pat8lanips: Even simple words, such as yoghurt, the English call it yoggitt whereas the Americans call it yowgerrt... And I'm sick to death of it. Cant youse just talk normally for once in your life?
You're just jealous Pat because there's more culture in a yoghurt than in the whole of Australia!
My pet hates are "wanna" and "gonna", but the worst is when they say " Care less" as in " I could care less if Trump becomes president" It is totally nonsensical, meaningless. How hard is it to say " I couldn't care less" I understand they have difficulty with spelling colour, or favourite, and it takes brain power to write Travelled, but "my bad"?? WTF???
Grumpywriter: Ah Pat, you and your selective humour gland
Yeah, that was a bit long-winded and dry, was aiming for irony but got sarcasm which never works in the written form. Maybe I should stick with toilet humour.
We still have to address the cilantro/coriander situation too, people are pretty pissed off about that too really. But lets just sort out aluminium and yoghurt for now.
rainbowdream2017Melbourne, Victoria Australia2,486 posts
pat8lanips: We still have to address the cilantro/coriander situation too, people are pretty pissed off about that too really. But lets just sort out aluminium and yoghurt for now.
pat8lanips: We still have to address the cilantro/coriander situation too, people are pretty pissed off about that too really. But lets just sort out aluminium and yoghurt for now.
I've said it before, the whole thing is a marketing gimmick by the coriander board. They figure naming it after a French poofy car will help them sell more of the bloody stuff.
rizlared: My pet hates are "wanna" and "gonna", but the worst is when they say " Care less" as in " I could care less if Trump becomes president" It is totally nonsensical, meaningless. How hard is it to say " I couldn't care less" I understand they have difficulty with spelling colour, or favourite, and it takes brain power to write Travelled, but "my bad"?? WTF???
Oh my! I am southern. We have a language all of our own. As do many countries. It is a region thing. Your ears would most likely bleed if you heard me talk. I can talk as formal as anyone yet once relaxed the southern drawl comes back. Sorry "my bad"
You know? I can honestly say ones speech has never bothered me. Maybe it should. I know my own speech has bothered me at times. I speak more than one language. And when I speak Mexican spanish ( spanish seems to be a regional language also) it sounds hilarious to my ears because of my southern drawl. Yet as bad as I torture the language the Mexicans even tho laughing their bums off seem to understand me.
Rizlared per chance are you an English teacher? I miss Jan_is being on here. She was a teacher also. If my memory is correct she was in Spain at one time of English descent. Okey dokey hope your ears aren't bleeding yet
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And the British accent you are referring to is more SE England, That's be like me saying ALL Americans say Y'all!
But you DO all say aloo-min-umm. :))
Brits don't have feet?