How about Mr Prime Minister? I'd never heard that before Mr bLIAR was PM. "Going to the movies" and not "cimema". Z and not S in words like authorise . I must stop , my blood will boil.
Ah yes. All these things are deplorable but it is OUR FAULT. We imported these horrors, every one and I am prepared to bet that we all use some of them, especially if we need to communicate with our offspring. Even the squirrels were brought here by somebody.
Hmmm... I generally like Americans, and usually I find them more polite than British people, - some evidence of that on this thread, as the British have a long standing reputation of superiority and condescension - sorry to be so blunt.... and the UK has imported a whole lot worse, than ... a Big Mac..
I think if I was an American looking in, I would find this thread rather unsavoury and it never serves a useful purpose to pick on a nationality, unless it's your own... in fact I find there's something rather cowardly about it.. even if disguised in jest...
Here's a wonderful American bred import... if you like this sort of thing... as long as Europe keeps Rose Rosette Disease away, and we should be very careful about importing rose budwood from the U.S. at the current time..
I love America, fantastic country and have met many lovely Americans. We find their language odd, well it is another country so surely we would expect that. What about Australian?
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I just wish that we didn’t have to ape their culture and language and think that by doing so we were somehow improving our own culture and language.
I don't believe there is a planned improvement intended in the import. It's only that so many of the TV shows we watch are American, the language and traditions have become so familiar to us, we forget we are 'culturally appropriating' them. And the reason there are so many US TV shows on our screens is that a lot of them are much better than our own TV - or have been. It seems to go in phases, sometimes we have lots of great British TV, but there have been quite long stretches of time in the last 30 years or so when nothing even vaguely watchable was being made here.
Bio security is an issue for an island relative to any other country, but proximity makes Europe a bigger threat, on the whole, than America.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Americans are no better and no worse than any other people.
I have quite a few American relatives and they are delightful people.
I just wish that we didn’t have to ape their culture and language and think that by doing so we were somehow improving our own culture and language.
And now I shall bid you all a fond farewell.
Apart from the relatives bit, I agree wholeheartedly, especially the "I just wish that we didn’t have to ape their culture and language and think that by doing so we were somehow improving our own culture and language." bit.
Sure, some real neat things have come from the US, so would someone like to start a thread for all the good things we have gained from the Americas? I have been twice to the USA and thoroughly enjoyed it, and twice to visit my folks in Canada which is a bit more like the US than we are. (One part of our family lives in a "condo".)
Meanwhile, I'll continue this thread by mentioning Cruise missiles.
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"Going to the movies" and not "cimema".
Z and not S in words like authorise .
I must stop , my blood will boil.
I think if I was an American looking in, I would find this thread rather unsavoury and it never serves a useful purpose to pick on a nationality, unless it's your own... in fact I find there's something rather cowardly about it.. even if disguised in jest...
Here's a wonderful American bred import... if you like this sort of thing... as long as Europe keeps Rose Rosette Disease away, and we should be very careful about importing rose budwood from the U.S. at the current time..
I love America, fantastic country and have met many lovely Americans.
We find their language odd, well it is another country so surely we would expect that.
What about Australian?
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Bio security is an issue for an island relative to any other country, but proximity makes Europe a bigger threat, on the whole, than America.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Meanwhile, I'll continue this thread by mentioning Cruise missiles.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.