Originally posted by MixoHugh Laurie is amazing. I always watch House and have yet to hear a slip-up. He sounds more american than most americans I know.
It doesn't help when TV shows in the US have characters trying English accents who just speak like cockneys did 100 years ago. Presumably Brits talking American sound fake too? How does "House" (Hugh Laurie) sound to the home audience?
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Originally posted by AThousandYoungNow here we have someone attempting to answer the question posed in the actual thread. What an interesting concept.
Some say it may be derived from the phrase "by Our Lady", a sacrilegious invocation of the Virgin Mary. The abbreviated form "By'r Lady" is common in Shakespeare's plays around the turn of the 17th century, and interestingly Jonathan Swift about 100 years later writes both "it grows by'r Lady cold" and "it was bloody hot walking to-day" [1] suggest edia.org/wiki/Bloody
Originally posted by AThousandYoungWhat a load of bollocks.
Some say it may be derived from the phrase "by Our Lady", a sacrilegious invocation of the Virgin Mary. The abbreviated form "By'r Lady" is common in Shakespeare's plays around the turn of the 17th century, and interestingly Jonathan Swift about 100 years later writes both "it grows by'r Lady cold" and "it was bloody hot walking to-day" [1] suggest ...[text shortened]... edia.org/wiki/Bloody
Originally posted by reader1107Is it because US film makers identify the British as "baddies" so Germans and Russians are given British accents to scare the audience? Is it social conditioning to fear enslavement by the British monarchy and thus worship the government as heroic guardians of liberty?
Worse -- in many movies, all foreigners speak with a British accent no matter where they're from. If the characters are supposed to be German or Russian or Norwegian, why do they have a British accent?????
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Originally posted by MixoAmericans are thick.
Is it because US film makers identify the British as "baddies" so Germans and Russians are given British accents to scare the audience? Is it social conditioning to fear enslavement by the British monarchy and thus worship the government as heroic guardians of liberty?
They write 'alot' a lot and pronounce all monosyllabic words with two. They begin most conversations with 'Yo!' and try to insert 'dude' (pronounced dood) into most of their sentences.
And they spend all their money on bottles of water and fresh air (imported).
Originally posted by ark13They've got nothing better to do with their language.
It's not as if what they're describing actually is bloody. And I don't really think being called "bloody awful" is any worse than being called "awful." Since it's not an insult, nor does it help in descriptions, what is the point? I suppose it's a synonym of the word "really" or "very."
Regardless, I can see it causing some trouble.
Let's set the ...[text shortened]... murder, more innocent people could be killed before the night ends.
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Originally posted by xsTrue. But there is no actual English equivalent of 'like'.
Like you don't know what you're talking about.
Bloody you don't know what you're talkin' 'bout.
That doesn't work.
The American equivalent would get you modded.
Dim Yanks use it everywhere as an intercalante to make up for their lack of imagination.
e.g.
'Like dim Yanks...'
'Dim like Yanks...'
'Dim Yanks like use...'
'...yanks use like...'
'...use it like everywhere...'
And so on.
Originally posted by BowmannThere are plenty of thick Brits, just as there are plenty of thick Americans. Look in the mirror for one example.
Americans are thick.
They write 'alot' a lot and pronounce all monosyllabic words with two. They begin most conversations with 'Yo!' and try to insert 'dude' (pronounced dood) into most of their sentences.
And they spend all their money on bottles of water and fresh air (imported).
Who writes 'alot'? Not me.
Give me an example of pronouncing a monosyllabic word with two syllables. Puh-leeze?
I don't know anyone who starts their sentences with 'Yo!', but then I don't associate with idiots.
Thanks for the pronunciation of a common english word, even though it wasn't needed. We all know long u sounds just like a double o. Thanks for assuming we didn't know this.
I don't spend all my money on bottles of water. I also have a mortgage and a car payment to make. I suppose the English prefer cancer to buying clean water. And I don't know anyone who buys air, fresh or not, imported or not.
In future, try to keep your hyperbolic, xenophobic comments to yourself. You certainly enjoy them far more than we do.