tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post8951067860902544664..comments2024-01-04T06:27:01.723-06:00Comments on Troll Racials are Overpowered: What's with all the Europeans?Klepsacovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-83120742303958140422011-08-29T04:54:06.899-05:002011-08-29T04:54:06.899-05:00I think you'll find that quite a few of your b...I think you'll find that quite a few of your blogging friends are actually evil Germans in disguise. (Not that I will confirm or deny any such identity information!)scrusihttp://procrastinationamplification.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-57209984815665634012011-08-18T17:02:39.291-05:002011-08-18T17:02:39.291-05:00@Syl: Americans DO think Canadians are exotic. I h...@Syl: Americans DO think Canadians are exotic. I have happy memories as a teenager convincing American teens in chat rooms that we all lived in igloos, eat poutine for breakfast, and had no running water.<br /><br />Of course, Rick Mercer took it one step further: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_to_AmericansFaeldrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11144815682821758206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-67447501996482665752011-08-18T07:46:07.644-05:002011-08-18T07:46:07.644-05:00"In the future everyone will be speaking bad ..."In the future everyone will be speaking bad English", a mangled quote from a German newspaper article I read years ago. <br /><br />Brit(s) is fine. As an Englishman who lived for years in Wales I've come to realise the distinct lack of a unified cultural identity for England (people generally associate more with the part they live in: 'the north', the 'south-east' etc). That's in marked contrast to Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland where cultural heritage has been kept alive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-47379496056812355682011-08-17T02:15:52.464-05:002011-08-17T02:15:52.464-05:00That reminds me of a show I recently watched on MT...That reminds me of a show I recently watched on MTV, a US dance competition or something (don't ask, it wasn't my idea) where the jury gives each act a short feedback. one of the competing teams was treated as the "foreigners" there, with the judges pointing out how much guts they had to enter a US competition. turns out, they were Canadians rofl...how EXOTIC!<br /><br />/facepalmSylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04473554645340972749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-19217451890267766952011-08-16T22:06:26.618-05:002011-08-16T22:06:26.618-05:00"irony versus sarcasm"
I'm ironic, y..."irony versus sarcasm"<br />I'm ironic, you're sarcastic. Universal truth.<br /><br />@Issy: So Redcoat is a no-no?<br /><br />@Andy: I'm not sure on those two slurs. Personally I'd put them about the same, bad, but not horribly bad. Maybe I'd put them in the same category as negro, which is, words I thought died out in 1960 and at this point find quaint before offensive.<br /><br />@Stabs: Maybe you're just bad at seeing it.Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-46846566162445935702011-08-16T17:17:28.307-05:002011-08-16T17:17:28.307-05:00I need to learn how to write the word humour with ...I need to learn how to write the word humour with an invisible u.Stabshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716211705647213383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-91069048980178440572011-08-16T16:46:09.873-05:002011-08-16T16:46:09.873-05:00"Are Americans incapable of writing interesti..."Are Americans incapable of writing interesting (subjective, I know, but that doesn't mean other people aren't wrong) posts in a statistically significant manner? "<br /><br />I think it's fairly obvious from my entire canon of written work that No. We are not.Glyph, the Architecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05770027239906401274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-11534425582281374262011-08-16T16:44:15.322-05:002011-08-16T16:44:15.322-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Glyph, the Architecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05770027239906401274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-65020817217099936282011-08-16T07:42:37.290-05:002011-08-16T07:42:37.290-05:00Oh and yeah, it is somewhat shameful that even in ...Oh and yeah, it is somewhat shameful that even in countries where English isn't the first language, many people write better than native English speakers. I wouldn't go as far as to say they <em>speak</em> better English, although it depends on how you define "better". More grammatically correct? More understandably? More fluently? Least amount of "foreign" accent?<br /><br />I often wonder what people like Gevlon would sound like when speaking, say on a podcast. His English is plenty understandable, although the occasional grammar oddness clearly marks it as non-native. Still, is it just bad spelling an punctuation that stops people being at least competent writers? I'm not so sure: plenty of native English speakers still make grammar mistakes, although of a different kind to non-native speakers.<br /><br />Apologies for the post-like nature of this comment.caerphotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08126464462656422279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-12676611944070384562011-08-16T07:31:29.335-05:002011-08-16T07:31:29.335-05:00It seems to only be Americans who use the word &qu...It seems to only be Americans who use the word "Brit", not sure why. I get the impression people from the various European countries use "English" (or "Scottish"/"Welsh"/"Irish"). How a person from the UK responds to being called a "Brit" would likely depend on whether they self-identify as British, or English (or S/W/I).<br /><br />Can't really think of an equivalent American term. "Yank" is possibly the closest.<br /><br />On a related note, is "Chink" more offensive than "Jap"? If so, why? Seems to me like it's just as shortening of the term of nationality, same as "Brit", though possibly there's some historical context I'm not aware of.caerphotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08126464462656422279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-8817485555677749812011-08-16T07:03:19.411-05:002011-08-16T07:03:19.411-05:00Brit is fine.. well, it's fine if you use it i...Brit is fine.. well, it's fine if you use it in the context of Brit Pop for instance.. but not so much if you use it in the *Brits abroad* context, because really, none of us want to be thought of as part of the lobster parade on the beach, even if we deserve it :PIssyhttp://jayceandco.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-44598906508070499952011-08-16T06:04:38.232-05:002011-08-16T06:04:38.232-05:00Ask them to spell Colour. Or Favour. Or Humour.
A...Ask them to spell Colour. Or Favour. Or Humour.<br /><br />Alternatively, ask them to give an example of irony versus sarcasm.Gazimoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17260019919090396465noreply@blogger.com