Comments on: PUNTABULOUS HATES YOU

By: Sven

Sven — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:34:46 +0000

I don’t know, we give you a language and look what you do with it: there are no such words as ‘gotten’, ‘acclimate’, nor ‘potentiality’. Then, when we send your citizens back, better informed and ready to reclaim our language, they get cruelly mocked because they have enormous hats!? They got that from us too!!

English people returning from the US talking like gangstas: now that’s bad news. It’s like, so degrading.

By: crunchy carpets

crunchy carpets — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:16:08 +0000

sorry…needed to change my info up there with registering thingy

By: crunchy carpets

crunchy carpets — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:15:36 +0000

Oh god….I have a friend who was born and raised Canadian..but he had English parents.
From HIGH SCHOOL he cultivated an accent.

This got worse when he went to work their for a bit and is even WORSE now that he has married one.

It goes the reverse too. I had a Scottish friend who worked and lived for years in NY and cultivated the strangest accent and is hanging on to it with sheer determination now that she is back in the UK.

I just can’t get rid of my accent and people mock me about this all the time.

By: M

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:42:11 +0000

Oh fuck. I know this syndrome well. I lived in a non English speaking country for about six months, and when I came home, I didn’t have an accent (aside from my godawful Midwestern one), I just couldn’t remember some words, like ironing board, or paperweight. So I didn’t look like an asshole, I just looked like an idiot.

The whole thing of people affecting an accent annoys me to no end. My cousin is living in Ireland, and she has this ‘Irish’ accent. Now she’s saying shit like ‘Grand!’ and ‘No worries!’ Fuck you, no worries. You sound like a total douchebag, and you’re not fooling anyone. We all know you’re from Tuscon. What a whore.

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:14:30 +0000

Oh dear. My friend Amanda and I for some odd unknown reason have a tendency to talk British when we are together. We’re both rabid Anglophiles (hello David Bowie!!) and even got to the point were we had to create a warning alarm when out in public and one of us heard a real British person. Yes “Code Union Jack!!” means “Stop faking before the real one hears you and asks you where your from and you don’t know what to say so you mumble something containing ‘Thames’ and ‘Shire’ and are exposed as a raving raving loony!!”

By: Sabila

Sabila — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:15:48 +0000

Craig, I wonder what Rich’s take on all of this is. He should comment.

By: Barry

Barry — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:52:30 +0000

Not a native english speaker here, but spoiled with several foreign terrestrial telly stations here in the Netherlands, amongst others the bloody fantastic BBC, gawd!

I love putting up an accent when I’m in Britain, (whilst drinking tea and eating biscuits)but it changes when I speak to say Americans (whilst eating fastfood and drinking Diet Coke – cause I do mind my figure). If Rene fucking Zellweger can pull it of, and mary (and divorce) a country singer, so can us ordinary mortals….

Aren’t you just jealous of the giant hat? Very Ascot, very Royal….. hmmmmmm

By: Polt

Polt — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:22:00 +0000

Back in 1984 I went to Europe for a month and in 1995, I went back to England for two weeks to visit friends. Both times, when I returned, I was told I had an English type accent, but I lost it after about two days of being home. Course, I wasn’t purposely trying to keepit and appear all worldly and stuff when I was just a guy from little town in rural PA.

I hate those type of people you mention as well.