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Being English-as-in-UK I often run into situations where my dry/sarcastic humour completely fails to be clear to USians. Then again from the UK POV the leftpon
by mst 2y ago
Being English-as-in-UK I often run into situations where my dry/sarcastic humour completely fails to be clear to USians.
Then again from the UK POV the leftpondians barely count as native English speakers anyway ;)
- Brybry 2y agoYet you'll find sources that claim spoken American English is closer to historical British English, because of some aspects like rhoticity. [1] [1] https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-p...
- mst 2y agoThose are all claims about the accent (my understanding of said claims is basically "sounds reasonable but also I have no idea what I'm talking about"). I was more thinking about the words/grammar/idiom etc. (also as a Lancastrian I find e.g. Deep Somerset barely comprehensible, especially when the speaker is a few pints in, but their wording is still usually closer to mine than the USians' is)
- euroderf 2y ago(So I guess "Rightpondia" would be Airstrip One?)
- mst 2y agoWe Have Always Been At War With Eurasia.
- tomrod 2y agoSo strange. As a non-brit, every comment I read uses John Oliver or Diane Morgan as an internal monologue and is incredibly witty and sarcastic. To be fair, I'm probably less informed for doing so.
- mst 2y agoYou would likely be better with, say, Ian Hislop for me in terms of sarcasm, though while he's definitely a wit, no matter how hard I try I only ever seem to get half way.
- gilleain 2y agoHmm. As a born Britisher I used to have this attitude until I read 'Mother Tongue' by Bill Bryson. He's an American who moved to the UK and has a good handle on the differences between American and British english.