[denSmumbSes]

I find it funny that a guy who just wrote out a conversation full of milspeak would accuse others of not being able to speak English.

[Rategbee]

Some guy said "Cheer-e-o" to me today. It was kinda gay.

[DoctorDulitlBest]

it's probably his surname.

and we can't help it if you colonials are unable to understand the mother tounge.

That would be "tongue".

[iceleliewBync]

Really, like only UKMOD(which I hope people will be able to figure out) and the 24hr time keeping is "Milspeak". The rest is ITish.

"JIEDDO" (which is milspeak) is the only one I didn't understand.

[erepsysoulperj]

"JIEDDO" (which is milspeak) is the only one I didn't understand.

JIEDDO is an organization over in Crystal City.

You Americans can be so amazingly arrogant it is unbelievable. I mean, you've butchered the language, made it so whiny and nasal. Actually, it's the other way around. In the 1750s it became the "thing" by the British Upper Classes to change the pronunciation of words so that English would sound more Frenchy and Romantic.

American English is the more pure form of it.

[Markdogas]

it's probably his surname.

and we can't help it if you colonials are unable to understand the mother tounge.

If they actually spoke in the Queen's English it wouldn't be so bad but it is the regional accents and slang which kill me.

[cheaploans]

Now that you mention it Texans sound like retards too.

[jdynwa]

Now that you mention it Texans sound like retards too.

'Sound like'?

[provigil]

It does, doesn't it?

[actifadepette]

American English always struck me as pretty close to Irish, at least by dialectical standards.

[Kiliunjubl]

I still remember a "modern English" BBC adaptation of Othello I watched a snippet of for a Shakespeare class. Desdemona was some sort of horrid cockney or something. When Othello confronted her with the "truth," she squawked out, "I's nawt trooooo!" Made you wonder why Othello hadn't smothered her already.