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Kantor on 20 October 2009
Aj_habfan said:
Kantor said:
trashleg said:

lol, scones.

bad dental hygiene.. really?! :-O  i don't like tea >.< its irn bru and a packet of crisps up here

aah, Irn Bru... does it not just look like a magic potion?? its little sister Red Kola is even sweeter..

it's fizzy, it's ginger.

it's PHENOMENAL.

 

I would sooner eat Steak and Kidney (eugh) pie than have a sip of that thing.

Who the hell puts ginger in a soft drink?

Ginger ale? Ever heard of it?

I have, actually, but it sounds disgusting, so I've never tried it.



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Aj_habfan on 20 October 2009
Kantor said:
Aj_habfan said:
Kantor said:
trashleg said:

lol, scones.

bad dental hygiene.. really?! :-O  i don't like tea >.< its irn bru and a packet of crisps up here

aah, Irn Bru... does it not just look like a magic potion?? its little sister Red Kola is even sweeter..

it's fizzy, it's ginger.

it's PHENOMENAL.

 

I would sooner eat Steak and Kidney (eugh) pie than have a sip of that thing.

Who the hell puts ginger in a soft drink?

Ginger ale? Ever heard of it?

I have, actually, but it sounds disgusting, so I've never tried it.

Well I hate ginger and think it taste pretty good. Mostly similar to a Sprite or 7Up. It's usually what someone in my family drinks when they are sick though, lol.



damkira on 20 October 2009
highwaystar101 said:
damkira said:
Living in an area with a high concentration of British people and talking to them daily, there are a few things I've noticed which are very different between British and American people. I've always wondered why British men insist upon wearing capri pants? It looks silly and gay at that. I'm gay and it took me back a bit to find that all these people are not homosexuals but British tourists. Its also strange to me that British people call Sprite lemonade. I wonder if they don't have real lemonade in the UK? Its delicious and easy to make...

but the only thing that really bugs me about British tourists is that they don't seem to know how to tip correctly.. I mean, if the service is terrible then a bad tip is fine but an 5% tip on excellent service is insulting.

I'm sure British people could go on and on about the foibles of American tourists, too.. and the above post wasn't meant to insult anybody.

Which British people wear Capri pants (Or 3/4 lengths as we call them)? I think it's an abroad thing we do because the weather in our country ranges from overcast to rain.

Yeah we don't tip 20%, service charges tend to be added onto bills in Britain and you give a couple of quid extra if you feel the service has been exceptional. So a 5% tip is probably because you have given excellent service, I wouldn't take it as an insult even though it is annoying, we get a little confused I think.

And we do call sprite lemonade, but we also have real Lemonade too, the name is interchangeable between Sprite/7up and real lemonade.

 

LOL You're probably right.. I do live in Florida and the climate is quite different here.



SimonSaysFYou on 20 October 2009

Lol wow, I go to work and school today and come home and this thread exploded to 16 pages (at 10 per page). I just wanted to know where the u came from.



FaRmLaNd on 20 October 2009

Gaol. That is all



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pastro243 on 20 October 2009
SimonSaysFYou said:

So all you foreigners, please explain why you add a 'u' to words like favourite (favorite), colour (color), and others? The words don't have the short o sound when you say them. I understand that english is a complex language with complex sounds, dialects, and irregularities...but this I've never been able to understand.


I think its very easy compared to others



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SimonSaysFYou on 20 October 2009
pastro243 said:
SimonSaysFYou said:

So all you foreigners, please explain why you add a 'u' to words like favourite (favorite), colour (color), and others? The words don't have the short o sound when you say them. I understand that english is a complex language with complex sounds, dialects, and irregularities...but this I've never been able to understand.


I think its very easy compared to others


Actually, I've heard from many sources that English is in fact the second most difficult language to learn, only behind Mandarin Chinese.



sc94597 on 20 October 2009
SimonSaysFYou said:
pastro243 said:
SimonSaysFYou said:

So all you foreigners, please explain why you add a 'u' to words like favourite (favorite), colour (color), and others? The words don't have the short o sound when you say them. I understand that english is a complex language with complex sounds, dialects, and irregularities...but this I've never been able to understand.


I think its very easy compared to others


Actually, I've heard from many sources that English is in fact the second most difficult language to learn, only behind Mandarin Chinese.

It depends on what your original language is, and how much it is related to english. Most germanic(English fits in here, Dutch, German, and many many others fit as well.) or romance speakers(Spanish, French, Italian, all languages that were once dialects of Latin.) On the other hand, non indo european languages that have very little recent ancestry with English will make it much harder for somebody to learn. What really hurts the learning process of English though is the ridiculous amount of exceptions to grammar and spelling. Most languages have exceptions, but none really at the level of English. That and some really off non-phonetic spellings. An example would be the words "though" and through". If you pronounced them as the sounds they make you would be looked at like you said one of the weirdest things ever.



ArcticGabe on 20 October 2009

English is hard? lol
Try to learn Chinese, Arabic...



thanny on 20 October 2009
ArcticGabe said:

English is hard? lol
Try to learn Chinese, Arabic...

Wow. This is an incredibly ignorant thing to say... just amazing how ignorant people are. Of course you think its easy, you learnt it from childhood and it is the language you know! just like someone as ignorant as you who great up in Saudi Arabia would think Arabic is easy and english is incredibly hard. As far as 'second languages' go, Engish is arguably the hardest to learn, because there are so many inconsistencys etc.

 

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