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Agelastus

#76350
October 05, 2020, 12:06:25 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 05, 2020, 12:02:24 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 05, 2020, 11:55:17 AM
I looked for Merican on that map and didn't see it.  Are we: unwelcome now  :(

When did American become a language?

When Webster got a bee in his bonnet about spelling?
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The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

celedhring

#76351
October 05, 2020, 12:07:08 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 05, 2020, 12:02:24 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 05, 2020, 11:55:17 AM
I looked for Merican on that map and didn't see it.  Are we: unwelcome now  :(

When did American become a language?

Kid you not, I've seen movie screenplays (serious ones) with characters labelled as speaking either "American" or "British".  :lol:

Syt

#76352
October 05, 2020, 12:38:46 PM
In scripts it could be relevant for the accent of the role, though?
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grumbler

#76353
October 05, 2020, 01:49:56 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 05, 2020, 12:02:24 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 05, 2020, 11:55:17 AM
I looked for Merican on that map and didn't see it.  Are we: unwelcome now  :(

When did American become a language?

When Americans started to say that they "could care less."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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Eddie Teach

#76354
October 05, 2020, 02:08:19 PM
I could care less, it'd just be really difficult.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Tonitrus

#76355
October 05, 2020, 03:16:33 PM
Quote from: grumbler on October 05, 2020, 01:49:56 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 05, 2020, 12:02:24 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 05, 2020, 11:55:17 AM
I looked for Merican on that map and didn't see it.  Are we: unwelcome now  :(

When did American become a language?

When Americans started to say that they "could care less."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

https://youtu.be/EAYUuspQ6BY?t=106

Eddie Teach

#76356
October 05, 2020, 03:40:36 PM
Quote from: grumbler on October 05, 2020, 01:49:56 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 05, 2020, 12:02:24 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 05, 2020, 11:55:17 AM
I looked for Merican on that map and didn't see it.  Are we: unwelcome now  :(

When did American become a language?

When Americans started to say that they "could care less."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

We do pronounce the h in herbs though, at least in KFC commercials.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

merithyn

#76357
October 05, 2020, 03:44:33 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on October 05, 2020, 03:40:36 PM
Quote from: grumbler on October 05, 2020, 01:49:56 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 05, 2020, 12:02:24 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 05, 2020, 11:55:17 AM
I looked for Merican on that map and didn't see it.  Are we: unwelcome now  :(

When did American become a language?

When Americans started to say that they "could care less."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

We do pronounce the h in herbs though, at least in KFC commercials.

Speak for yourself. :mad:
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

The Brain

#76358
October 05, 2020, 03:51:50 PM
What about the k in kerb?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Tonitrus

#76359
October 05, 2020, 03:57:56 PM
We pronounce "bork bork bork" the same from Swedish.

Eddie Teach

#76360
October 05, 2020, 04:05:35 PM
Quote from: merithyn on October 05, 2020, 03:44:33 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on October 05, 2020, 03:40:36 PM
Quote from: grumbler on October 05, 2020, 01:49:56 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 05, 2020, 12:02:24 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 05, 2020, 11:55:17 AM
I looked for Merican on that map and didn't see it.  Are we: unwelcome now  :(

When did American become a language?

When Americans started to say that they "could care less."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

We do pronounce the h in herbs though, at least in KFC commercials.

Speak for yourself. :mad:

What are you, French?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

HisMajestyBOB

#76361
October 05, 2020, 04:33:50 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on October 05, 2020, 03:57:56 PM
We pronounce "bork bork bork" the same from Swedish.

Way more efficient to pronounce all words the same.
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garbon

#76362
October 05, 2020, 05:14:13 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on October 05, 2020, 04:05:35 PM
Quote from: merithyn on October 05, 2020, 03:44:33 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on October 05, 2020, 03:40:36 PM
Quote from: grumbler on October 05, 2020, 01:49:56 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 05, 2020, 12:02:24 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 05, 2020, 11:55:17 AM
I looked for Merican on that map and didn't see it.  Are we: unwelcome now  :(

When did American become a language?

When Americans started to say that they "could care less."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

We do pronounce the h in herbs though, at least in KFC commercials.

Speak for yourself. :mad:

What are you, French?

What are you, British?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Valmy

#76363
October 05, 2020, 05:14:52 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on October 05, 2020, 04:05:35 PM
What are you, French?

If only :weep:

But I still say 'erbs because I am not British or something.
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Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Josquius

#76364
October 05, 2020, 05:21:49 PM
An American saying erbs is like an Australian saying g'day.
Say it herbs and you are almost certainly a spy.
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