO-ONE talks like the Queen. I mean it. That's RP ("Received Pronunciation") and whilst many people speak modified RP (I guess I do a lot of the time) nobody actually speaks proper RP like the Queen. So whatever this "Queen's English" is, it's a load of bollocks. ^^

Nii, what IS a redneck? I'm not sure, and I don't understand the term of speaking like one--how do you communicate?

Oh and bloody hell, I know I talk quickly 'n' all, but for goddess's sakes people-in-America, please talk slow enough for me to undersand you!!!! Bloody hell! The only person I'm aware of who doesn't speak 100-words-a-minute is George-Bloody-Bush, and I don't give a toss what he's saying (except to make fun of it, har har)...

[missangelica]

:lol: I was going to mention how we do talk slower and you put it more eloquently than me.

My youngest sister went to Tennessee with her best friend's family and she told me it was pretty bad.  I feel for ya, really I do.

[alia]

Ah, I do not think it is fair to criticize*  Fairywitch because of her spelling/grammar mistakes because I think she is German, and therefore not a native English speaker.

Having said that, her "attack" was rather amusing, to say the least. I doubt she will be back, but just in case she does, here's my answer to her question number 2.

2. How many of you (thanks for the publicity btw), would sign up with your real username instead of some bogus nick? I don't use any other name than this one and I haven't in 6 years that I've been playing and creating. I don't hide behind different usernames. Why do you?

Yadda yadda yadda...

Well, the simple reason for using this nickname here is the fact that I'd get kicked out of many forums, because I have also posted here. Take the Simbella forum, for example, where Bella bans people solely by association. If I logged in here by my Simbella username, it would probably be taken as a proof that I am a filesharer. I haven't shared anything I got from Simbella, nor have I downloaded any of their waffle store gifts or anything else from SFV/the booty. It wouldn't matter, however, since I'd be guilty by association, and would get banned for 100 years.

So that's why I use a different name here from the one I use at Simbella. And I'm actually more comfortable with the name Alia/SunSun than the others I have used.

*Or is it criticise? Argh! Damn you! Now I'm all confused.

[Captain Feathersword]

And don't even talk about names. Can't even say Eleanore down here it sounds like "Eliner"

The English pronounce Eleanor as Ellen-uh (it's hard trying to be phonetic for people from other countries).

[MizzKitty]

Ugghhh... I want to join the discussion, but I can't seem to find an angle where I fit in  :lol:

I am not a native speaker. I'm Scandinavian - Danish, to be more exact - if you didn't know. I have never in my life been to any part of America. I have, however, been to England and Wales, and although I did find the dialects (especially in Wales) to be peculiar, it didn't take me too long to adopt it for the duration of my stay. I do that. Apparently I'm good that way with languages. I love the way they say wha' instead of what most places I've been in England.  :lol:

Let me twist this my way.

Denmark is actually very small (about 5 mio residents), but where I'm originally from is... well, the redneck area of our country. There they practice the art of speaking while limiting the amount of facial muscles used as much as possible. I swear, some of them barely open their mouth. And on top of that they love twisting the words (e.g. a word that should be pronounced mah-ied using English pronounciation rules is pronounced as a sharp and fast moi). It took me a while to rid myself of the worst of that.

As a remedy I have only been dating males from clear across the country and I moved to an area with a much prettier almost sing-song dialect. Incidentally this is also the birth town of Hans Christian Andersen. I know, that fact had no home anywhere in this post.  :wink:

And I pretty much speak the queen's Danish by now (yes, we have a queen too, nya nya). Well, I don't really, because our queen's dialect is silly. But I speak a pretty clean version of Danish. One that is understandable for all... that understand Danish.  :lol:

[missangelica]

The English pronounce Eleanor as Ellen-uh (it's hard trying to be phonetic for people from other countries).

That reminds me of the english lady on Shear Genius who kept on screaming, "HAAAY-UH"  There is a friggin' "r" on hair!  Friggin' people..  If you're not french you can't get away with not pronouncing the word all the way through unless it's slang.  It sounds so lazy.

ETA:  Typically I don't mind and like English accents but this girl has a more "commoner" accent that turns me off.

[RedLove]

I'm not sure what you mean by "Queen's English" coz like NO-ONE talks like the Queen. I mean it. That's RP ("Received Pronunciation") and whilst many people speak modified RP (I guess I do a lot of the time) nobody actually speaks proper RP like the Queen. So whatever this "Queen's English" is, it's a load of bollocks. ^^

Nii, what IS a redneck? I'm not sure, and I don't understand the term of speaking like one--how do you communicate?

Oh and bloody hell, I know I talk quickly 'n' all, but for goddess's sakes people-in-America, please talk slow enough for me to undersand you!!!! Bloody hell! The only person I'm aware of who doesn't speak 100-words-a-minute is George-Bloody-Bush, and I don't give a toss what he's saying (except to make fun of it, har har)...

God you can't even describe redneck. BUT YOU CAN WATCH IT! Redneck at its worst...or best. Not sure which

[Doursim]

I don't think anyone caught that this is not a difference between UK spelling and American spelling. Practice and Practise are different WORDS.  They mean different things.

Practice:  to preform work repeatedly as to become proficient.

Practise:  To take advantage of someone

She used a word, it was just the WRONG one.

She may be practising though

[missangelica]

Google Jeff Foxworthy and Blue Collar Comedy tour and you'll get your fill on red neck. x_x

[RedLove]

Oh god. I wanna kill myself. They made us watch that on friday because exams were over.