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To be honest as italian this hits me deeper than I'd like to admit, but it's also one of the things that some british people appear stupid to me, complaining ab
by lnxg33k1 5y ago
To be honest as italian this hits me deeper than I'd like to admit, but it's also one of the things that some british people appear stupid to me, complaining about american english, not being their english, like, if that's their native language, haven't you realised the amount of ocean between the countries, but other than that, isn't every population allowed to have their language?
But even with accents, like sometimes I meet some british and complain about my italian-accent-spoken-british, does it even make sense, have you ever listened to yourself speaking italian?
I think british (londoners mostly) are mostly introverts because they really create a lot of un-existing issues for themselves it's really that sometimes you feel scared of doing anything because it could be slighly wrong
- systemvoltage 5y agoI wrote a PR release for our startup and one of the British contractors volunteered to double-check the grammar. Oh boy, I got back was a massive annotated word document with red marks everywhere. I promptly accepted everything as if nothing had happened - I really do not care about American english (I am American) or British english and wanted to spend zero further effort on going back and forth. Even when accepting without qualms, he sneered at me about how American my english was, while completely unaware about the exact points you made! That said, I prefer British english for the most part but just being immersed in a land thousands of miles away, it is hard to not assimilate.