Just because Georgie III was as mad as a box of frogs there really was no need to overdo things. Lunacy can strike in any family. You ex-colonials have some funny ways. You seceded from the Crown and thought that a spiffing wheeze, but what a great tizzy you made when the Confederacy wanted to do the same less than a century later. Can't you even try to be a little more consistent?
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Originally posted by glyn View PostThe chances are that you would be speaking correctly, employing better manners and even spelling things the right way!"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
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Originally posted by JAD_333 View PostDamn, dale, you picked a lulu.
I hadn't even thought of the territorial aspects that have been brought up. I can't imagine France selling Louisiana to their blood enemies the English :). Probably would have gone to Spain or Portugal. Or Rome! A Holy Roman Bayou! :)
-dale
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You would all be poor. You would have a Queen and not a First Lady. You would be far more civilised. Fast food would not have been invented and there would be no obesity in the world. You would be eating scones and cream. You would be driving vehicles and not not vee-hiccles. Oh yes and you wouldn't be so loud.
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:)Originally posted by dalem View PostI was yammering with a buddy about the AWI, and we were discussing books (I recommend Benson Bobrick's "Angel in the Whirlwind" very highly.
I was thinking that maybe if the Stamp Tax had been better presented or received, for instance, the whole thing could have blown over.
A Holy Roman Bayou! :)To be Truly ignorant, Man requires an Education - Plato
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Originally posted by gunnut View PostWe would use petrol instead of gasoline and drive on the wrong side of the road.
Now you need to master diction, so have a cockshy at "May maid Mary marry merry Murray, mother?" (hint: It should not sound like murrymurrymurry!). Next, you are required to do something about the spelling of words lke 'donut', 'nite', 'lite' and other common outrages. Do this, and I can see a peerage coming your way!:)Semper in excretum. Solum profunda variat.
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glyn,
just wondering, is there any particular US accent that you find, ah, less outrageous in the pronunciation of the english language? or is it all the same? i've wondered about this in regards to brits.There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov
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Originally posted by astralis View Postglyn,
just wondering, is there any particular US accent that you find, ah, less outrageous in the pronunciation of the english language? or is it all the same? i've wondered about this in regards to brits.
i suppose its a kind of a reflection on the way we view the differing parts of american society, with a southern accent you can imagine the speaker smiling at you while they're speaking, with a dreadful New York nasal accent you can imagine them stabbing you for standing on the PAVEMENT!, while the Californian accent - or perhaps 'shopping mall' accent - gives the distinct impression of absolute inactivity between the ears and appears to intone that while said imbecile may be speaking at you, they aren't actually aware of your existance...
perhaps, in light of Shek's rather excellent idea of a monthly book club, we should lay on a monthly 'how to speak and write English' club where the chosen among us can give gentle help to our less fortunate cousins in putting the letter 'U' in words, not subtituting the letter 'D' for the letter 'T', and not devising really naff alternative words for high-quality offensive language.
yippee ky-ay muddyfunsters!before criticizing someone, walk a mile in their shoes.................... then when you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
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Originally posted by astralis View Postglyn,
just wondering, is there any particular US accent that you find, ah, less outrageous in the pronunciation of the english language? or is it all the same? i've wondered about this in regards to brits.
-dale
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Originally posted by dave angel View PostE2A: Mods and Admins, you really need to sort out the word sensor, you can say 'Bush' but not 'D yke', whas goin' on?
Yes, it's also a proper noun for a person's surname, but...
Hey, at least we've corrected "saltwater" and "Chardonnay"
By the way, go ahead PM Ironduke or myself directly if you find censor bugs.
Originally posted by dave angel View Posti suppose its a kind of a reflection on the way we view the differing parts of american society, with a southern accent you can imagine the speaker smiling at you while they're speaking, with a dreadful New York nasal accent you can imagine them stabbing you for standing on the PAVEMENT!, while the Californian accent - or perhaps 'shopping mall' accent - gives the distinct impression of absolute inactivity between the ears and appears to intone that while said imbecile may be speaking at you, they aren't actually aware of your existance...
New Yawk and New Joisey accents tend to be just a tad harsh on the ears, not to mention the classic Bostonian and Rhode Island "pahk da cah" stuff...
The California "Valley" accent is equally inane to the rest of the country. Fortunately you don't usually encounter it outside it's native territory.
A lovely belle with a soft Virginia accent is one of the finer pleasures in life...:)
Originally posted by glyn View PostYou ex-colonials have some funny ways. You seceded from the Crown and thought that a spiffing wheeze, but what a great tizzy you made when the Confederacy wanted to do the same less than a century later. Can't you even try to be a little more consistent?
And hey, I didn't exactly see the Queen's ships and the Queen's men rushing to the Confederacy's aid either...!“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
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Originally posted by dalem View PostI remember hearing, in an interview I believe, the linguist John McWhorter say that it's the British who have moved further away from the King's English since the Revolution, and that blue-blood New Englanders (you know, the "Daaahling" types) actually are closer to how English was spoken at the time.
-daleSemper in excretum. Solum profunda variat.
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Well , the English members should start this purity campaign in their homeland ;) . About a year ago a Englishman became a customer to my employer. Came in several times , spoke with impossible accent and luckily was a good-humoured man , because everybody kept asking him (unintenionally) ´Sorry , do You speak English?´If i only was so smart yesterday as my wife is today
Minding your own biz is great virtue, but situation awareness saves lives - Dok
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Originally posted by astralis View Postglyn,
just wondering, is there any particular US accent that you find, ah, less outrageous in the pronunciation of the english language? or is it all the same? i've wondered about this in regards to brits.Semper in excretum. Solum profunda variat.
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