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Old 07-11-2009, 12:47 AM   #1
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I will not enjoy this show due to the guttural, gobbledygook brit accent.
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Old 07-11-2009, 01:38 AM   #2
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Still waiting so see it here.
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Old 07-11-2009, 05:12 AM   #3
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New Zealanders are the worst. There is one who teaches in another division of my company, the guy is teaching English when native English speakers can't even understand him. His students bleed over into my classes because he is just a lousy speaker, and thinks of himself as the English god. Another teacher that works for him is Kyrgyzstani, her English *with the Russian accent* is bar far better than his. And even even says mine, which is American, is horrible and incorrect. My students, and even some who are not my students, all say they prefer American English to Brit or other.
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Old 07-11-2009, 05:31 AM   #4
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There are loads of different British accents so you're talking bollocks. Though just count yourself lucky they're not all speaking Welsh, seeing as it is based there. We are capable of watching US TV/films with the various mumbling, incoherent accents without complaining.
Bollocks?! You are speaking hogwash sir!

The brit guttural accent is intentional, as the incoherent drivel cannot be heard while singing.
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Old 07-11-2009, 11:30 AM   #5
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I will not enjoy this show due to the guttural, gobbledygook brit accent.
That's a shame, because with all the man-on-man action and inappropriate abuse of children it was practically tailor-made for you.
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Old 07-11-2009, 07:20 PM   #6
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You got toasted, doc. Just take it like a man.
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Old 07-12-2009, 02:23 AM   #7
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I will not enjoy this show due to the guttural, gobbledygook brit accent.
Funny how we manage to cope with yours all the damn time.
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Old 07-12-2009, 03:49 AM   #8
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Damn, I was hoping this would be a spinoff of Deadwood.
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Old 07-12-2009, 04:38 AM   #9
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Old 07-12-2009, 10:48 AM   #10
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British and other non-American English pop artists affect an American accent in order to broaden their potential market, while a lot just think it sounds more authentic, because they're copying American-style music in the first place.
gotta stick with what works.
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Old 07-12-2009, 11:33 AM   #11
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I speak American!

Then why does your english sound like American when sung?
Because there are certain sectors of American society in the more inbred areas where they object to hearing an accent that differs from that used by their blood relatives and sexual partners (but I repeat myself).

Hilarious, isn't it? Incidentally, do you cover up those vestigial gills at work?
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Old 07-12-2009, 01:54 PM   #12
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My students, and even some who are not my students, all say they prefer American English to Brit or other.
Is it a big deaf-blind school you work at ?
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Old 07-14-2009, 12:29 AM   #13
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I will not enjoy this show due to the guttural, gobbledygook brit accent.
Man, you have to be thick if you can't understand more than one accent - oh look, it's DFG!...

What I find hilarious is when the yanks need subtitles to watch English programmes. We can effortlessly understand your stupid simplified 'english for dummies' version you morons have created by butchering the mother tongue basically because you've stripped any intelligence out of it - is it any wonder you can't understand your betters!?

As for zakubandit's amusing comments about students learning english preferring American accents: I'm guessing because yanks speak english in a simplistically slow and retarded manner - of course they're going to prefer it!

In the UK, for example, people with a Birmingham accent are most easily understood by english learners because they speak in a truly slow and retarded manner, and are correspondingly the butts of accent jokes about thick people in this country...

I just love how you guys are so thick, you actually think it's a virtue!
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Old 07-14-2009, 01:48 AM   #14
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BTW, Torchwood series 3 generally rocked...

Obviously being Welsh written and directed, with a largely Welsh cast and mostly set it Cardiff helps...

Just as well we fixed Roald Dahl Plass in time for last weekend's International Food and Drink Festival...

On air on BBC America on the 20th July, if you yanks are interested.
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Old 07-14-2009, 02:01 AM   #15
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*whose
Thus proving there is an exception to every rule...
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Old 07-14-2009, 02:06 AM   #16
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So, not only is 'cutlery' apparently not in US 'English' vocab

We say 'silverware.' You poor inbred ****s probably can't afford silver eating utensils, so you had to invent a word like 'cutlery' to describe your simple peasant utensils. It's understandable.
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Old 07-14-2009, 02:19 AM   #17
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Man, you have to be thick if you can't understand more than one accent - oh look, it's DFG!...

What I find hilarious is when the yanks need subtitles to watch English programmes. We can effortlessly understand your stupid simplified 'english for dummies' version you morons have created by butchering the mother tongue basically because you've stripped any intelligence out of it - is it any wonder you can't understand your betters!?

As for zakubandit's amusing comments about students learning english preferring American accents: I'm guessing because yanks speak english in a simplistically slow and retarded manner - of course they're going to prefer it!

In the UK, for example, people with a Birmingham accent are most easily understood by english learners because they speak in a truly slow and retarded manner, and are correspondingly the butts of accent jokes about thick people in this country...

I just love how you guys are so thick, you actually think it's a virtue!
What is hilarious about having to use subtitles to understand WTF you brits are saying?
You brits can understand what we say.
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Old 07-14-2009, 02:43 AM   #18
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Man, you have to be thick if you can't understand more than one accent - oh look, it's DFG!...

What I find hilarious is when the yanks need subtitles to watch English programmes. We can effortlessly understand your stupid simplified 'english for dummies' version you morons have created by butchering the mother tongue basically because you've stripped any intelligence out of it - is it any wonder you can't understand your betters!?

As for zakubandit's amusing comments about students learning english preferring American accents: I'm guessing because yanks speak english in a simplistically slow and retarded manner - of course they're going to prefer it!
Maybe the reason why Brits can understand American accents more readily than Americans can understand theirs and why non-English speakers prefer the American accent over the British ones is American movies and TV. They play in most countries. I'm willing to bet that most major cities in most countries of the world will see the top ranking ten American films every year - and if the theaters don't carry them the DVD stores will. The top ranking American TV likewise permeates most foreign markets. People prefer the American accents because they're spoken by Indiana Jones, Spiderman, Batman, etc., etc.

All you blokes got is Harry Potter.
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