Ok....I'm just gonna put it out there: I'm not an American.

I'm pure bred English, listen to BBC radio 4, think the bristish empire is amazing, talk posh, love politics and wank over the yankee accent.

so this got me thinking about all the differences in our cultures, such as how we pronounce/spell things differently yet our language stems from the same place *coughmycountrycough*

For example, I've just spent some time in the states and one of the weirdest things was discovering the 'peanut butter and jelly sandwich'. - this initially sounds DISGUSTING since your jelly is my jam and my jelly is your jello. I was thinking wtf do you do? get a slice of bread and spread peanut butter over it then put it in the fridge to set?!!?

Another thing I did was attend a spelling B for a friends younger sister....the word 'centre' came up. She spelt the word C - E - N - T - E - R I kept quiet...looking mildly confused and somewhat disappointed in the fucker, this then shortly turned to OUTRAGE when she got the spelling CORRECT. centre people! we invented this language!!

Your opinions? any other cute/weird differences you spot?

simple
americans are the trash of the UK ever since we came here on the mayflower. the majority of the people that came where poor

When you said that you "wank over the yankee accent," it sounds like you masturbate when you hear people speak with an American accent.

There's a neat little difference for you.

I like how he put American in caps


AMERICAN, fear us

As senseless as it sounds..

But it's true if you take a look at it. Except that "trash" thing.

Yes.. he has a point there.... that is a little... for-lack-of-a-better-word "odd"

we no nedd ur fansy spelings or mispronounciated words, tawk liek n emerican

The English language is one of the most complicated languages in the world, mainly because it violates it's own rules so much. The word is pronounced CENT-"ERR," and not CENT-"REE." Therefore, it should be spelled with the e before the r. Basically we started spelling it differently because it makes more sense. Get your head out of your pompous British ass and admit that I'm right.

American spell colours as colors and favourite as favorite. there are a few others as well

It's complicated only because it violates on those "own rules".
It's funny to see how many unnecessary words do English language need.
I could say all that with half less words in my language.
It's quite easy language to learn, but there are several things that some foreign people just can't understand like. For example tenses? How many of you use them all?

Ok, that was kinda off topic.

http://www.effingpot.com/

American - buns:


British - buns:

I have always known the spellings are different In America and England. I guess I learned a lot back when the Spice Girls were huge and I was like 7..lol

also how they say "Flats" instead of Apartments..thats interesting I think...

And the driving situation over in the UK..that has always amused me as well..driving on the other side of the road and whanot...

Asia buns - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantou

Americans slaughterd the english language. FACT. discussion over

there we go!

your an idiot. The english spoken in the UK is the orginal anything diffrent is wrong

That is purely your opinion. Originality doesn't mean it's better. Give me one solid fact that makes it better than my version.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=s8MDNFaGfT4

This sums up the sandwich soloution

Funnyman2 you give on good reason as to why yours is better than our version?

WHAT THE FLYING FUCK
It says Welcome / Howdy

WE DONT FUCKING SAY HOWDY

It isn't wrong. It's just American English. That's like saying any movie based on a book is "wrong" because the book was the original. It makes no sense.

ok the people that came over to america were fucking poor. what kind of speech did the poor people use?

now go listen to what a hoodloom says and compare it with an educated man. see the diffrence? same thing

the rich spoke great english because they were high class, the poor played with ther balls all day and spoke in slang and slurred their words together and drank booze. watch My Fair Lady and youll get an idea of it



one word

Eragon

SPEAK AMERICAN

Is that before or after you get shot?

I LOVE America

Aww now look what a wonderful mess I've made

Here we are, conflicting smosh fans - when all I really wanted to know was a few quirky differences between our brothering nations.

Oh and.....I'm a lady thank you

I speak American, boy... and don't 'cha forget it. [/"Yankee" Accent]
This is the most moronic god damn thread. So go ahead and keep acting like the "English" language is somehow unique and not developed from Germanic, Romantic, Greek, and Latin based languages and words.

dude when ur in america u speak fucking english lol all we did with ur words was to the root base that makes up da meaning of da word and attached some letters to it. we also have orthodontists and dentists so we dont horriable nasty teeth like some of u do over there lol we also have slang which take an already altertered word and makes it even shorter for example what is wat and you is u and because is just cuz and crunk is now in our dictionary dat means a crazy drunk.

Fuckin' PWNT

WHO CARES IT'S JUST WORDS
God damn, don't make such a big deal out of it.

I make bowel movements that are more coherent than that gibberish.

We use a fucked up blend of American and British English in New Zealand.

I personally think that neither are wrong, just different. British English tends to have more unnecessary vowels.

aw fuck u i you obvioulsy havent taken a prober english class which informs the student of the origin of an english word and ur vocabulary just must really suck ass you dip shit

FAIL!

Anywhere you go there will be some form of slang.
Dumbass.

Crunk in dictionary? is gullable aswell?

The fact you abbrieviated words like what, because and you, makes you even more stupid... It's plainly obvious to abbrieviate them words the way you did.
You missed one though.
That = dat. Am i gangster.. no wait G now i can abbrieviate?

hahaha fuck this is so not how this thread was intended.....

you guys are wound pretty tight huh? all I imagined was that we'd all relax and give pause for thought about a few little minor details that make us unique in our own right when we're pretty similar as fuck anyway.

Not to slate each other saying on whos right or wrong, come on are we running the special olympics? I dont care about how it all started or who has bad teeth or which country practices incest in their southern states

man those peanut butter and jelly sandwiches got it baaaaad

we perfected it.

I am going to edit that
Because you obviously don't know english considering what you just typed.
You are a dumbass, you say we don't know english? YOU don't know english.

You insulting my intelligence is like Kevin Federline calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.

LMAO!
Brilliance ^^

There's nothing wrong with peanut butter & jelly. Pick on the hotdogs and hamburgers instead.

Stephen Hawking isn't an idiot, he's a robot.

indeed, neither are wrong.


oh please.

u thinking dat ur intelligent just goes do prove dat u truely are a dumb ass

How about you type like a fucking human being, and then we'll take your opinion into consideration.

I know you can't ban people for stupidity, but can you make an exception just this once?

Corrected.
Stop posting telling people they're stupid.
Unless you learn how to spell properly first.

Bet your a chav.
Mc devvo m888

honey......they might not know what a chav is

Is that a strictly british thing?

hey im just a shity like teenager who is to laxy to type out full words cuz there is no reason to

Damn im screwed.
Hmm

Lower class gangster could possibly be a term she would understand.

being american is boring i think
though i am part asain but i don't really care that much

laxy or lazy.........I hope the latter of the two cause otherwise that could be nasty.

Anyway brothers, since its 04:46 in the morning in England I bid you goodnight and I'll let you continue to nation-bash for being so admirably patriotic......

ooooh but how do you pronounce THAT?!?!

peace x