What Annoyed you today

[doppelgaenger]

i hate australian english. what's with you?

a root, an ocker, a mate, good on ya. you people say some ****ed up shit.

[bluesummer]

North American English is bastardized English, you realize. Real English comes from England. The only people who speak 'real' English are the English. Australians use a lot of similar terms as the English. So how can you mock it when you're not really speaking English?

In proper English, you pronounce the letter z as 'zed', and words like honour and colour are spelled with a U. FYI.

[doppelgaenger]

English English is even worse. They can't even pronounce the borrowed French words properly.

And I am really speaking English.

[bluesummer]

English English is English. Get it?

[Doc Durian]

Plus there is the center/centre situation...

In fact, both tangents of the language have innumerable differences when one really observes and listens...

[Doc Durian]

English English is English. Get it?

It's been suggested in certain textbooks that the North American accent descended from a certain sub sector of immigrating England which I've yet to be fully convinced of, although it's possible.

[doppelgaenger]

1. North American English is not 'bastardized' English.
2. English (All Englishes) are bastardized German. I mean, ****, just look at the words. They are not pronounced exactly as they are spelled.
3. Languages change constantly over time. At one point, NAE and EE were in agreement with each other. Spelling, pronunciation and all.
Did you know, Bluesummer that a bird used to be a brird? What about an adder? It used to be a naedre.

Furthermore, EE and NAE have (After all these changes) chosen standards for spellings and everything.

4. Australians have some ****ed up words.

[bluesummer]

I know quite a bit about the evolution of language, as well as the roots of many of them. Did you know that German is a long derivative of Sanskrit? I've studied both. But thanks for the attempt at a lesson.

Americans have some pretty ****ed up words themselves.

[Mish]

English English is English. Get it?

This made me think of Major Major Major Major from Catch 22 for some reason

[doppelgaenger]

I know quite a bit about the evolution of language, as well as the roots of many of them. Did you know that German is a long derivative of Sanskrit? I've studied both. But thanks for the attempt at a lesson.

Americans have some pretty ****ed up words themselves.

German is not a 'derivative' of Sanskrit. Sanskrit is in a completely different family of languages. Modern standard German is from the Germanic group of languages, particularly from West Germanic subgroup. Sanskrit is from Indo-Aryan. Both of them are Indo-European languages though, and both are theorized by linguists to have come from the proto language, Indo-European. Anyway, here's a new word to add to your vocabulary: Etymology. You can replace 'evolution of languages' with that.

And you're welcome for the attempt at a lesson.

PS, Canadians are still Americans

[vashti]

What annoyed me today? The previous conversation, just a bit.

[Doc Durian]

What annoyed me today? The previous conversation, just a bit.

Americans and American english versed foreigners tend to do that, although not always...

...I usually just grin and bear it these days... it's not worth the effort to correct them. lol

[doppelgaenger]

I had to call her bluff.

[vashti]

For the record, I'm American, I don't care where English originated, and I adore Aussie accents AND their slang.

[doppelgaenger]

Anyway, what really annoyed me today... in one of my classes, the majority (80%!!!!) of the students failed an exam. More than half of those who failed were given less than 20%! What really annoyed me though is that the professor totally vindicated herself. It's apparently the lazy students' faults because they didn't study hard enough, LOL. She went on a tangent today, and gave an entire lecture today (50 minutes long) on what kind of work ethic a student have, and how the students in the class (60 of them) are lazy. No, rule of thumb for educators, when the majority fails, the educator has failed. I hate this professor. You ask her a question about something, and she knows the answer all right, it just 'escaped her memory.'