>I still remember how puzzled I was the first time one of

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>>65347291
jesus christ.

>>65347291
Why are you the only US state that gets their own flag?

>i don't have an accent, other people have accents
that's deep

>>65347291
>are Americans retarded?
Most of us are, yeah.

>This realization shocked me more than it would have had my ignorance been only linguistic. But embedded in my response, although I didn’t realize it at the time, was my belief that America is the industry standard for the world. Not just for English but in everything: politics, power, sports, entertainment, finance, you name it. It’s America’s world and everyone else is just playing in it.
damn

>>65347291
only reason the world speaks English is because of us get your shit together canuck

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>>65348573
>only reason the world speaks English is because of us get your shit together canuck
are you literally retarded

>>65347291
>are Americans retarded?

yes

Americans going abroad really looks like 5 years old.

>>65347291
>“What accent?” I said. “We don’t have accents.
It gets even worse.

The snooty britfags run around talking about the "queens english" as though speaking like a real fag is a real thing.

>>65347291
God damn it yanks.

>>65355333
>God damn it
FOY

>>65348481
>>65347291
There is nothing wrong with this

>>65347291
>different cultures behave differently
REALLY made me think this time

>>65348481
That explains the attitude you find from yanks on here.

>>65347291

Test.

>>65347291
I had the same realization too, but I was 8.

>>65355789
It's a nice attitude though

>>65347291
It is so unfair

>dumb shart in marts think they are top of the world

Lol

>>65356012
they must be retards, kek

>>65347291
We don't though. American English is the planet's lingua franca and gold standard to which all other forms of English are compared. When you speak English, you are unconsciously imitating American English and thus have an accent. When I speak English, I am naturally speaking American English and thus have no accent.

>>65351675
girl on the left is absolutely butifel

>>65355841
kek, this

My View of Americans was so bad, I thought it couldn't get any worse. But Here hr is, the man who worden er my view.
Holy shit this man is ignorant.

>>65356140
Sorry but we get to decide what the standard version is. Your opinion is worth fuck all

t. English English speaker

>>65356607
>Here he is, the man who worsened my view.*
Dutch autocorrect is a bitch.

I hope you all know this is a satire
and I share this board with you lot, oh boy

>>65356654
>Sorry but we get to decide what the standard version is. Your opinion is worth fuck all
England is an irrelevant sub-nation of an American vassal state whose place in the world has diminished steadily over the past century. The United States made American English the world's lingua franca, not England or the UK (which is why the world doesn't speak "English English"), and therefore will decide the correct manner in which English is spoken.

t. American English speaker whom you are subservient to

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>England is an irrelevant sub-nation of an American vassal state whose place in the world has diminished steadily over the past century. The United States made American English the world's lingua franca, not England or the UK (which is why the world doesn't speak "English English"), and therefore will decide the correct manner in which English is spoken.

>t. American English speaker whom you are subservient to

>>65347633
Texas gets one as well

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>>65356140
SHART

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>>65357270
Kek, nope. You wish. The English we learn in schools is the one from England, m9. That's the standard.

yes they are

>I am reminded of my own recent run-in with a traffic cop. While I currently live in the state if Texas, where Ms. Bland was pulled over, my incident occurred on the other side of the world in a place widely considered friendly and accommodating: New Zealand. As a visitor in any foreign country, I never expect my rights as an American to supersede those of the nation where I am traveling. But things just didn’t seem right when I was given a mandatory road-side breathalyzer test, just because I was speeding.

>Now this test would have been warranted if I had, say, rammed into a sheep when it wandered into the road, and a cop had found me slumped over the wheel of my car with my speech slurred, my eyes bloodshot and a pile of empty beer bottles in the front seat. That’s what we in America call “probable cause.”

>Too bad there wasn’t a Facebook page about police alcohol check points in Timaru, the small town where I was pulled over. Had I been able to consult one, I might have avoided a breach of my civil rights.

>I was pulled over after an officer clocked me for driving too fast through a speed trap in the center of Timaru.

>I was informed that in New Zealand, everyone who is caught speeding must take a breathalyzer test.

>Fortunately, the United States does not use the New Zealand model of police entrapment to catch drunk drivers. And, to my benefit, we also don’t extradite our citizens back to foreign countries where they have violated the speed limit. New Zealand law enforcement may have collected my DNA through a breathalyzer test, but they failed to collect my money for the traffic citation before I left the country. Since I can’t find the ticket here at home, am I the one who’s bending the rules?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janis-powers/he-gave-me-a-breathalyzer_b_7857924.html

>>65347291

jesus fucking christ! Immagine this man stumbling through a good chunk of his entire life with this sort of mindset. He actualy feels at the end that he discovered some sort of huge self help secret or something!

This article explains everything! next time someone asks why something batshit insane is occuring in the u.s. and not anywhere else i'm just gonna show them this article.

>>65347291
>huffpo

No thanks lol

>>65356654
Lmao a little rock in the North Atlantic and the people there think they're nearly as relevant as us

English is ours you fucking idiot

>>65364076
It speaks to huffpo's readership which are the group of Enlighted Civilization Bearers spreading American SJW cancer to the rest of the world with no self reflection. Their readship is who you have to blame for BLM in the UK, complaints about blackface in Brazil and Spain, and terms like white privledge being applied to Poland.

>>65357270
>The United States made American English the world's lingua franca, not England or the UK (which is why the world doesn't speak "English English"), and therefore will decide the correct manner in which English is spoken.

This is called "begging the question"

>>65347291
>are Americans retarded?

The vast majority, yes.

>>65364262
>flag

>>65364287
Yes, thank you for noticing it big boy.

>>65364306
For you.

>>65347291
>>65347573
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>>65353639
>>65355333
From a linguistic standpoint, this is closer to reality than claiming that today's British English is the "true" accent. Rhotic accents were the historically more prevalent varieties; as far as speech sounds go, English in the 1600s was more phonologically alike today's American and Canadian English. It was the English in England that drifted.

t. linguist

>>65360886
>And in New Zealand, their approach to catching drunk drivers gives law enforcement the authority to act based on the assumption that people are guilty before proven innocent. It flies in the face of the principles outlined in numerous amendments to the American Constitution
lmao

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>>65347291
Probably

>>65360886
>Cites American laws as a reason why she shouldn't pay a fine in another sovereign country.
> Doesn't acknowledge reckless driving as probably cause for impaired cognition brought upon by alcohol.

Jesus fucking christ what a purulent sore on humanity this woman is.

>>65364321
was getting simplified part of your plan?

>>65364326
All the English-speaking American settlers were literally bullied out of Britain for being too weird and annoying, and they were all lower-class provincial freaks as well. No one cares if their dialect was more ''''authentic'''' or not

>>65364410
We're crashing this language with no survivors

>>65364413
>On 18 February 1813, George Canning, a former treasurer of the navy and foreign secretary, told the House of Commons that "the sacred spell of the invincibility of the British Navy was broken." 6 John Croker, the influential secretary to the Admiralty, thought it necessary to publish the "Letter on the Subject of the Naval War with America" in defense of the government. In response to a sense of crisis, the Admiralty both built up its Halifax-based squadron and issued an order that it had not felt obliged to promulgate in the case of the conflict with the French. On 10 July 1813, Croker informed station commanders-in-chief that the Admiralty "did not conceive that any of His Majesty's frigates should attempt to engage, single handed, the large class of American ships; which though they may be called frigates, are of a size, complement and weight of metal much beyond that class, and more resembling line of battle ships. In the event of one of His Majesty's frigates under your orders falling in with one of these ships, her captain should endeavour, in the first instance, to secure the retreat of His Majesty's ship, but if he finds that he has advantage in sailing, he should endeavour to manoeuvre, and keep company with her, without coming to action, in the hope of falling in with some other of His Majesty's ships with whose assistance the enemy might be attacked with a reasonable hope of success.

But why are Americans so fucking nasal?

>>65365621
The rood they wat, bad Health care, propaganda, shit education, you name.

>>65365621
hurts to speak deeper

>>65365955
The food they eat*

>>65364326
that doesn't mean one or the other is or is not an accent. it literally has nothing to do with it.

>>65347291
>huffpo

This is like me reading a Daily Mail article and laughing at how stupid Brits are.

>>65365621
Many brits are too. The black guy from IT Crowd or Matthew Holness. Dunno if they are impersonating an accent, though.

>>65357270
Foriegners generally learn british english m8

>>65366512
Here too

>>65367020
Yeah it seems to be the norm in europe

>>65366512
So it actually took this cunt three years of living in Korea to reach the epiphany that different cultures have different customs. And he is proud enough of this monumental achievement to write and publish a book about it. Well, it takes all kinds I guess.

>>65366512
They tried to teach me British English in school, but USA's influence is stronger than any amount of education. Sorry lads, but I have to agree with the yanks on this one, that's the defacto language, you are all speaking accents.

>>65347291

americans are so adorable

>>65366512
British spelling yes but they sound closer to Americans

Aussie accent is best accent 2bh

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>>65367814
Even I don't understand this

>>65357270
I'm imagining some obese cheetos stained scooter riding abomination typing thus

>>65367779
No, not really. All the differant nationalities Have a own distinct accent, and when they speak fluent english its almost Always British.

I dont know whats worse, those retarded amerisharts who are surprised that we have refrigerators here or the retarded liberals who use the generic "Europe" as an oriebtalised example of what America should be.

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>>65347291
>today I realized people who are different from me are able to think!

Lmao classic SJW

>I still remember how puzzled I was the first time one of my team members referred to my “American foreskin.”
>“What foreskin?” I said. “We don’t have foreskins.
>Brits have foreskins. Australians have foreskins. Even Canadians. We don’t.”
>To me, the British foreskin is a deviation from the norm—foreskin-free American

>>65364326
To add, one of the oldest accents still in use for the English language is the traditional Southern Drall, which was derived from the cavaliers and dates back to at least the 17th century.

>>65365621
English as a whole forms most of its sounds at the front of the mouth, which has the side effect of making the person sound more nasally than if they pronounced their words near the back of the throat. In American English, this phenomena is exasperated due to many of our particular variants in pronunciation.

>>65364326
>>65368606
hate this meme

>>65368590
Howling

>>65366512
It really depends on the country. American countries generally teach American English, European ones British. Everywhere else there is about a 50/50 split

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>>65347291

woah, so american accents <i>aren't</i> the right ones?

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>>65356425
>that brflag
Kek

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>I Asked A Korean Person To Pass Me a Napkin — And I Never Expected What Happened Next


Darn son, everything must be clickbait

>>65347291
>>Brits have accents. Australians have accents. Even Canadians. We don’t.”
This is the objetive truth though. She might be a cunt for saying it, but it doesn't make her any less right.

>>65356425
good streak friendo

>>65366338
which is exactly what you do

>>65366512
I've only had English teacher who tried to teach us British accent. All the class did, was make fun of her accent 24/7.

Later on, she pretty much gave up on it.

>>65368878
It really isn't. There doesn't need to be some definitive de jure version of English, especially since English isn't phonetic. American-English itself isn't even unified.

>>65347291
The only thing worse than idiots who think we don't have an accent is the average Europeans who say "Damn what the professional linguists say" and say we have 2 accents and 1 dialect

>>65368878
Fuck off ameriboo
If you invent a language, you dont speak a accent of it

>>65355481
prefering your own culture is fine, not realizing others might not indicates some mental flaws

>>65347291
>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-i-learned-to-stop-asking-koreans-to-pass-me-a-napkin_us_57e2c6b2e4b05d3737be52fc?section=us_travel
i got cancer just from reading this idiot

>>65369290
You are uncharacteristically aggressive Netherlands. Also, languages aren´t ususally invented.