It's not ENGLAND, it's THE UK

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*McLaren*
Because you're listening to a TV show. I would have thought by now, people not in the U.S. on this site would realize anything on TV depicting us is usually negative towards us.

I'm don't judge the U.K. based off your comedies or Top Gear. Otherwise, I'd think you'd all have an almost out-there taste in humour, or have nothing to show but being a jackass.

But I don't, so I don't see why you should be judging the U.S. from what you see on our TV shows. Hell, I was in France once, and some people there thought everyone in Dallas had money and oil.
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As someone pointed out in here somewhere, the people he asked were in the center of Las Vegas, so people there do seem to live away from everything else in the world. I said you Americans instead just to add humour to the thread...
 
G.T
As someone pointed out in here somewhere, the people he asked were in the center of Las Vegas, so people there do seem to live away from everything else in the world.
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And of course, the show's producers would never edit out the guy who can readily locate Uzbekistan on a blank map.
 
benzoboy
Judging by your daytime T.V, America is full of fat people who talk really loud about random subjects...
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I'm sure Top Gear has more relavence in Britian than The View does in America, but point taken.
Famine
Test your knowledge of European countries.
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Dumb former Eastern Bloc countries screw me up:
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Famine
Official language of Georgia? English. Ish.
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Now that LOON mentions it, don't they speak Georgian? I mean, they're no Kazakhstan, but hey, when you share your name with the heart of the American South East, you know you're special!
 
LOON
Whats that supposed to mean?
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I have friends who live in Georgia - at least the US State. I can understand most of what they say, most of the time, so it passes for English. Kinda.
 
^ I think it kinda depends on what part of Georgia you're in. I've been to the state a few times, and it isn't that bad. But I guess when you're converting from Queen's English to American English to Georgian-American English, it may be a bit of a stretch to get everything.
 
Queens English isn't exactly widespread in England.

Like America Englands English varies alot, most counties vary (though not all).
 
YSSMAN
^ I think it kinda depends on what part of Georgia you're in. I've been to the state a few times, and it isn't that bad. But I guess when you're converting from Queen's English to American English to Georgian-American English, it may be a bit of a stretch to get everything.
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I've met more talking animals that people who spoke proper Queen's English anywhere, believe me, someone from Yorkshire is not speaking Queen's English. We have hundereds of different dialects in England, Queens English is probably one of the rarest. The differences between Cockney, mancunia, Scouse and Geordie are pretty big. Someone not from the UK would more than likely struggle to understand Geordie.
 
Geordie's are harder to understand than Glaswegians, and their tough gits to understand.

And everyone knows that a geordie prime minister would sound like every other politician spat out of Eton.
 
England, UK, Great Britain, it's all Pomgolia to me! And you can't play cricket.
 
live4speed
I've met more talking animals that people who spoke proper Queen's English anywhere, believe me, someone from Yorkshire is not speaking Queen's English. We have hundereds of different dialects in England, Queens English is probably one of the rarest. The differences between Cockney, mancunia, Scouse and Geordie are pretty big. Someone not from the UK would more than likely struggle to understand Geordie.
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So we don't call it Queen's English then? Shall I go by the Austin Powers definition of "English English" then?

But I do understand what you mean. Midwestern-American English is certainly a bit different than what you would hear down South or out West.

I've learned a lot in this thread. Keep it coming, I like it. I'm almost tempted to start discussing slang again, but there is already a thread for that...
 
YSSMAN
So we don't call it Queen's English then? Shall I go by the Austin Powers definition of "English English" then?
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That's probably the safest, that or british English, both can be used. Though Queens English isn't technically a dialect, as you can have Queens English spoken with a mancunian accent or whatever, it's actually a way of pronouncing things. But it's not a common way. Queens English is correct, but only when applied to somone who speaks it. The vast majority of us don't.

Geordie is the most significantly different dialect in the UK imo. A phrase in Geordie could be "hinney ahm hyem" that's honey I'm home. "Ahm gahn pub fer a bevvy" is I'm going to the pub for a drink.
 
Famine
I have friends who live in Georgia - at least the US State. I can understand most of what they say, most of the time, so it passes for English. Kinda.
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I live in Georgia, a transplant from a place in which people speak normally, and I have the same problem.

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This quiz is hilarious fun.
 
M5Power
I live in Georgia, a transplant from a place in which people speak normally, and I have the same problem.

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This quiz is hilarious fun.
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Come on, we're not that bad, we talk slow enough so you shouldn't have that hard a time understanding us.
 
Well, I gave up telling people I was from the UK ages ago.:grumpy:
As the only people who knew where it was were from there.
And its not just Americans, I’ve met people from Europe who’ve never heard of it.
One thought it was the Ukraine. :scared:
 
Are you living in the UK then or moved away? I can't say I've ever met anyone fact to face that had never heared of the UK, or England. I've met people that wern't sure where it was though.
 
I've never heared of Grits before, at least not in the food sense.
 

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