Video: Learn to Speak Like An American

[FlyTexas]

http://www.wimp.com/americanenglish/

Brian

[Garry Russell]

They call it accurate english when it is American

Why don't Americans just learn to talk proper like wot we do.

[nigelb]

Agree, Gary. I wonder if there is a video for Americans to learn proper English?

Nigel²

[airboatr]

Hold on
let me throw back a few bowls of scouse I'll be speaking as clear as a bell!

[FlyTexas]

I wonder if there is a video for Americans to learn proper English?

I don't think such a video exists Nigel. I was watching a TV interview the other day of a gentleman from Tennessee. They actually had English subtitles on the screen when this guy spoke. The sad part is I understood every word he said.

Brian

[Tomliner]

Garry,the correct phrase should be 'Why don't the Americans just learn to talk proper like wot we DOES'.Dear oh dear,standards are slipping. EricT

[Paul K]

What I want to know is why Americans say 'I could care less' when what they mean is ' I couldn't care less' ( Could not instead of could ) ?

And why is every damned thing, from a cheeseburger to the planet Jupiter now 'awesome' ??? Other adjectives are available, you know.

[Garry Russell]

Awesome really irritates me, also Oh my God! after every surprise or even slight excitement.

Oh and whay do they do math?

But what do you expect when that woman says a 't' is not a 't' but a 'd' or a soft 'd'...No no no...it a T

But even the Queen doesn't speak the Queens' English

I live in a small house, she lives in a large hice

[FlyTexas]

What I want to know is why Americans say 'I could care less' when what they mean is ' I couldn't care less' ( Could not instead of could ) ?

And why is every damned thing, from a cheeseburger to the planet Jupiter now 'awesome' ??? Other adjectives are available, you know.

The could/couldn't issue is definitely a mystery. It doesn't make much sense does it? Paul you'll be happy to know that the word 'awesome' is now being replaced by the word 'sick'...at least among the younger Americans. So with that said may I be the first to state that Dave Garwood's new Dragon Rapide is totally sick! Ahhh, I feel younger already.

Brian

[Paul K]

... also Oh my God! after every surprise or even slight excitement.

Ohhh yes indeed. And 'like' as in I was like, she was like, we were like . What happened to I thought...I said...I felt...I remembered...I wondered ? I was in a cafe in London last year ( Tate Modern to be exact ) and sat at the next table were three people in their early twenties, two British males and an American woman. During the ten minutes before they left, I think that girl must have said 'like' forty or fifty times. If I'd had a pencil and paper handy ,I would have marked every one down and presented her with it.

Brian, I'm sick of it already