RE: A Question for Brits...
March 3, 2014 at 10:45 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2014 at 10:48 pm by MitchBenn.)
(March 3, 2014 at 9:19 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Actually I do have some questions for Brits.
I could very easily look them up on Google, but this is simply more fun (and perhaps more accurate anyway).
Brits only please. Americans shut your filthy yankee pie holes.
1. Do Brits (including Ireland of course) celebrate the US's Thanksgiving?
2. Do Brits dislike Americans (on average)?
3. Do you like having a monarchy?
4. Do you prefer American TV shows over British TV shows (on average)?
5. Do you feel there is any truth that Americans have better teeth than Brits?
6. Do you think American's have a sexy accent or do you think we sound really stupid?
7. What's so great about Doctor Who?
8. How common is the word 'fag' used when referring to a cigarette?
9. Do you wish your country had won the Revolutionary War?
10. Would you be willing to let me stay with you for a week if I visited your country?
(For the record, I think the British accent is far superior to the American accent.)
1. No.
2. No.
3. Most of us are kind of benignly indifferent; you get the odd obsequious flag-waver but they're dying out. The royals are more the National Soap Opera than anything else. And bear in mind that the monarch plays no major part in the RUNNING of the country; that's down to Parliament.
4. Me or all of us? I'd say no either way. We only see the good US stuff, but in any event the homegrown stuff is most popular, as I imagine it is in many countries.
5. Yes & no; our teeth are about as healthy as yours but I think we're less hung-up on orthodontic perfection. We don't tend to make our teenagers spend 5 years with their head in a frame for fear of having one tooth 5 degrees out of whack...
6. Sexy Americans sound sexy; stupid Americans sound stupid. We don't tend to go all giggly over US accents the way Americans are reputed to go over ours.
7. It's the coolest smartest wildest most imaginative TV show in the history of the medium, bar none.
8. Less common these days; it's a middle-aged kind of word now. Never smoked so I couldn't tell you what the kids call 'em now.
9. God no.
10. Spare room's full for the foreseeable I'm afraid.
(March 3, 2014 at 9:40 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Sorry. How the hell am I supposed to know the difference between a British accent and an English accent? Help a brother out.
Well English is a subset of British, so a British accent could be English, Scottish, Welsh and ( though some of them would differ) Northern Irish.
Bear in mind also that there are dozens of identifiably distinct accents INSIDE England alone...
