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Another interesting one people don't notice is counting money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g87HVlu55mQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g87HVlu55mQ I saw t

Another interesting one people don't notice is counting money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g87HVlu55mQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g87HVlu55mQ I saw this video and didn't think much of it until I saw my friend counting money the Asian way. He didn't know that wasn't how Americans typically did it - I guess you pick up a lot of little things like this by watching your parents.

miluge 8y ago
I felt the same when moving to Romania, they have a different way of counting money compared to France. I barely paid attention to it until one of the ladies from shop told me. Cultural difference is found in a lot of small things you do in your daily life, it's just like that scene from Inglourious Bastards when he is showing the German 3 and the British 3.
- CosmicShadow 8y ago
  Yeah, there are lots of little things out there. My wife and I were just discussing how as Canadians, we don't perceive ourselves to have any accent and sound just like "normal" people on American TV, however after she speaks with US based co-workers or folks she meets when she travels, they instantly know after only a simple Hello or maybe 3 words that she is Canadian (and they point it out!). There are just certain words that we pronounce just a tiny bit different that we don't notice because we can say it the Canadian or American way interchangeably, but to Americans who aren't inundated with Canadian TV like we are with American media, we believe they can instantly detect any deviation from their culture's norms. It's kind of maddening because we can't detect the other way around nearly as easy. She said she'd been caught on words such as Hello, Syrup and Being, to name a few. Perhaps it was just that she said Hello in a happier tone or with different emphasis? I'm not sure, that one seemed ridiculous. Imagine trying to change all those words you don't even realize you are saying different unless you repeat it with the person multiple times.
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  - carlmr 8y ago
    >She said she'd been caught on words such as Hello, Syrup and Being, to name a few. Perhaps it was just that she said Hello in a happier tone or with different emphasis? I'm not sure, that one seemed ridiculous. I lived in Canada for a bit, and I would have guessed sooorry, tomooorow, oout, aboout. At least that's what Ontarians sound like to me. They really stretch those o sounds.
    - CosmicShadow 8y ago
      I've lived in Ontario my whole life, North Western and South Western and I've never heard anyone sound like that. It seems like that's such a stereotypical Canadian accent, but I've never heard it and assumed it only existed in the maritimes, although on my recent trip to Halifax I did not hear it. Maybe it's a bit longer and I don't notice, but at least not like the overly portrayed version on TV.
      - carlmr 8y ago
        It's very distinct from what you hear on TV. TV doesn't even do the right sound, nevermind the length, but it's definitely noticeable for an American. It has some similarity to some oh the northern mid-west accents.
        CosmicShadow 8y ago
        It's just so interesting to hear that I have an immediately identifiable accent when I don't even think I have one, so weird. It feels like you have a competitive advantage that I cannot easily copy or get back at you with :) Perhaps this is also how folks with "real" accents think too (that they can't hear it), but I gotta feel like they can recognize that they sound different from the "people on TV". My wife did however tell me that in a phone conversation with a US colleague that she immediately heard herself sound obviously Canadian after saying something, but I think it was more phrase based, a question followed by "eh?". "Ok, I definitely heard it that time" she immediately said.
wp381640 8y ago
If you spend time in casinos you notice the counting money differences. There are also occupational differences, and differences in how wallets are used, back pocket vs front pocket vs top pocket, if money is taken out of a wallet or counted inside the wallet, if money clips are used, if the money is folded etc. I sat at a poker table once with a guy who could swear he could spot drug dealers and money launderers by the way they fold and count their money by counting the roll out and also throw money vs placing it when putting it on the table
carlmr 8y ago
So, I also count money like an American (although the video didn't show German counting).

miluge 8y ago

I felt the same when moving to Romania, they have a different way of counting money compared to France. I barely paid attention to it until one of the ladies from shop told me. Cultural difference is found in a lot of small things you do in your daily life, it's just like that scene from Inglourious Bastards when he is showing the German 3 and the British 3.

CosmicShadow 8y ago
Yeah, there are lots of little things out there. My wife and I were just discussing how as Canadians, we don't perceive ourselves to have any accent and sound just like "normal" people on American TV, however after she speaks with US based co-workers or folks she meets when she travels, they instantly know after only a simple Hello or maybe 3 words that she is Canadian (and they point it out!). There are just certain words that we pronounce just a tiny bit different that we don't notice because we can say it the Canadian or American way interchangeably, but to Americans who aren't inundated with Canadian TV like we are with American media, we believe they can instantly detect any deviation from their culture's norms. It's kind of maddening because we can't detect the other way around nearly as easy. She said she'd been caught on words such as Hello, Syrup and Being, to name a few. Perhaps it was just that she said Hello in a happier tone or with different emphasis? I'm not sure, that one seemed ridiculous. Imagine trying to change all those words you don't even realize you are saying different unless you repeat it with the person multiple times.
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- carlmr 8y ago
  >She said she'd been caught on words such as Hello, Syrup and Being, to name a few. Perhaps it was just that she said Hello in a happier tone or with different emphasis? I'm not sure, that one seemed ridiculous. I lived in Canada for a bit, and I would have guessed sooorry, tomooorow, oout, aboout. At least that's what Ontarians sound like to me. They really stretch those o sounds.
  - CosmicShadow 8y ago
    I've lived in Ontario my whole life, North Western and South Western and I've never heard anyone sound like that. It seems like that's such a stereotypical Canadian accent, but I've never heard it and assumed it only existed in the maritimes, although on my recent trip to Halifax I did not hear it. Maybe it's a bit longer and I don't notice, but at least not like the overly portrayed version on TV.
    - carlmr 8y ago
      It's very distinct from what you hear on TV. TV doesn't even do the right sound, nevermind the length, but it's definitely noticeable for an American. It has some similarity to some oh the northern mid-west accents.
      - CosmicShadow 8y ago
        It's just so interesting to hear that I have an immediately identifiable accent when I don't even think I have one, so weird. It feels like you have a competitive advantage that I cannot easily copy or get back at you with :) Perhaps this is also how folks with "real" accents think too (that they can't hear it), but I gotta feel like they can recognize that they sound different from the "people on TV". My wife did however tell me that in a phone conversation with a US colleague that she immediately heard herself sound obviously Canadian after saying something, but I think it was more phrase based, a question followed by "eh?". "Ok, I definitely heard it that time" she immediately said.

wp381640 8y ago

If you spend time in casinos you notice the counting money differences. There are also occupational differences, and differences in how wallets are used, back pocket vs front pocket vs top pocket, if money is taken out of a wallet or counted inside the wallet, if money clips are used, if the money is folded etc. I sat at a poker table once with a guy who could swear he could spot drug dealers and money launderers by the way they fold and count their money by counting the roll out and also throw money vs placing it when putting it on the table

carlmr 8y ago

So, I also count money like an American (although the video didn't show German counting).