New
Zealand, Australian, Irish, Scottish, and even to add insult to injury English,
accents are so unintelligible to Americans that television programmes are being subtitled for the benefit
of U.S audiences.
All in
misspelt AmericaniSed English!
What a sad
indictment English is being ripped apart by the Discovery Channel and trashy American
movies.
Historically
Americans have adopted the Queen’s English and then systematically set about
destroying the world’s most popular language by bastardiSing ‘pigeoning’ it into the gutter.
Even words
like ‘centre’ and ‘metre’ adopted from French get
fucked-over by Americans.
Latin words
like sulphur cheapened to sulfur.
All the
other countries where English is spoken are happy with its phonetic
construction – except for the US which thinks it now owns the language and
arrogantly dismantling it word by word, gutter Hollywood movie by gutter
Hollywood movie.
Americans are
now so far out on a linguistic limb they are unable to even grasp English’s nuances
when it comes out of the mouths of another speaker.
The
historic divergence from the root means Americans can’t even understand anyone else with an accent they aren't use to!
I certainly
have no problem hearing what other English-speakers have to say, this is
reciprocated in listeners when the words come out of my mouth, spaced vowels
and all.
Television series
from the U.S do not have subtitles here in New Zealand.
If the Queen’s
English is increasing now a foreign language to Americans, requires drastic subtitling - why don’t they simply
drop-it altogether and create their own language?
The U.S can then
be stuck with backward Imperial Units and its own pigeon language which no one
else cares about, similar to its myopic sporting pursuits.
If spoken
English the rest of the planet uses isn’t good enough for the U.S public to grasp then
stop employing it.
Stop dismantling its roots and come up with your own bloody
language!
A hybrid
lexicon of gangster, Hispanic, Texting and a sub-branch of bastardiSed English that is ironically already
being spoken on the streets of Crompton this very day.
5 comments:
The U.S. has the majority of English speakers in the world -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population.
It also has a greater homogeneity of accent than England does. (Don't believe me? Go have a conversation with a Glaswegian and a Cockney and tell me I'm a liar.)
On the principal that the identity of a language is defined by the majority, America now defines English, and idiots sputtering about the way Americans sound are merely speaking a regional dialect; if anyone is going to get a new language, it's those outside the country.
Your time would be better spent yelling at the local kids to get off your lawn.
Oh I see, since the majority of French speakers are located in their former colonies then Congo as the most populous country should now dictate how the mother tongue is spoken?
Using your logic then all English speakers should sound like Indians.
But at least Indians understand other English speakers,
looks out window:
<<<notices English has been the dominant language, here, for 2oo years more than ChristChurch
<<< notices the spellings of American English you are whining about were formalized before even one person spoke English in NZ.
The Queen's English is what is exactly ---and only ---spoken in English-speaking Oceania ? right
Perhaps this is meant as an example of one of subtleties, ( irony beyond irony ? ) you mentioned, lost to coarse American ears. You forgot the subtitles.
Formalized is spelt formaliSed.
I rest my case.
Conversely, the Discovery Network's TLC has a show called "Honey Boo Boo" wherein the (real-life) characters are such morons that their American language must be subtitled to render it intelligible to other American-speakers.
I've also wondered how the British teach pronounciation of the letter "R". It's "Ahh" as in "bahh" and "cahh"...
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