American English vs English

[Symmetry]

What's up with Canadian English? The kids here who've learnt from Canadian-written curricula use the British spellings (e.g. colour) but use American words (e.g. candy) and speak with American accents. Did British and American English have sex and 9 months later there was Canadian English?

Language is fluid,there's nothing more comical than hearing young Brits aping the speech of fashionable black American rappers..

I'm not sure what you mean. Why "black" American rappers? Why suggest that rap is alien to British people?

Why use the word "aping"?

What were your assumptions going into this thread?

Aping as in copying,rap culture originated in black American culture to the best of my understanding,I find it comical (and you are free not to) when people a long way divorced from that indulge in such aping.Just an opinion.nothing sinister.
If you are implying there were racist undertones in my post you are wrong.

I apologise, you clearly never made any reference to race in your post and at no point suggested that you found any ethnic group to be comical if they behaved like another ethnic group and you clearly never employed the term "aping" as a point of comparison between said ethnic groups which you at no point declared to be comical.

I did refer to race obvously but not negatively and I definitely do not find any ethnic group comical.The comparison I made was between cultures primarily.Have you never heard of aping another persons behaviour,as in imitating them?But of course you know all this already you are only interested in taking an innocent personal observation and twisting it to get a reaction.Well done you can be proud of achieving that and not for the first time.

I apologise, you clearly made racial references but at no point did you suggest that the behaviour of a racial group was comical. At no point did you use the word "aping" with regards to African Americans. This should be clear. Any suggestion that I am in any way suggesting that Chang finds it comical to see any ethnic group "ape" African Americans is purely coincidence, and clearly has no relation to his ramblings.

[mrswdk]

What's wrong with kids borrowing the slang they hear in their favorite music? Cultural exchange is everywhere. The Japanese emperor and prime minister wear morning suits to their formal engagements.

[chang50]

What's wrong with kids borrowing the slang they hear in their favorite music? Cultural exchange is everywhere. The Japanese emperor and prime minister wear morning suits to their formal engagements.

Nothing at all,but I would humbly suggest,I personally,can on occasion find it amusing or even comical on the basis it sounds or looks incongruous.

[Symmetry]

What's wrong with kids borrowing the slang they hear in their favorite music? Cultural exchange is everywhere. The Japanese emperor and prime minister wear morning suits to their formal engagements.

Nothing at all,but I would humbly suggest,I personally,can on occasion find it amusing or even comical on the basis it sounds or looks incongruous.

Chang50, you are becoming the Change.

[chang50]

What's wrong with kids borrowing the slang they hear in their favorite music? Cultural exchange is everywhere. The Japanese emperor and prime minister wear morning suits to their formal engagements.

Nothing at all,but I would humbly suggest,I personally,can on occasion find it amusing or even comical on the basis it sounds or looks incongruous.

Chang50, you are becoming the Change.

Either you deliberately pretend to misunderstand my points in order to ridicule me,or you really don't understand them and prescribe to them motivations that do not exist implying I am being dishonest.Either way you are giving me a headache,so I've decided to foe you on the basis life is too short to deal with your nonesense.Please reciprocate.

[saxitoxin]

What's up with Canadian English? The kids here who've learnt from Canadian-written curricula use the British spellings (e.g. colour) but use American words (e.g. candy) and speak with American accents.

When Theodore Roosevelt ordered the recommendations of the Simplified Spelling Board to be adopted throughout the U.S., Harper wasn't yet Prime Minister of Canada (or even born). Ergo, there was no one to implement Roosevelt's orders in the True North Strong and Free.

Why suggest that rap is alien to British people?

Did you not watch the 2006 Eurovision, or what?

[Dukasaur]

What's up with Canadian English? The kids here who've learnt from Canadian-written curricula use the British spellings (e.g. colour) but use American words (e.g. candy) and speak with American accents. Did British and American English have sex and 9 months later there was Canadian English?

Pretty much.

Canadian english is an inconsistent blend of British and American usage. We will often mix British and American usage, even in the same sentence, even when using a derivative of the same word.

My favourite example is this:
British banks print cheques on a chequered-background paper.
American banks print checks on a checkered-background paper.
Canadian banks print cheques on a checkered-background paper.

The balance is becoming unbalanced, though. For a long time we have preserved British spellings in words like "organise" and "travelled", but the default spell-checker that comes with most software uses American spellings, and disgusting words like "organize" and "traveled" are becoming more common. Personally, I am vigilant, and almost always over-ride the spell-check, but many people either through laziness or ignorance let it have its evil way.

[chang50]

What's up with Canadian English? The kids here who've learnt from Canadian-written curricula use the British spellings (e.g. colour) but use American words (e.g. candy) and speak with American accents. Did British and American English have sex and 9 months later there was Canadian English?

Pretty much.

Canadian english is an inconsistent blend of British and American usage. We will often mix British and American usage, even in the same sentence, even when using a derivative of the same word.

My favourite example is this:
British banks print cheques on a chequered-background paper.
American banks print checks on a checkered-background paper.
Canadian banks print cheques on a checkered-background paper.

The balance is becoming unbalanced, though. For a long time we have preserved British spellings in words like "organise" and "travelled", but the default spell-checker that comes with most software uses American spellings, and disgusting words like "organize" and "traveled" are becoming more common. Personally, I am vigilant, and almost always over-ride the spell-check, but many people either through laziness or ignorance let it have its evil way.

Keep up the good work,standards must be maintained.

[_sabotage_]

Two Canadians and a Brit had a go at me for my pronunciation of the word shown with a long O. They insisted it is the same as the name Sean, but good old Webster knows what's up.

Language is dynamic, it has been said that modern American English (and Quebecois French) are closer to the languages spoken in the home countries 300 years ago than what the home countries speak today. Our American English is more similar to 18th century British English than modern British English is. But Chang is on point, language is fluid and only stubborn pretension gets people up in arms when Shakespeare and Shaw create new words. People like Sym : ).

[notyou2]

What's up with Canadian English? The kids here who've learnt from Canadian-written curricula use the British spellings (e.g. colour) but use American words (e.g. candy) and speak with American accents. Did British and American English have sex and 9 months later there was Canadian English?

Language is fluid,there's nothing more comical than hearing young Brits aping the speech of fashionable black American rappers..

I'm not sure what you mean. Why "black" American rappers? Why suggest that rap is alien to British people?

Why use the word "aping"?

What were your assumptions going into this thread?

Aping as in copying,rap culture originated in black American culture to the best of my understanding,I find it comical (and you are free not to) when people a long way divorced from that indulge in such aping.Just an opinion.nothing sinister.
If you are implying there were racist undertones in my post you are wrong.

I apologise, you clearly never made any reference to race in your post and at no point suggested that you found any ethnic group to be comical if they behaved like another ethnic group and you clearly never employed the term "aping" as a point of comparison between said ethnic groups which you at no point declared to be comical.

I liked you better before when you weren't so hostile.


Who pissed in your Cornflakes?

[2dimes]

I liked you better before when you weren't so hostile.

I don't remember that. Must have been before there was rap music.

[notyou2]

I liked you better before when you weren't so hostile.

I don't remember that. Must have been before there was rap music.

Maybe I just didn't see the hostility, but I believe he was never this blatant.

Can we talk about him like he's not in the room?

[saxitoxin]

Aided by the large body of work being created by prolific American composers such as John Philip Sousa, Henry Filmore and Edwin Eugene Bagley, American military and military-like bands became known for performing a unique style of quick-tempo marches with thundering brass and heavy percussion. One music critic, writing about the Boston Jubilee of 1872, contrasted the "velvety smoothness" of the invited Band of the Grenadier Guards to the follow-up performance orchestrated by U.S. Army bandmaster-general Patrick Gilmore which involved "a heterogeneous choir of nearly twenty thousand, an orchestra of about a thousand instrumentalists of decidedly mixed abilities ... an organ blown by steam power ... a drum of the most preposterous magnitude, and a few batteries of artillery."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St ... _evolution

[notyou2]

Aided by the large body of work being created by prolific American composers such as John Philip Sousa, Henry Filmore and Edwin Eugene Bagley, American military and military-like bands became known for performing a unique style of quick-tempo marches with thundering brass and heavy percussion. One music critic, writing about the Boston Jubilee of 1872, contrasted the "velvety smoothness" of the invited Band of the Grenadier Guards to the follow-up performance orchestrated by U.S. Army bandmaster-general Patrick Gilmore which involved "a heterogeneous choir of nearly twenty thousand, an orchestra of about a thousand instrumentalists of decidedly mixed abilities ... an organ blown by steam power ... a drum of the most preposterous magnitude, and a few batteries of artillery."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St ... _evolution

What life lessons are we to draw from this most note worthy post uncle Saxi?

[saxitoxin]

Aided by the large body of work being created by prolific American composers such as John Philip Sousa, Henry Filmore and Edwin Eugene Bagley, American military and military-like bands became known for performing a unique style of quick-tempo marches with thundering brass and heavy percussion. One music critic, writing about the Boston Jubilee of 1872, contrasted the "velvety smoothness" of the invited Band of the Grenadier Guards to the follow-up performance orchestrated by U.S. Army bandmaster-general Patrick Gilmore which involved "a heterogeneous choir of nearly twenty thousand, an orchestra of about a thousand instrumentalists of decidedly mixed abilities ... an organ blown by steam power ... a drum of the most preposterous magnitude, and a few batteries of artillery."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St ... _evolution

What life lessons are we to draw from this most note worthy post uncle Saxi?

f*ck it, like I care, I'm dating a model

[notyou2]

Aided by the large body of work being created by prolific American composers such as John Philip Sousa, Henry Filmore and Edwin Eugene Bagley, American military and military-like bands became known for performing a unique style of quick-tempo marches with thundering brass and heavy percussion. One music critic, writing about the Boston Jubilee of 1872, contrasted the "velvety smoothness" of the invited Band of the Grenadier Guards to the follow-up performance orchestrated by U.S. Army bandmaster-general Patrick Gilmore which involved "a heterogeneous choir of nearly twenty thousand, an orchestra of about a thousand instrumentalists of decidedly mixed abilities ... an organ blown by steam power ... a drum of the most preposterous magnitude, and a few batteries of artillery."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St ... _evolution

What life lessons are we to draw from this most note worthy post uncle Saxi?

f*ck it, like I care, I'm dating a model

Is it a scale model of the PT-109 made by Revell?

[Trevor33]

Kittens are cute.

[AslanTheKing]

try to learn german , u would be surprised about spelling
horse means pfejard ( pronounciation)
but its written
Pferd
kids , write it like this
ferd ( not ferd like bird - ferd like fejard)

[saxitoxin]

DO YOU CALL THIS:
A - GARDEN
B - YARD
C - METER
D - FLUKENZERTORDORSENHOFFENMEIERSCHTELZER DER BLUME*

* Aslan



DO YOU CALL THIS:
A - GARDEN
B - YARD
C - METER
D - FLUKENZERTORDORSENHOFFENMEIERSCHTELZER DER BLUME*

* Aslan

[2dimes]

Why didn't you post a picture of a garden?

[saxitoxin]

Right, then how about SCHEME.

EXAMPLE
"I'm participating in the Duke of Edinburgh awards scheme."

WHAT IS HAPPENING?
A: The Duke of Edinburgh is going to cheat you out of an award.
B: The Duke of Edinburgh is going to give you an award.

[notyou2]

Right, then how about SCHEME.

EXAMPLE
"I'm participating in the Duke of Edinburgh awards scheme."

WHAT IS HAPPENING?
A: The Duke of Edinburgh is going to cheat you out of an award.
B: The Duke of Edinburgh is going to give you an award.

It means both.

[mrswdk]

Maybe you and the Duke of Edinburgh are going to collaborate to cheat a third party out of their award.

[Serbia]

f*ck it, like I care, I'm dating a model

FOR THE LAST TIME, WE ARE NOT DATING.




We're only fucking.

Bollocks.

[Baron Von PWN]

Don't they use math in Canada, too?

(we need more language threads, these are my favourites)

we do