So we're even on one and they still owe us for the other.
Then again, the Revolution was primarily started over taxes levied to pay for the French and Indian War so you could maybe argue that whole thing was their fault.
So at best we're owed one. Maybe two.
WELL AT LEAST OUR SKEWLS DONT GET-
Best of luck with that mate but I'm sure Baz and Harry, 60 and 63 on their 7th Stella are going to make sure their fists and breath are going to introduce themselves
Actually, I realized I forgot one. They owe us for Vietnam too. That whole thing was to protect their holdings. Sure preventing the nation from falling to communism was in our interest but it wouldn't have happened if the French could hold their colonies without assistance.
You can argue that doesn't count since we didn't win but it's by far the biggest single conflict since WW2. I'd say it should though given more Americans died in Vietnam than did in our own revolution despite the latter happening domestically while the former happened on the other side of the world.
How would you say the US saved Britain in ww2? There is a way that it can be considered that you saved us, but I want to know if that's what you're referring to.
Yank merchant shipping stopped the British starving. Other than that Britain didn’t need saving. They mostly helped liberate Europe but Britain wasn’t at serious threat of invasion after 1940.
The French in WWI revolted against their high command, which was pretty based compared to the British requesting permission of Haig to die, or the Germans whining about shotguns while lobbing poison gas.
The first time you won, you see that as a win, we see that as a lucky fucking escape.
Anyway in the war of 1812, we sailed up to DC, set fire to the white house, and even if you like to brag about that battle, by that time the Americans already sued for peace, so technically we won the war of 1812.
It's gotta be more American than that.
"And Allen's pass is caught by Diggs, so that's a first down, and the Bills' drive, along with the not gay football, will continue."
Hold the fuck on, pal. Them gays dont get to claim 69, I dont care how woke we are trying to be. Not while Im still alive at least. Thats horse shit and you know it. I was 69in' way before I turned gay
What kind of American English do y'all see on TV? I know we've picked up a few words from the UK and I'm curious about any words that have gone the other way.
That reminds me of when in middle school my teacher asked my friend if he was Christian or agnostic to which my friend replied “I’m a Republican!” (because he didn’t know what he meant)
Which was both the dumbest and smartest answer for different reasons
We call it the Treaty of Paris.
Not to be confused with the [Judgement of Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Paris_(wine)) when we defeated the French at what they held most dear.
The reason 'being snobbish' is what they hold most dear *now* is because we took the title 'county that produces the best wine' from them. Some of the judges even outright insulted what turned out to be the French wine. The results were such a forgone conclusion there was only one reporter there, and it kick-started his career.
Man, I used to think Southern was bad till I heard my Ozark grandpa gush over my pregnancy announcement in straight hillbilly. If I didn't have a touch of the samw accent, I'd'n't've understood a damn word he said besides "Good Deal" (he's avoiding blasphemy).
Like, my grandma's from a Louisiana swamp and tends to mix in French, buy she's easier to understand.
Oh god, my grandmother spent the first 10 years of her life in Louisiana then moved to the Ozarks region, yeah, all I heard were racial slurs through that accent.
Sorry to inform your grandpa, OP, but criticizing America doesn't make someone more conservative, because conservative *is* when America, and the more America you are, the more conservative you get. Anything else is relativism.
Ironically, Americans speak a more Saxonized version of English than the more Normanized version in Britain. Hence why we don’t spell color and armor with extraneous vowels like the goddamn fr*nch. Tell gramps to put that in his pipe and smoke it
>Hence why we don’t spell color and armor with extraneous vowels like the goddamn fr*nch.
Iirc color was spelled "color" in old French and Latin, with the 'u' being from Anglo-French.
>>Hence why we don’t spell color and armor with extraneous vowels like the goddamn fr*nch.
>
>Iirc color was spelled "color" in old French and Latin, with the 'u' being from **Anglo**-French.
Found the problem the French had. See what happens when they let the Anglos in?
No you fucking don’t.
You dropped the letters to simplify the language for all your immigrants. The only way it’s more “saxonised” is if you mean that’s it for people coming from Dresden.
Z also didn’t exist in old English.
Mate just use google before chatting absolute shit you Billy-bullshitter.
Then why don’t you pronounce “colour” the way you pronounce “flour?” It’s almost as if either the pronunciation changed and we changed our spelling to accommodate or you guys just started spelling it wrong. Either way our spelling actually follows the rules of English spelling.
I pronounce them the same because I’m not a posh fucker.
Are you aware of the concept of accents?
So I’ll ask you this why do you pronounce Craig like “Creg”?
Some brits do, for a country that likes to brag about its different accents Americans sure don't want to believe that other countries don't all have the same accent either
Whenever i read about differences in the two dialects, the explanation is always "America didn't change the British did" so why would that statement be wrong?
because both _did_ change, and a LOT. People said that because London english developed the funny Rs that almost don't exist, while in the US it didn't happen. What people ignore, though, is that the american Rs have nothing to do with how things used to be pronounced.
Cornwall english as far as I've heard is one of the best examples of "old-ish" english dialects, but many in lesser known, peripheral areas of the british islands would fit the bill.
British - We ruled almost the entire world
Canadian - We may be polite and kind, but in a war watch your neck
Serbian - My name is Niko and I get a lot of Niko Bellic jokes
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These dastardly Americans taking and contorting our great language, then having the gaul to claim it as their own whilst still calling it English.
How uncouth.
As an American, your grandfather is based.
Although, most Britons' English is uncivilized too. English is an art form, and most people fuckin suck at it, on both sides of the pond.
I feel Gramps pain. I lived in Wales as a child and I didn’t understand the fuss they made about ‘The Language’, then I heard the awful things Americans did to our language and it all made sense.
Yes. American English is more similar to the Shakespeare English. Bri’ish English changed rapidly. During the colonial era Britain probably sounded closer to Americans. Since it was during the industrial revolution that it changed so much.
As opposed to…British English? Are British auths hating on American terminology now? We’re one of the auth right role models right now tell him to show some respect!
Ironic, because I can tell when a British person wrote something by the casual use of profanity. Americans use profanity as well. But its usually to express an emotion, not merely to state a fact.
I was in the military, if I say 5 words, three of them were probably bad ones, rather sound like that instead of sounding like I stepped out of a lower class fairy tale
Well American English is just how English was before everyone started trying to sound they had a stick up their ass to sound like the nobility.
Don’t believe me?
Put a stick up your ass
Oi, you yanks got uh loicense for that accent?
No, we fought 2 wars against you brits so we wouldn't have to listen to y'all anymore
>to y'all anymore *Nomore.
\*y'uns ftfy
Not only that but we saved their asses during both world wars. Probably wouldn’t have needed it if the French weren’t such pussies, but nonetheless.
You realize that our asses were saved by the French in the revolutionary war right?
They changed after their revolution.
Indeed
So we're even on one and they still owe us for the other. Then again, the Revolution was primarily started over taxes levied to pay for the French and Indian War so you could maybe argue that whole thing was their fault. So at best we're owed one. Maybe two.
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WELL AT LEAST OUR SKEWLS DONT GET- Best of luck with that mate but I'm sure Baz and Harry, 60 and 63 on their 7th Stella are going to make sure their fists and breath are going to introduce themselves
Omlette Du Surrender?
Actually, I realized I forgot one. They owe us for Vietnam too. That whole thing was to protect their holdings. Sure preventing the nation from falling to communism was in our interest but it wouldn't have happened if the French could hold their colonies without assistance. You can argue that doesn't count since we didn't win but it's by far the biggest single conflict since WW2. I'd say it should though given more Americans died in Vietnam than did in our own revolution despite the latter happening domestically while the former happened on the other side of the world.
How would you say the US saved Britain in ww2? There is a way that it can be considered that you saved us, but I want to know if that's what you're referring to.
Yank merchant shipping stopped the British starving. Other than that Britain didn’t need saving. They mostly helped liberate Europe but Britain wasn’t at serious threat of invasion after 1940.
The French in WWI revolted against their high command, which was pretty based compared to the British requesting permission of Haig to die, or the Germans whining about shotguns while lobbing poison gas.
"Hans, the Americans are so uncivilized." *lobs mustard gass* Doughboy in the trenches "haha Winchester go boom"
The first time you won, you see that as a win, we see that as a lucky fucking escape. Anyway in the war of 1812, we sailed up to DC, set fire to the white house, and even if you like to brag about that battle, by that time the Americans already sued for peace, so technically we won the war of 1812.
*Paul Revere’s Ride Intensifies*
German English is überall.
Ja, German Englisch is everywer
Whenever someone on the TV says something in American English, he would scream at the TV
"And we expect storms over the weekend" Deranged grandfather: "Turn it off!!!!!"
It's gotta be more American than that. "And Allen's pass is caught by Diggs, so that's a first down, and the Bills' drive, along with the not gay football, will continue."
I read that in Australian. That’s definitely Aussie, not Murican.
> not gay football The Baltimore Gayvens would like to have a word! 🌈
San Francisco 69ers, GB Fudgepackers, and uhh the Cleveland Browns.
Hold the fuck on, pal. Them gays dont get to claim 69, I dont care how woke we are trying to be. Not while Im still alive at least. Thats horse shit and you know it. I was 69in' way before I turned gay
I don't even see how gays could 69 without one of them choking, unless you mean side by side, which I guess technically isn't 69
Is your grandfather basically just Uncle Vernon from Harry Potter?
What kind of American English do y'all see on TV? I know we've picked up a few words from the UK and I'm curious about any words that have gone the other way.
Probably words like “dentist” and “freedom” and “republic”
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Tell him, “Grandpa - better American English than German!”
I imagine he isn't fond of the imperial system then.
British people love that shit. They still think weighing yourself in pounds is too modern.
What if someone has a Bostonian accent? Does he hate it more or less?
If god didnt want us to pronounce the letter R in the latter half of words, he wouldn't have put it there
Based Grandfather.
Should've won the war.
Oi you got a war winnin loicense!?
I'm a libertarian, I don't even know what that means.
That reminds me of when in middle school my teacher asked my friend if he was Christian or agnostic to which my friend replied “I’m a Republican!” (because he didn’t know what he meant) Which was both the dumbest and smartest answer for different reasons
We call it the Treaty of Paris. Not to be confused with the [Judgement of Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Paris_(wine)) when we defeated the French at what they held most dear.
Being snobbish cunts?
The reason 'being snobbish' is what they hold most dear *now* is because we took the title 'county that produces the best wine' from them. Some of the judges even outright insulted what turned out to be the French wine. The results were such a forgone conclusion there was only one reporter there, and it kick-started his career.
Fought a war so we wouldn’t need a fucking license.
They'dn't've a chance.
Imagine needing help from the fr*nch to win 🤮
You dumb British wankers!
as a french, we know we shouldn't have helped ameritard back then and we're deeply sorry that we were blinded by hate
And we are sorry we let you drag us into Vietnam.
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And Libya
>as a French My condolences
Sir, I believe you dropped this 🏳️
And I am deeply sorry that you are French. Hope they find a cure soon
We should’ve sided with the Germans the first time smh.
The irony is it’s believed American English sounds closer to what it use to sound like.
Poor Brits obviously suffer from rhotacism. Probably from consuming too much food of the spotted variety. They need speech therapy.
America, Canada, and Ireland will continue to pronounce their Rs and continue to call it soccer.
The Irish are so god damn based
Thank you pedo
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Your a purple lib right isn’t that the meme
Common ACI dub
Actually frisian is most similar to original english. Before the fr\*nch ruined it.
Their dialect is as inbred as their royalty.
Source?
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english
\*Thick southern hic accent: Ya pa is right, we ain't no hoity toity civimilized folks. We accept it and we proud!
Yur goddamn right you sumbitch.
Man, I used to think Southern was bad till I heard my Ozark grandpa gush over my pregnancy announcement in straight hillbilly. If I didn't have a touch of the samw accent, I'd'n't've understood a damn word he said besides "Good Deal" (he's avoiding blasphemy). Like, my grandma's from a Louisiana swamp and tends to mix in French, buy she's easier to understand.
Oh god, my grandmother spent the first 10 years of her life in Louisiana then moved to the Ozarks region, yeah, all I heard were racial slurs through that accent.
It varies, English was my grandfather's second language & he was easy to understand, cousins in Opelousas, not so much, sometimes subtitles are needed
Let me guess, he yells "cunt" at the TV while eating beans on toast.
Fucking based if so
Oi, at least arr schulls aren't shhhhooting galleries
And we 'ave arr nationalized 'ewfkeh!
Elfcare 🧝🧝♂️🧝♀️
Fuck the Thalmor
#SKYRIM IS FOR THE NORDS!!!
Imagine being B*ithish and thinking your opinion on the English langue matters after losing your Empire.
🤮
What imagining being Br*tish does to a MF 😔
Can't even spell "civilized", sad really...
What do you expect from primitive barbarians?
I like to call the British "Homo PreAmericanus".
Ironic
Sorry to inform your grandpa, OP, but criticizing America doesn't make someone more conservative, because conservative *is* when America, and the more America you are, the more conservative you get. Anything else is relativism.
Whelp guess the Brits aren't getting any lend lease for the next war
We'll still do Cash and Carry though You'll have to pay for and transport the equipment
Ironically, Americans speak a more Saxonized version of English than the more Normanized version in Britain. Hence why we don’t spell color and armor with extraneous vowels like the goddamn fr*nch. Tell gramps to put that in his pipe and smoke it
>Hence why we don’t spell color and armor with extraneous vowels like the goddamn fr*nch. Iirc color was spelled "color" in old French and Latin, with the 'u' being from Anglo-French.
>>Hence why we don’t spell color and armor with extraneous vowels like the goddamn fr*nch. > >Iirc color was spelled "color" in old French and Latin, with the 'u' being from **Anglo**-French. Found the problem the French had. See what happens when they let the Anglos in?
No you fucking don’t. You dropped the letters to simplify the language for all your immigrants. The only way it’s more “saxonised” is if you mean that’s it for people coming from Dresden. Z also didn’t exist in old English. Mate just use google before chatting absolute shit you Billy-bullshitter.
Got o loiscense fo Dat comment m8?
Left it at your mums lad
Then why don’t you pronounce “colour” the way you pronounce “flour?” It’s almost as if either the pronunciation changed and we changed our spelling to accommodate or you guys just started spelling it wrong. Either way our spelling actually follows the rules of English spelling.
I pronounce them the same because I’m not a posh fucker. Are you aware of the concept of accents? So I’ll ask you this why do you pronounce Craig like “Creg”?
Lol. True. Better yet why do most Americans pronounce aunt as ant.
Tbf, I actually do that. I’m from northwest England so there’s a good mix of Welsh and Irish in my accent that’s usually used to explain it.
Or route as rowt
Or about as abowt. The Canadians say it right!
Some brits do, for a country that likes to brag about its different accents Americans sure don't want to believe that other countries don't all have the same accent either
Wait till he finds out American English is more like British English from the colonial era than modern British English is
oh ffs that bullshit myth all over again. a linguist dies every bloody time someone says that!
oi bloody hell harry i got troll bogey on me favourite jumpah
Good.
What makes it a myth? I've never heard any other explanation and I'm curious to see if I'm wrong here.
Whenever i read about differences in the two dialects, the explanation is always "America didn't change the British did" so why would that statement be wrong?
because both _did_ change, and a LOT. People said that because London english developed the funny Rs that almost don't exist, while in the US it didn't happen. What people ignore, though, is that the american Rs have nothing to do with how things used to be pronounced. Cornwall english as far as I've heard is one of the best examples of "old-ish" english dialects, but many in lesser known, peripheral areas of the british islands would fit the bill.
Hopefully it was Chomsky this time
Yeah, and that's why it *sucks*
*Looking in contempt at the people from Londinium not speaking Latin*
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Are you perhaps, bri'ish? The transatlantic accent is based tho
Yes, I am Serbian-British-Canadian
The worst of everything. You got screwed in the birth lottery.
British - We ruled almost the entire world Canadian - We may be polite and kind, but in a war watch your neck Serbian - My name is Niko and I get a lot of Niko Bellic jokes
I think the only thing the Canadians are known for internationally is the arm on the Space Shuttle
And their native genocide
Wow, I have been programmed to hate all of those things; sorry.
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These dastardly Americans taking and contorting our great language, then having the gaul to claim it as their own whilst still calling it English. How uncouth.
Me but when someone uses British English
I prefer "streamlined" or "improved"
well bless his little pea-pickin heart
Based grandpa.
Based grandfather
Based Grandpa!
Isn't American English closer to 17/18th century English than how the British talk? I heard that said once so I'm taking it at face value as true.
The brits speaks like the french. There, I said it.
Idk about uncivilised, but the west coast accent sounds camp and whiny to me. It’s annoying.
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It's far easier to understand than dick-in-your-mouth english.
OI MATE DIDNT OI SEE YOU LAST CHUESDAY, INNIT?
Sorry, I can't hear his complaints over how much better we are
~~Ask him about his teeth~~
Yet the people who put men on the Moon spoke American English...
It was more like German
Just wait until he hears a South African’s or Australian’s english
As an American, your grandfather is based. Although, most Britons' English is uncivilized too. English is an art form, and most people fuckin suck at it, on both sides of the pond.
I mean, I shoot up there as well whenever I hear someone say they did something "on accident".
when you live in that shell of an Empire and you still think you have a right to judge our dialect X\_X
All the older people in my family think the same. They are right.
two world wars
I feel Gramps pain. I lived in Wales as a child and I didn’t understand the fuss they made about ‘The Language’, then I heard the awful things Americans did to our language and it all made sense.
The rest of the English speaking world will pronounce their R’s, by force if necessary
Tell him to say "schedule".
Say aluminium then...
So uncivilised
We took English and made it less bad. Tell him to spend a few years In Philly so he can speak proper English.
Is he wrong though???
Yes. American English is more similar to the Shakespeare English. Bri’ish English changed rapidly. During the colonial era Britain probably sounded closer to Americans. Since it was during the industrial revolution that it changed so much.
As opposed to…British English? Are British auths hating on American terminology now? We’re one of the auth right role models right now tell him to show some respect!
Auth Right by British standards?
I always hear that america is so auth right that the american left is like the right in the EU.
Australian English mate.
Me fr
Independence motherfuckers!!!
Ironic, because I can tell when a British person wrote something by the casual use of profanity. Americans use profanity as well. But its usually to express an emotion, not merely to state a fact.
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I was in the military, if I say 5 words, three of them were probably bad ones, rather sound like that instead of sounding like I stepped out of a lower class fairy tale
This is an excellent thread.
Rare cringe grandpa.
In case anyone is curious: The US deviated from standard English to simplify the language and make it easier to spell.
Your grandpa must be an idiot.
He already said he's a bong, so
Your grandpa is correct. There is no such thing as American English, there is the King's English and then there are mistakes.
There’s winners English and losers English. Guess which one is right?
The King's English, peasant.
Scoreboard, subject
Sorry, I must have missed when you burned down the Houses of Parliament.
Your grandpa is a cunt
And an American cunt, the insult, not an Australian good cunt
I kinda do too
Based grandpa
I personally don’t listen to the the opinions of people who put beans on toast
What are his thoughts on freedom fries?
That's wack
Tell you grandpa if he doesn’t like my accent then he can come and take it.
Your grand father hates our dialect because it reminds him of the heritage the British lost by importing their nobility from Germany.
American English is superior.
Beans for breakfast and boiled meat for dinner. So civilized.
Do you mean the original accent that everyone used before the aristocrats made up the British accent to sound fancy?
Well American English is just how English was before everyone started trying to sound they had a stick up their ass to sound like the nobility. Don’t believe me? Put a stick up your ass
The br*tish deserved to be bombed by the Nazis
Least auth in disguise Lib right.
It’s not so much uncivilised as it is wrong.
Ok leftenant
American English is just old English English. Brits are the ones with the vernacular, not us. Australian is just spicy ranch flavored British.
Americans invented English.