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« on: March 30, 2015, 02:33:40 PM »


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« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2015, 02:39:22 PM »
How else would I show that I am superior to the working class?
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« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2015, 02:41:17 PM »
They're annoying blokes now aren't they?
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« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2015, 02:50:38 PM »
« Edited: March 30, 2015, 03:06:45 PM by CrabCake »
Blimey guv'nor! Would you Adam and Eve the dodgy yank wankers that know their onions about ol' Blighty? Feckin bloody daft cows the bleedin' lot of em. Gobsmacking tossers have lost the plot, they make me chunder and head to Bedfordshire.

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« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2015, 02:53:14 PM »
I do creative writing in British English, have no memory of why I started, and am too used to it to stop, so I can't really vote HP, but I get why it's unsavory.
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« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2015, 02:56:13 PM »
Heinous, I enjoyed when Xahar would go around correcting Americans doing just this.
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« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2015, 03:13:58 PM »
FFs, because I am one. I've been trying to not do it so much in social contexts, and I've thought about not doing it anymore in general, but it's not like it really makes a difference.
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« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2015, 03:15:26 PM »
Yeah, that's pretty awful.
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« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2015, 03:20:47 PM »
bloody annoying
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« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2015, 03:23:47 PM »
As someone who comes from a country where the language is influenced by British English, a bit strange. Though I generally prefer it Tongue
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« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2015, 03:27:23 PM »
who gives a sht
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« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2015, 03:28:17 PM »
I find it crimping lint-roller.  It really glasses me off, chestnuts.
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« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2015, 03:31:41 PM »

Ironic from a Euro writing in American English.
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« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2015, 04:17:00 PM »

Wouldn't it be more ironic if I was writing in British English?

Anyway, American English is just better.
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« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2015, 04:17:53 PM »
As with so many things dicussed on this board, Hobo Orgy Guy and Blondie speaks to this issue:

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BushOK: (on video monitor) Not at all, your honour.  I know Inks only says these awful things because he cares.  He wants to get me to change, though I think he's going about it the wrong way.  Can we move on?  I'm done with this topic.

Can we talk about how I called you "Your honour", because they use British spellings here in Kenya, and I'm a Kenyan now?

Judge: Yes, I'm aware of this novel attempt to prove that you've been planning a move to Kenya for some time now by using British spellings in your sworn statement.  I noticed the "honour", "colour", and "behaviour".  I even noticed the questionable placements of "U"s in some cases.  Mr. Bushie, I don't think they spell "orange" "o-u-r-a-n-g-e" in Kenya.

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« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2015, 04:20:15 PM »
What accent do you speak English with Antonio (and the other continentals)?

Whenever I meet apparent Muricans in uni, I always ask where in America they are from; only to normally be greeted with 'Luxembourg' or some other euro country.
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« Reply #16 on: March 30, 2015, 04:28:32 PM »
Quote from: Antonio V on March 30, 2015, 04:17:00 PM

Wouldn't it be more ironic if I was writing in British English?


No, then you would be using the version from your own continent.
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« Reply #17 on: March 30, 2015, 04:31:04 PM »
bizarre and annoying affectation. but using a few words like mate and chav and stuff like that is okay
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« Reply #18 on: March 30, 2015, 04:35:10 PM »
No chav is the worst
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« Reply #19 on: March 30, 2015, 04:38:30 PM »
The absence of bloody in American slang is a bloody shame.
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« Reply #20 on: March 30, 2015, 04:40:41 PM »
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« Reply #21 on: March 30, 2015, 04:54:24 PM »
Quote from: Charlotte Hebdo on March 30, 2015, 04:28:32 PM
Quote from: Antonio V on March 30, 2015, 04:17:00 PM

Wouldn't it be more ironic if I was writing in British English?


No, then you would be using the version from your own continent.

Britain is, for all intents and purposes, not part of Europe.
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« Reply #22 on: March 30, 2015, 04:56:00 PM »
Quote from: CrabCake on March 30, 2015, 04:20:15 PM
What accent do you speak English with Antonio (and the other continentals)?

Definitely American, with a few exceptions.
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« Reply #23 on: March 30, 2015, 05:19:19 PM »


Lovecraft approves
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« Reply #24 on: March 30, 2015, 05:21:23 PM »
I am one, and was before i moved here. I'm not sure why I started. Colour just looks like a closer representation of the word than color. If that makes me an insufferable twat, so be it. I'd rather be that than an intolerant dick.

In conclusion, suck my Oxford comma.
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