English.. Yeah.. Strange thing..

"Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh" (andymcbradleigh)
05/28/2015 at 16:34 • Filed to: None

I’ve just been in a Skype meeting with an Aussie, a brit, some girl from Canada and me.. Oh how we LOVE the English language... I could understand THEM.. no worries there.. they understood me as well.. but holy crap on a biscuit, we spent more time debating what the correct word and/or pronunciation was than the thing we actually were supposed to talk about.

Gosh darn foreigners better learn english right :P Bloody hell..

DISCUSSION (37)

For Sweden > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 16:36

Pro-tip in these discussions: the Canadian is never right.

Nibby > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 16:38

TABARNAK! LEARN TO SPEAK CANADIAN!

ceanderson920 > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 16:39

I was literally just thinking about how Aussies and Brits sound similar but very different at the same time. Same thing with Canadians and Americans. The accent is similar (depending how far south the American is from).

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > For Sweden
05/28/2015 at 16:39

You’re probably right, but I dare say the same thing could be said if he/she was an US American :P

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 16:40

Bloody Nora...

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Nibby
05/28/2015 at 16:40

Tabarnak? So like fuck? but in French Canadian?

For Sweden > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 16:40

Well, you just have to say the American is right because the American is heavily armed.

The Canadian is also heavily armed, but they will first apologize for shooting you, giving you time to run away.

Nibby > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 16:41

Watch your mouth, eh.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > ceanderson920
05/28/2015 at 16:42

It’s really funny to observe this from an outside view. I KNOW I don’t sound British or Aussie, or. or.. yeah you get the picture.. but people from Britain claim I sound ‘murican.. people from the US.. yeah, you guessed it “you sound British” and so on.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
05/28/2015 at 16:43

The rozzers commin’ ?

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > For Sweden
05/28/2015 at 16:44

True :P

I just wish I could have ONE SINGLE BLOODY “meeting” without it ending in a huge debate over the words trunk/boot and such :P

jmedarts > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 16:45

Speaking? typing is bad enough! as in the “colour scheme of your mould programme”

&^%$#!

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Nibby
05/28/2015 at 16:45

Soorry :P But eh? is more Minnesota than Canada though isn’t it? Not in Stereotype, but real life.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > jmedarts
05/28/2015 at 16:47

Hehe, true.. I try my best to type like someone from Britain, but since I learned both US and UK English at school I tend to cock it up.

ttyymmnn > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 16:47

If only Esperanto had caught on.

“The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language”

-George Bernard Shaw (attr.)

ceanderson920 > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 16:48

The British may have invented the language but the Americans perfected it!

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > ceanderson920
05/28/2015 at 16:50

The Americans probably perfected the spelling, no so sure about pronunciation though :P That said... Why spell it Leicester? When we all know it’s Lester. :P

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > ttyymmnn
05/28/2015 at 16:52

Mr. Shaw was right, the problem with Esperanto though is that they never really agreed upon a common system, so you ended up with schisms. Nah.. Let’s just all learn Scandinavian, much easier.

ceanderson920 > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 16:53

Exactly!

Tohru > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 16:54

The Canadian is wrong because they’re Ned Flanders. The Brit is wrong because they lost the Revolutionary War. The Aussies get a pass because they’re too busy trying to survive drop bear attacks and poisonous snakes in their dinner to learn anything besides prison English.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Tohru
05/28/2015 at 16:58

Poisonous snakes? Holy CRAP man.. what world do you live on?

(Yes, I DO know there are snakes that are poisonous.. but you don’t see that many of the Rhabdophis do you?) :P

Ash78, voting early and often > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 17:01

If you want to watch British pedants fight, start talking about how to say Cirencester.

Tohru > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 17:02

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Let’s see, 6 of the top 10 most poisonous snakes are in ‘Straya. Cheers, cunt :D

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Tohru
05/28/2015 at 17:07

I was just having a bit of fun with the fact that most people talk about poisonous snakes, when they really mean venomous :)

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Ash78, voting early and often
05/28/2015 at 17:07

How the FUCK do you say that though? Sister? Sairensester?

Tohru > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 17:14

Kinja'd!!!

PRETTY GODDAMN SURE IF YOU ATE A VENOMOUS SNAKE THAT MOTHERFUCKER WOULD POISON YOUR ASS TO DEATH.

YOU PEDANTIC TWATWAFFLE.

Ash78, voting early and often > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 17:15

Usually “Siren-cester” (phonetic) today, but the old guard fights for “Sissister.” Hope you don’t lisp!

Cester and Chester are both common and pretty well delineate the line of Norman influence. Cesters are French-influenced and mostly southern, chesters are mostly old English in the Midlands, North, and West.

Something like that. The Brits have more diversity in English than all of North America.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Tohru
05/28/2015 at 17:18

:P If you don’t have an ulcer or something you CAN ingest venom and it won’t hurt you :)

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Ash78, voting early and often
05/28/2015 at 17:23

siren-cester was what I meant by sairensester :P

I don’t lisp.. hehe

When it comes to names of places I usually ask if I’m not sure. But by gods the brits have some strange ones..

Grosvenor Street?

Pall Mall?

desertdog5051 > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 17:33

There are reasons. Worcestershire Sauce (worst-e- shir) got its name from an obscure English King who, when presented it for the first time said, “What’s this here sauce”?

So now you know the origin. :)

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > desertdog5051
05/28/2015 at 17:35

Hehehe.. Oh my.. :) Thanks mate.. I’m having a hard time breathing here :)

Tohru > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/28/2015 at 18:05

Kinja'd!!!