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Rashad said:
It's PANTS! Trousers is such a desi thing to say. ugh.
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Wellllll... That is because the British ruled the Indian subcontinent for almost 100 years. And they managed to pick the proper name for things, i.e. trousers :)
 
Mujaheedah said:
^Its 'PANTS' in South/Latin America...& we were once ruled by Brits..:skeleton:
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:O The British Empire obviously didn't do a good job on you guys!! :p

Either that or the influence from America is just tooo great:hmm:
 
^^Mayb coz we ran them out of our country!!:skeleton:

NO AMERICAN influence here either!!

We're an INDEPENDENT nation!!










im gone from this thread...its too+o(




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tw009 said:
^ haha.. and I find that British people have a funny accent
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Talking about accents i have noticed that people in Britain can perfectly understand American accent but why does people in America or its neighbours find us little harder to understand even though our accent is much plainer?
 
Ar-RaYYan said:
Talking about accents i have noticed that people in Britain can perfectly understand American accent but why does people in America or its neighbours find us little harder to understand even though our accent is much plainer?
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One of life's mysteries!! Along with bigfoot and the loch ness monster...
 
Ar-RaYYan said:
Talking about accents i have noticed that people in Britain can perfectly understand American accent but why does people in America or its neighbours find us little harder to understand even though our accent is much plainer?
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A lot will depend on what region or even state a person id from. The people in the New Englsnd states speak very similar to the British English, but the further you get from the New England states the less it sounds like British English and the greater difficulty there is for the people to understand British English. A person from Southwest Texas can hardly understand somebody from Massachusetts It is almost justified to say that in North America we speak at least 50 different forms of English and the Canadians have quite a few variations also.

I suspect you would have difficulty in understanding the English spoken in Lafayette, Louisiana


Here is Justin Wilson from Louisiana. The people in Lafayette really do speak like this:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjIJfr2yBWQ[/media]
 
Woodrow said:
A lot will depend on what region or even state a person id from. The people in the New Englsnd states speak very similar to the British English, but the further you get from the New England states the less it sounds like British English and the greater difficulty there is for the people to understand British English. A person from Southwest Texas can hardly understand somebody from Massachusetts It is almost justified to say that in North America we speak at least 50 different forms of English and the Canadians have quite a few variations also.

I suspect you would have difficulty in understanding the English spoken in Lafayette, Louisiana
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But the boston accent is nothing like the English accent. And that's in New England? Actually, the only slight similarity might be the dropping of the "r" and that's only with RP (received pronounciation) really.

Actually, I've always thought the Californian accent (which is as far away from New England as you can get!) to be the most neutral and understandable.
 
Rashad said:
It's PANTS! Trousers is such a desi thing to say. ugh.

This is very minor compared to how much you brits CUSS! You guys cuss like no OTHER!
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This is true. British people swear much much more than Americans. My cousins from there cuss like its nothing. A hafiz from england came to lead taraweeh a few years back and he cussed a lot. It's ridiculous.
 
Rashad said:
It's PANTS! Trousers is such a desi thing to say. ugh.
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Trousers.
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Pants.
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If anything, 'Pants' is more of a desi thing to say because in, say, Urdu, the word for trousers is 'Pent'. :p

This is very minor compared to how much you brits CUSS! You guys cuss like no OTHER!
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Probably.

I personally am pretty mild-mannered.

Woodrow said:
A lot will depend on what region or even state a person id from. The people in the New Englsnd states speak very similar to the British English, but the further you get from the New England states the less it sounds like British English and the greater difficulty there is for the people to understand British English. A person from Southwest Texas can hardly understand somebody from Massachusetts It is almost justified to say that in North America we speak at least 50 different forms of English and the Canadians have quite a few variations also.
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Yeah.

In the UK I have trouble understanding Geordies sometimes. Usually because I'm trying to keep a straight face.

I'm sorry, but some accents are just inherently funny. Geordies, Scousers, Brummies...

Thick Scottish accents are a little difficult sometimes. Especially if they sound like Rab C Nesbitt.

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What the...?

I suspect you would have difficulty in understanding the English spoken in Lafayette, Louisiana


Here is Justin Wilson from Louisiana. The people in Lafayette really do speak like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjIJfr2yBWQ
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I could understand most of that. Now and then he seemed to mumble, but the dialect is okay if you pay attention. I guarantee!
 
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Malaysian here and I speak and spell the British way. Proud of it too.

Americans spell everything the simplest way .. I suppose because they are lazy ...

Hehe .. kidding! ;D
 
Shakoor15 said:
This is true. British people swear much much more than Americans. My cousins from there cuss like its nothing. A hafiz from england came to lead taraweeh a few years back and he cussed a lot. It's ridiculous.
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:sl:

Also another thing which a few people have mentioned is that Americans tend not to tell you things to your face or tend not to tell anyone straight up what they think of you whereas the British are more straight up about things. Can't really confirm that because ive never really known an American properly. Maybe some Americans here can be 'straight up' and tell me if this is true?

:wa:
 
Hamza81 said:
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Also another thing which a few people have mentioned is that Americans tend not to tell you things to your face or tend not to tell anyone straight up what they think of you whereas the British are more straight up about things. Can't really confirm that because ive never really known an American properly. Maybe some Americans here can be 'straight up' and tell me if this is true?

:wa:
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Depends on where the American is from. New Yorkers tend to give short, sharp opinions that are often quite blunt. Texans often give long slow, drawn out descriptions that may not be immediately understood. In other words a New yorker will call a person a derogatory name while the Texan would say "W'all podner when y'all mosey back to the kennel tonight, may your mother bite your leg."
 
personally im a big fan of slang. caus you can make up words as you go along
 

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