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Years ago,I first heard Clarke Kent say"Gee Lois,that's just Swell" Fucking Swell???
Now I'm hearing"TTYL" alot,which apparently means(talk to you later)
Is there anything else that needs getting a grip of in Mooksville,linguistically??
The cheap'Awesome'not withstanding.
Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote:
That's not curious,that's downright mysterious Fradds.
Edit: I know,I know...
Double edit: Imagine Tony Pullis's on the pull..
The tactically astute Doctor Love Long Throw giving it..
"Hump the fucker up to Billy Whitehurst and the job is R.."
Tony Pulis is a love machine, I'll have you know. He knows how to get the job done. Not pretty, but fucking effective. "Work 'aaard" is his motto. Make of that what you will.
Besides, I thought this was a regional dialect-inflected thread about "mucky" Americanisms. Y'know, like they way they are incapable of saying the word "twat".
It always comes out "twort", like how you'd imagine Her Maj saying it.
Cretins.
Cretin is one of my favourites.
My mate,is known as 'Seggsy' by all an sundry,barr his mother.
She calls him 'Cretin'
He's 39
You don't even have to be there to appreciate that.
I know those yanky mooks pinch bits and bats but I've yet to hear the bastardised "Twort"
In the interests of fairness.I'll level with you and tell you what really tickles me...
When those Italian Americans say "biscwitts"
The way they say Iraq gets on my tits...
as in 'EYERACK'....
Bombing the fuck out of a place you can't pronounce...
c___s..
Burt Reynolds wrote: The way they say Iraq gets on my tits...
as in 'EYERACK'....
Bombing the fuck out of a place you can't pronounce...
c___s..
"TWORTS", surely?
Nevermind that convenient indiscretion Burt... Dem same Yanky doodle dandy punks just like,totally call Vietnam a draw..Gimme a break.
Have you heard dem sons a bitches say"Oregano?"
That's the kinda shit I'm alluding to..
"Tuna" massacred as "Toooona".
"Garage" massacred as "Garasche".
"Boot" massacred as "Trunk"
Yes, lots of massacring going on.
Anything this man says:
Ally wrote: "Tuna" massacred as "Toooona".
"Garage" massacred as "Garasche".
There's a bloke I know that pronounces it like that 
In a linguistics class that I had to take, the old cassette we listened to in class had a guy with an American accent speaking some stuff.
One pronunciation that made me scratch my head was the pronunciation of the word 'measure'. He pronounced it exactly like 'major'.
Sort of like 'may-jer' (I can't describe it well.)
I've looked the word up in my electronic dictionary, and in one of the English-Japanese dictionaries, it noted that said pronunciation is an American regionalism.
Are there really regions in the US that have people saying 'measure' like 'major'?
All accents outside the home counties are inpenetrable to outsiders. What the hell is 'mooky' for starters?
Yer all just jealous that people outside our country can actually understand us when we speak
leather_girl wrote: In a linguistics class that I had to take, the old cassette we listened to in class had a guy with an American accent speaking some stuff.
One pronunciation that made me scratch my head was the pronunciation of the word 'measure'. He pronounced it exactly like 'major'.
Sort of like 'may-jer' (I can't describe it well.)
I've looked the word up in my electronic dictionary, and in one of the English-Japanese dictionaries, it noted that said pronunciation is an American regionalism.
Are there really regions in the US that have people saying 'measure' like 'major'?
the midwest on down through the south
EdelBrock wrote: Yer all just jealous that people outside our country can actually understand us when we speak
Eh?
Have you ever actually left your country to test that theory? 
Or even left your state?
He's just upset because his country has only managed to come up with endless variations of "slightly brain damaged with varying degrees of intoxication and genetic redundancy", instead of the miriad of fabulous accents the British Isles have cooked up.
As for clarity...there's a few accents from the arse end of the other bit of Ireland that could baffle anyone from more than 2 miles down the road from their home. Geordies can be tricky depending on just how pissed they are, the same with some Scots (particularly from the fair city of Glassgow). However, last night I spoke to a Stokie, and as far as I could tell, his accent was Martian (actual native Martian, not Hungarian)......I swear I could understand Fradley quite well up until a certain blood alcohol level, and I MUST have spoken with many others, but me and this fella could NOT communicate, very very strange indeed, especially since I had me posh phone voice on, the one with "you" and "the" instead of "Y'" and "'a'".
eg....." I shall see you in the pub in ten minutes"...."Al c y' inna bar in ten"
Doctor? wrote: He's just upset because his country has only managed to come up with endless variations of "slightly brain damaged with varying degrees of intoxication and genetic redundancy"
Their accents seem to be dependant on skin colour too.
Their black blokes never sound like their white blokes, do they?
True dat. :\ohwell:
leather_girl wrote: Are there really regions in the US that have people saying 'measure' like 'major'?
No.
that can't pronounce acronyms properly either
nato has a t in it (unless there is a special us version with the acronym naydo?)
chongotronic wrote:
leather_girl wrote: In a linguistics class that I had to take, the old cassette we listened to in class had a guy with an American accent speaking some stuff.
One pronunciation that made me scratch my head was the pronunciation of the word 'measure'. He pronounced it exactly like 'major'.
Sort of like 'may-jer' (I can't describe it well.)
I've looked the word up in my electronic dictionary, and in one of the English-Japanese dictionaries, it noted that said pronunciation is an American regionalism.
Are there really regions in the US that have people saying 'measure' like 'major'?
the midwest on down through the south
interesting, since I've lived in Texas and Mississippi, and spent time working in Louisiana and Alabama...I've never once heard the word measure pronounced like major in "the south"...
El Jarvo wrote:
EdelBrock wrote: Yer all just jealous that people outside our country can actually understand us when we speak
Eh?
Have you ever actually left your country to test that theory?
Or even left your state?
Yah.. don't forget he's been to EYERACK, and been chillin' wiv' da 'E-mums'..
Burt Reynolds wrote:
El Jarvo wrote:
EdelBrock wrote: Yer all just jealous that people outside our country can actually understand us when we speak
Eh?
Have you ever actually left your country to test that theory?
Or even left your state?
Yah.. don't forget he's been to EYERACK, and been chillin' wiv' da 'E-mums'..
Ireland, Kuwait, Thailand, S. Korea, Japan, Bali, Mexico, Canada (if that even counts) and of course, eyerack.
Lived in 6 states and stayed for a month or so in at least 5 others.
Not saying I'm the most traveled around these parts, but I have not stayed in one place either.
EdelBrock wrote:
Burt Reynolds wrote:
El Jarvo wrote:
EdelBrock wrote: Yer all just jealous that people outside our country can actually understand us when we speak
Eh?
Have you ever actually left your country to test that theory?
Or even left your state?
Yah.. don't forget he's been to EYERACK, and been chillin' wiv' da 'E-mums'..
Ireland, Kuwait, Thailand, S. Korea, Japan, Bali, Mexico, Canada (if that even counts) and of course, eyerack.
Lived in 6 states and stayed for a month or so in at least 5 others.
what went wrong?
Burt Reynolds wrote:
EdelBrock wrote:
Burt Reynolds wrote:
El Jarvo wrote:
EdelBrock wrote: Yer all just jealous that people outside our country can actually understand us when we speak
Eh?
Have you ever actually left your country to test that theory?
Or even left your state?
Yah.. don't forget he's been to EYERACK, and been chillin' wiv' da 'E-mums'..
Ireland, Kuwait, Thailand, S. Korea, Japan, Bali, Mexico, Canada (if that even counts) and of course, eyerack.
Lived in 6 states and stayed for a month or so in at least 5 others.
what went wrong?
Funny part is that everywhere I went, people said I had no accent (my best guess is that I'm from California, so talk like all dem movie folk, which people are accustomed to).
As for ya Brits, outside of Britian or possibly Europe, nobody can bloody well understand ya...
