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LilKim (355 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 09:33 PM Original message |
Everytime I hear a Brit talk about their 'proper' English I feel like |
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RagingInMiami (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. That would be "skull" in proper English |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. You want to sink their boat? |
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Bouncy Ball (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
3. I know a fast way to get rid of people like that. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 09:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I've tried it on my mum |
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Zuni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 09:39 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Bloody 'ell |
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KurtNYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 10:20 AM Response to Reply #3 |
27. And as they start to run say "cheerio" |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
4. Now now, LilKim, |
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qnr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
7. Just tell them since they're talking to you here, they should be speaking |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
8. I just think... |
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FuzzySlippers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 09:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Well, who doesn't? |
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Huckebein the Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 10:22 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Don't we all ? |
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NV Whino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
10. If you want to hear what proper English sounds like, |
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imenja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
11. they are full of themselves |
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moggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 11:59 AM Response to Reply #11 |
29. Most of us don't care about the empire any more |
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mr blur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 01:15 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. True, nobody gives a fuck about the empire. |
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imenja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 01:50 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. considering we do such a lousy job of it |
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Moms Baby Democrat (182 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
12. Aweyanbileyerheid! n/t |
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ronnykmarshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 10:24 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Arrrrrr! |
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Moms Baby Democrat (182 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 10:30 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Silly Ronny, Pirates are for The Carribean |
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RevolutionaryActs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-05 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
14. I like they way they talk. |
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tjwmason (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 05:47 AM Response to Original message |
17. I better go and hide then.... |
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asthmaticeog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 08:00 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I was just going to post something about |
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TyeDye75 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 08:26 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Your avin a turkish aint ya? |
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tjwmason (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 09:58 AM Response to Reply #18 |
25. Many linguists think that it was invented as a criminal code |
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Bertha Venation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 08:07 AM Response to Original message |
19. Must just be your particular Brit, lilKim. |
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TyeDye75 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 08:25 AM Response to Original message |
20. I love the differences between American English |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
22. Heh, that just makes me want to talk in a 'proper' English accent |
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JimmyJazz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
23. What is your point? |
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William Bloode (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
24. I enjoy my trips to the UK, |
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Hand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 11:49 AM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Hmm... |
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fujiyama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
26. Bloody Hell |
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Dorian Gray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
30. Hah! |
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Hand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 01:10 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Mancunian English is strange, all right. |
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moggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 05:14 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. That works both ways |
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Hand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 10:57 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Heh heh... |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
34. I'll hand this to the Brits, though |
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Hand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 10:58 PM Response to Reply #34 |
38. I'll be damned! |
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Vladimir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
36. I can't stand a 'proper' British accent either |
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LilKim (355 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 11:35 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. The accent has nothing to do with it |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 11:59 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Well... |
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Susang (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-05 11:42 PM Response to Original message |
40. So I guess you didn't bother to read this bestseller |
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