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@Shuma - 'Beds' is short for Bedfordshire.

halonachos wrote:So we have this decided then.

1) England is no longer an empire.
2) The difference between England, Great Britain, and nited Kingdom is a bit confusing(get your stuff together you lot).
3) America is not a part of England/GB/UK.
4) Americans can't spell.
5) The British have bad teeth.
6) Sierra Leone gives you AIDS.
7) North Carolina is a bit off.

I think you've got it right there son. The sum total of Dakka's wisdom...

Right, I'm going to settle this for once and all by reference to an unbiased third party opion, Japan.

The Japanese word for Britain is Igirisu meaning English.

The formal Japanese word for the United Kingdom is Eikoku, which means "Excellent Country".

The Japanese word for America is Amerika.

The formal Japanese word for the USA is Beikoku, which means "Rice Country".

Arctik_Firangi wrote:Screw Tim Horton's coffee, I drink donuts and eat Canadians.

Arctic Firangi is hardcore.


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Kilkrazy wrote:Right, I'm going to settle this for once and all by reference to an unbiased third party opion, Japan.

The Japanese word for Britain is Igirisu meaning English.

The formal Japanese word for the United Kingdom is Eikoku, which means "Excellent Country".

The Japanese word for America is Amerika.

The formal Japanese word for the USA is Beikoku, which means "Rice Country".

Evidently the Japanese fellow who named the USA visited Louisiana. Now that I think about it, he probably saw a gator and said "my that lizard has big teeth. You ever wonder what it would be like to see a lizard with big teeth attack Tokyo?" And a legend is born.

halonachos wrote:And from the red/white/blue corner we have shuma, throwing in a low blow to whatwhat's mohammed ali style and interrupting the match between the UK and England.

Stokle, I live in VB and I'm sorry to say that we think anything outside the OBX in NC is hick central. Sorry, but you're just too southern for us.

I'm not sure what VB is.... But see, I go towards the beach and hit all those coastal/sandhills towns and think that they're so raggedy, like, Deliverance level raggedy, but they probably seem a lot worse than they actually are. The area from Raleigh to Winson Salem has it's share of illiterate red necks, for sure, there's no denying that, but we've also got like >20 universities and colleges, in addition to lord knows how many technical or vocational schools. Research Triangle Park is a serious hub of technological and scientific knowledge and Greensboro is home to a number of HQ's for large global companies. NC gets a bad rep based on our worst citizens, but we're not all bad....

It's easy to think that people from a certain place are all slowed, but you're almost never right. This whole thread would be good to remember that.

Edit - I get it, Virginia Beach. So, wait a second, you're in southern VA, but central NC is TOO southern? LOL. I'd hate to hear what you think about Georgia!

Im confused.....

Hummmmm a British/American strife....

Let's sit here eating weird food, waiting for them to slaughter each others, and finally, we, Frenchmen, will conquer Dakka! Mouahahahah

Catyrpelius wrote:My spelling is perfectly acceptable given my chosen profession.

If you dont like the way we spell, go eat a crumpit or something.

Raises eyebrow. If this is intentional or not, I rest my case.

Why is everyone taking shots at British dentistry? This was an issue of spelling- I'm quite curious how a country that has a river called the 'Tim's' but spelled the Thames running through their country has any room to criticize. America may be rude, gruff and practical, but we made our language fit! We spell armor wrong too, according to 'u'.

As has been pointed out before, grammar and spelling are transitory rule sets. The British, United Kingdomians, Londoners or English like to play Third Edition English, an the American, Colonial, Rebels, like to play Fourth Edition. Teenagers like to play Fifth Edition, which everyone else can see is riddled with flaws, typos, contradictory rules and loopholes, but they love the powergaming potential of reducing sentences into a series of letters.

Our schools no longer produce students that play the edition we were brought up with, so our playerbase will gradually die out and then few will remember our edition as anything more than an unwieldy relic. In Fourth Edition American English, we call that an extended metaphor.

Gitzbitah wrote:Why is everyone taking shots at British dentistry? This was an issue of spelling- I'm quite curious how a country that has a river called the 'Tim's' but spelled the Thames running through their country has any room to criticize. America may be rude, gruff and practical, but we made our language fit! We spell armor wrong too, according to 'u'.

As has been pointed out before, grammar and spelling are transitory rule sets. The British, United Kingdomians, Londoners or English like to play Third Edition English, an the American, Colonial, Rebels, like to play Fourth Edition. Teenagers like to play Fifth Edition, which everyone else can see is riddled with flaws, typos, contradictory rules and loopholes, but they love the powergaming potential of reducing sentences into a series of letters.

Our schools no longer produce students that play the edition we were brought up with, so our playerbase will gradually die out and then few will remember our edition as anything more than an unwieldy relic. In Fourth Edition American English, we call that an extended metaphor.

Awesome!

You really want to play with someone's mind-have an adult speak 5th ed to a teenager. THEY FREAAAK OUUUUTTT!

Hyenajoe wrote:Hummmmm a British/American strife....

As a Frenchman, I will do the honorable thing and surrender immediately. Vive La France!

Fixed that for you, mon petit pamplemousse!

Albatross wrote:

Hyenajoe wrote:Hummmmm a British/American strife....

As a Frenchman, I will do the honorable thing and surrender immediately. Vive La France!

Fixed that for you, mon petit pamplemousse!

Careful, he might sunburn his armpits.

Albatross wrote:

Hyenajoe wrote:Hummmmm a British/American strife....

As a Frenchman, I will do the honorable thing and surrender immediately. Vive La France!

Fixed that for you, mon petit pamplemousse!

Merci mon canard!

Come on, we're surrending only once per century...or perhaps twice, it depends on the century...but we're so irritating that no foreign forces ever stay on our ground!

C'est ça la France!

We love you chaps really.


You know that, right?

Albatross wrote:We love you chaps really.


You know that, right?

The americans or the french?

VB= Virginia Beach, guess what state that place is in...

Also, this isn't a fight between America and England its a fight bewtween England and the United Kingdom. Its like its 1642 all over again here in dakka.

Would just like to say that when they talk about the Imperium, what they mean to say is the British Imperium...

halonachos wrote:

Albatross wrote:We love you chaps really.


You know that, right?

The americans or the french?

The French. We still haven't forgiven you for flying the nest.

We didn't fly the nest, we burnt the mother to the ground.

Besides, you know the french egged us on.

France: Come on, you know you want to.
Colonies: Maybe a little.
France: DO IT, DO IT, DO IT!
Colonies: Alright, but you should help us.
France: What? Help you move, sorry we don't have a truck.

Frazzled wrote:

halonachos wrote:So we have this decided then.

1) England is no longer an empire.
2) The difference between England, Great Britain, and nited Kingdom is a bit confusing(get your stuff together you lot).
3) America is not a part of England/GB/UK.
4) Americans can't spell.
5) The British have bad teeth.
6) Sierra Leone gives you AIDS.
7) North Carolina is a bit off.

I think you've got it right there son. The sum total of Dakka's wisdom...

"Wisdom" is one word for it...

If nothing else, at least we have established that

NORKALINA IS BEST KALINA!!

Hyenajoe wrote:Hummmmm a British/American strife....

Let's sit here eating weird food, waiting for them to slaughter each others, and finally, we, Frenchmen, will conquer Dakka! Mouahahahah

Not if we Canadians have anything to say aboot that! We will ride gloriously on our polar bears and beat you back with our hockey sticks well still shotgunning beer and yelling politeness all the while You hosers!

Tazz Azrael wrote:

Hyenajoe wrote:Hummmmm a British/American strife....

Let's sit here eating weird food, waiting for them to slaughter each others, and finally, we, Frenchmen, will conquer Dakka! Mouahahahah

Not if we Canadians have anything to say aboot that! We will ride gloriously on our polar bears and beat you back with our hockey sticks well still shotgunning beer and yelling politeness all the while You hosers!

youbedead wrote:

Tazz Azrael wrote:

Hyenajoe wrote:Hummmmm a British/American strife....

Let's sit here eating weird food, waiting for them to slaughter each others, and finally, we, Frenchmen, will conquer Dakka! Mouahahahah

Not if we Canadians have anything to say aboot that! We will ride gloriously on our polar bears and beat you back with our hockey sticks well still shotgunning beer and yelling politeness all the while You hosers!

You my good sir are my new favorite person ever if i had cookies in this house i would send them via mail to you right now, postage payed and everything

I aim to please

So it seems the animals have overtaken the canadian armed forces. That is incredibly unfortunate as they are disrupting our maple syrup supply.

DON'T WORRY CANADA, WE WILL AVENGE YOU!

Oh come on. I think the English language is great. Especially when used by the English.

Take a sentence like "Monica has three hares"

"Mornicer as free aias". Is how my friend Pete would pronounce it "an e's from London". I love speaking to him drunk on the phone. Sometimes I think he is just making noises.

I don't know if the English have a spelling problem or a pronunciation problem, because the certainly don't speak the way things are spelled. Don't get me started on the Scots.

Lory= truck

Rubbers= Erasers

Football= Soccer

It's awesome!

pip, pip, cheerio lads.

Why do Americans have this mad obsession with pronouncing things the same as you spell them?

Fifty wrote:Why do Americans have this mad obsession with pronouncing things the same as you spell them?

Because thats how written somatic languages should work.

Nah, it is way more fun the British way.