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Originally Posted by The Original King
We don’t speak English here. Trust me. We’re supposed to. That’s what we tell everyone. But we made up our own fucked-in-the-ass version called American. It’s a language of slang. Maybe one day it will be recognized as a real language… QUOTE]
That's funny, and I always suspected. But really, every country that speaks english has a different take on it, may just not as aggresively fucked-up as American.
I remember reading a sentence once that stated: You might be Canadian if you understand the folowing sentence
"Pass me a serviette, I spilled some poutine on the chesterfield."
So, Canadian is just as bastardized, we just have the eternal struggle between England and France living in every sentence.
However, we do know how to spell! Flavour has a U init. Axe ends with an E. Come on, don't be so fuggin' lazy!
Peace,
Pierre
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Man, I was around Toronto around a couple years ago with a friend of mine and we went to a KFC for lunch. He asked for mashed potatoes and gravy as a side, and the girl at the register looked at us like we were crazy. They did have that poutine stuff (wasn't half bad). Up until then, I didn't realize I was in a foregn country. The accents weren't even that bad, and there didn't seem to be much different slang than in the US (Michigan specifically). But from reading alot, I have gotten in the habit of spelling colour and a few similar words in the British way. Just doesn't look right otherwise.