Actually Proper English, is called "Recieved Pronounciation" which pronounces all words in correct English. Also America has regional dialects as well.
The English cannot be trusted with the English language. Running around calling stairs apples. Sorry, but you forfeit command of the language. Also soccer is lame and real football is awesome. Also hockey. Cricket is a waste of 3 days. The only thing that England can do even remotely close to right is beer; and even there America has you beat. As such, "better civilized" is proper English.
Oh, and your food sucks.
There is no proper English anymore... that was the point and why I made a sarcastic comment about the majority.
I see it now. I've seen Life of Brian countless times...did not make the reference.
Thanks to Americas "innovations" half the country lives off of fast food and Processed foods.
The most frequently cited example—although it is almost never employed by current users[SUP][2][/SUP]—involves the replacement of "stairs" with the rhyming phrase "apples and pears". Following the usual pattern of omission, "(and) pears" is then dropped and "stairs" becomes "apples"; this is deciphered as "apples" > "apples and pears" > "stairs". Thus the spoken phrase "I'm going up the apples" means "I'm going ['up the stairs'/'upstairs']".In similar fashion, "telephone" is replaced by "dog" (= 'dog-and-bone'); "wife" by "trouble" (= 'trouble-and-strife'); "eyes" by "minces" (= 'mince pies'); "wig" by "syrup" (= 'syrup of figs') and "feet" by "plates" (= 'plates of meat'). Thus a construction of the following type could conceivably arise: "It nearly knocked me off me plates—he was wearing a syrup! So I got straight on the dog to me trouble and said I couldn't believe me minces."
Brilliant Film.
And thanks to British "innovation" I'm left with Big Brother knock offs, American Idol, America Has Talent, etc. If anyone is at fault for a larger travesty its your side's invention of reality TV.
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And thanks to British "innovation" I'm left with Big Brother knock offs, American Idol, America Has Talent, etc. If anyone is at fault for a larger travesty its your side's invention of reality TV.
And the other thing is British rhyming slang. I had a roommate from London who I couldn't understand half the time. Why the hell are stairs called apples? Because it's apples and pears and pears rhymes with stairs. That's just rude, you'll never keep a language by making things like that up.
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The British flag is actually a compilation of 3 other flags. How would the British flag change were your goal of bringing the US into the British fold occur?
That "rhyme" is the Graceful and wonderful dialect called cockney (note the sarcasm) and also reality TV is a disease that needs to be purged, Honestly its bulls**t. Dont understand those who watch it. Unfortunately America has taken the disease as well as the western world. Although Processed foods and reality tv seem to go hand in hand here...
Come on now, Rambo, Chuck Noris and Steven Segal are no better. In other words, how holy is Holywood, hm? :lol:
Even Steven Segal is better than Simon what's his name...Coweling? The American Idol guy.
Even Steven Segal is better than Simon what's his name...Coweling? The American Idol guy.
I don't know who this guy is but I know T.J. Hooker, it's on AXN. Love his tight uniform. :lol:
I like Monty Python. British TV can be quite brilliant at times, and I doubt I'll ever get enough Dr. Who. I watch my fair share of British TV. But some of it is a huge miss like Absolutely Fabulous and Are You Being Served.
What's next? BJ and the Bear?
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Red, white, blue (please, note the flags)... English language... capitalism... culture... etc.
Can America be considered a British child? :2razz: