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Posted April 23, 2015
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EndreWhiteMane: It that one o them thar snobby brits talkin' trash bout us 'muricans agin?
Ah talk an writ gooder englissh than any o them thar forin peepls.
*quickly hugging you speechless before you are giving me a headache with more of this* :P
Posted April 23, 2015
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ElTerprise: I don't know - but English was usually referred to as British English in school....
But then as you said something like German German is also not used (it sounds riddiculous) it's just German in contrast to Austrian German and Swiss (standard) German...so you're it doesn't make any sense to call in British English as all other varieties evolved from it :).
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ddickinson: I know where the term comes from, it's those damn Americans! :-)

They like to refer to their English as the default English, and thus British-English started to be used. A bit like how they decided to call football soccer and try to influence the world to do the same. I am not sure why they decided to use the term football for their sport, when football had been around for hundreds of years already by the time American-Football came along. Another example is the Jack Russell, which is an English breed of dog. I remember reading that the American Jack Russell society wants to get a law passed to have the term Jack Russell refer to the American Jack Russell, and again make the English (and the original) Jack Russell be refereed to as the British/English-Jack Russell, instead of the current American-Jack Russell.
Two words - culture parasite. ;)
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EndreWhiteMane: It that one o them thar snobby brits talkin' trash bout us 'muricans agin?
Ah talk an writ gooder englissh than any o them thar forin peepls.
-laughs-

Good morning. =)

How're you doing today?
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CarrionCrow: Those other red flags tend to be open displays of racism, homophobia, and/or deranged zealotry.
You're not missing anything, trust me.
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ElTerprise: I already guessed something like that ;)
Well, you guessed correctly. Depending on what group of people you're speaking with at a given time, it can feel like you're in 2015, or have managed to step through a time warp back to all the worst parts of the 50's.
Post edited April 23, 2015 by CarrionCrow
Posted April 23, 2015
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EndreWhiteMane: It that one o them thar snobby brits talkin' trash bout us 'muricans agin?
Ah talk an writ gooder englissh than any o them thar forin peepls.
Moin Endre, how are you today.

And seems legit what you wrote. Reminds me a bit of the squabblings between Northern Germans and Southern Germans on who speaks the better German ^^
Posted April 23, 2015
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CarrionCrow: If your family didn't, I'm figuring it would be a huge mess until the combined tension and stress of working hard all the time caused someone to have a total meltdown.

It's good to see that kind of supportiveness. It's also an interesting perspective shift, since I'm kinda waiting, either with malice or without, for anyone who calls me a sibling to die. -laughs-
I consider myself very lucky to have the family I do. Even when I came home with my partner the first time there was never a single problem, they welcomed her and have always treated her like one of the family. Where as her family (mainly her mother), is quite the opposite, and despises me and the fact I am with her daughter.

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moonshineshadow: Your are right, it does not make sense at all. For me when saying English, I mean the British English. The only time I think of it as British English is when setting the language at word documents :P
I completely understand the need for the word British-English, for things like word documents and spelling, but I have just always been a bit curious why the default term for English does not go straight to English spoken in England.

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EndreWhiteMane: It that one o them thar snobby brits talkin' trash bout us 'muricans agin?
Ah talk an writ gooder englissh than any o them thar forin peepls.
I was going to try to write this in 'murican-English, but I am not sure I can, plus it would play havoc with my dyslexic brain and I might just end up confusing myself. :-)

So. Hello, Endre! How are you today, how is the knee?

*Big morning hug*
Posted April 23, 2015
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ddickinson: I know where the term comes from, it's those damn Americans! :-)

They like to refer to their English as the default English, and thus British-English started to be used. A bit like how they decided to call football soccer and try to influence the world to do the same. I am not sure why they decided to use the term football for their sport, when football had been around for hundreds of years already by the time American-Football came along. Another example is the Jack Russell, which is an English breed of dog. I remember reading that the American Jack Russell society wants to get a law passed to have the term Jack Russell refer to the American Jack Russell, and again make the English (and the original) Jack Russell be refereed to as the British/English-Jack Russell, instead of the current American-Jack Russell.
Well Germany has lot of american influences since that one event we won't mention here :P, i think American Football mostly replaced Rugby in Germany for example.

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CarrionCrow: Well, you guessed correctly. Depending on what group of people you're speaking with at a given time, it can feel like you're in 2015, or have managed to step through a time warp back to all the worst parts of the 50's.
Things like this can also happen in Germany. It's not really restricted to the US...
Post edited April 23, 2015 by ElTerprise
Posted April 23, 2015
Wazzup?

I see we've gotten to the 1500 hundred pages milestone and beyond. But we're still 2700 posts shy of finding out wether the forum database indexes its posts with a short signed int or not.

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ElTerprise: I don't know - but English was usually referred to as British English in school....
But then German German is also not used (it sounds riddiculous) it's just German in contrast to Austrian German and Swiss (standard) German...so you're it doesn't make any sense to call in British English as all other varieties evolved from it :).
Darned Austrians and their ß!

Shake your fist harder at them!
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EndreWhiteMane: It that one o them thar snobby brits talkin' trash bout us 'muricans agin?
Ah talk an writ gooder englissh than any o them thar forin peepls.
You could have fooled me, for a second I mistook you for a Manchester chav.
Post edited April 23, 2015 by j0ekerr
Posted April 23, 2015
I love being able to laugh about 'muricans here ;-)
I normally can't have conversations like this without at least 3 people pulling guns out ;-p
Posted April 23, 2015
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j0ekerr: Darned Austrians and their ß!

Shake your fist harder at them!
You know the ß is a normal letter in Germany as well? Only the Swiss are free of it :D
Posted April 23, 2015
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CarrionCrow: Two words - culture parasite. ;)
I though that said Two Worlds at first and thought you were commenting on the quality of that game. :-)

In my defence, I am only skimming the forums while trying to sort through some documentation and find some more things my father has "filed away", meaning lord knows where it is. :-)
Posted April 23, 2015
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j0ekerr: Wazzup?

I see we've gotten to the 1500 hundred pages milestone and beyond. But we're still 2700 posts shy of finding out wether the forum database indexes its posts with a short signed int or not.

Darned Austrians and their ß!

Shake your fist harder at them!
Moin.
Uhm...most German varieties are using the ß (apart from Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the german speakers in Namibia)..
Posted April 23, 2015
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CarrionCrow: If your family didn't, I'm figuring it would be a huge mess until the combined tension and stress of working hard all the time caused someone to have a total meltdown.

It's good to see that kind of supportiveness. It's also an interesting perspective shift, since I'm kinda waiting, either with malice or without, for anyone who calls me a sibling to die. -laughs-
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ddickinson: I consider myself very lucky to have the family I do. Even when I came home with my partner the first time there was never a single problem, they welcomed her and have always treated her like one of the family. Where as her family (mainly her mother), is quite the opposite, and despises me and the fact I am with her daughter.
That's the difference, D. Some people, like you and your family, are good.
Some people, like your partner's mother, are kinda shit, just in general.
Post edited April 23, 2015 by CarrionCrow
Posted April 23, 2015
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AgentBirdnest: I love being able to laugh about 'muricans here ;-)
I normally can't have conversations like this without at least 3 people pulling guns out ;-p
Well that makes these conversations interesting and open-endede :P
Posted April 23, 2015
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EndreWhiteMane: It that one o them thar snobby brits talkin' trash bout us 'muricans agin?
Ah talk an writ gooder englissh than any o them thar forin peepls.
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CarrionCrow: -laughs-

Good morning. =)

How're you doing today?
Doing OK here, knee's a little better and on coffee number 2.
Looked like your storm was a good one on the radar last night.
Any damage? How are you feeling today?
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EndreWhiteMane: It that one o them thar snobby brits talkin' trash bout us 'muricans agin?
Ah talk an writ gooder englissh than any o them thar forin peepls.
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moonshineshadow: *quickly hugging you speechless before you are giving me a headache with more of this* :P
Woof! OK, I'll stop now. :-)
*big hug back*
Post edited April 23, 2015 by EndreWhiteMane
Posted April 23, 2015
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j0ekerr: You could have fooled me, for a second I mistook you for a Manchester chav.
That proves how uncultured you are, the spelling of Endre's post was way too good. :-)

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AgentBirdnest: I love being able to laugh about 'muricans here ;-)
I normally can't have conversations like this without at least 3 people pulling guns out ;-p
But I think I need to stop bringing up these topics, I am beginning to feel guilty for mentioning so much about the Americans that is not really that nice.
Posted April 23, 2015
Good morning

*coffees and silly lattes for whoever needs them*
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