What accent do you really hate? and which one you love?
A black man can have sex with white chicks and still have pride,I slept with a black woman before(yes I know its a travesty)and I don't feel ashamed of myself.
ghetto:"refers to very high concentrations of people drawn from a particular ethnic or cultural background living in specific parts of an urban area. The term is now commonly associated with notions of deprivation, unemployment and social exclusion."
so I guess those people living on council estates,who refuse to contribute to society,and steal from the tax payers,are living in the ghetto.Ghetto isnt just a black thing.The slums applies to any place,or people.
An Irish man having sex with a nig.... black woman. Have you no shame?
What sort of racist freaks do you get here?
There are all sorts of people on this forum, and most people think that I post as nearly everybody.
Some people think that I am Adam who I must admit makes interresting points.
lol ooops, I know its British- I don't know why I keep mixing it up.
By the way, what is "Brummie"?
Secondly- The english in Quebec is what I call "H'English" Because there are the two languages- we kind of ended up lost in translation- some of our "french words" are actually english words, for example. We aren't exactly 100% french. We kind of masacred la belle langue.
Why the english sounds so different- I guess because it's spoken with a bit of a french "H'accent" Someone from Paris speaking english would have an accent too, so Francophones speaking english have the Quebec accent. It isn't really deliberate, it just happens.
Most Quebecors switch back and forth between the languages- sometimes the conversations are 50/50.
Then again, there's always the exception to the rule- I grew up speaking english and had very little schooling in french, so my french isn't very good. Most people ask me if I'm from Ontario (or tell me to return to Ontario) lol
Not all francophones are exactly happy with having english here- but french canadians are very friendly people on the whole.
So, incase you were wondering- I still have the Quebec accent when I'm speaking english, although it isn't as strong as a francophone's accent is I'm sure. So, it's kind of awkward.
Question- do Brits really say "bloke" and "mate" ?
Canadiana, a Brummie is someone who comes from Birmingham, sometimes it is used mistakenly to describe anyone from the black country (an industrial region of the west midlands).
We do say Bloke, and mate, not just some national stereotype ;)
That's OK, Canadiana.......people saying they "like THE British accent" (in the singular) seems to be very common. Most Brits think the non Brit person making that remark is referring to standard RP English English..the Queen or Grant or Knightley etc.....the "posh English English people", and wonder if people abroad genuinely believe that the entire population here all speak like that! Britain = England in many of their minds! Aaaarrrggghhh! Does my head in!
If I ever hear that "like the British accent" stuff I mentally post a large illuminated notice board listing every single British accent that exists with wee boxes alongside each one and people can tick the one they like best, or just put in 1, 2, 3 etc in order of preference....all the way down to about.....no idea...maybe over a hundred.....I haven't counted them all.
Brummie : The accent of Birmingham (the UK's second largest city after London). Pronounced: "BURM-ing-um" in England; "BURRRRRRM-ing-um" here in Scotland. The American version is "Burm-ing-HAM". :-)
"Bloke" and "mate" are very widely used here in the UK. Many blokes (males) address each other as "mate", especially those in my age group, although increasingly it seems older people do as well, but I don't think many really old people do, especially the posher ones. Here in Scotland "pal" is widely used between males....I don't think it's used much in England, though.
Pal is rarely used, but its not unknown. Tends to be when some one is a bit annoyed "now listen here, PAL"
Fella, is another one..."Aye up fella!". I say bud alot, is that an americanism? or is it from here?
Its intresting what Americans from Birmingham in Alabama call them selves, "Birminghamians". Is there a Manchester? Do they call them selves Manchesterites? Compared to Manchunian, or Manc.
"Ites" is what we add to towns to describe their local chav population in a derogotory manner. "Boroites", "Stocktonites"
The way they pronounce Durham is interesting, Dyoorham..rather than DUHRUM.
I'm really kicking myself because I'm in a travel class, I should have known that. lol. That table would help out alot of people ;)
We totally say BurmingHAM. Then again, you should hear the way my teacher says EDIN BURRR GUH. My grandmother is originally from scottland, so I know how to say Edinburugh.
Mate, Pal, Bud, eh? We mainly just say "Hey guys" or call them by name I guess. Maybe fella was once used here, a while ago. By the way- I hear alot of british/europeans/ people from elsewhere refer to the Americans and Canadians simply as "Americans" We like to consider ourselves very different from them.
By the way, I'm not quite sure what ..."Aye up fella!" means- but I love it. lol We should all get together and laugh at our accents. It would be pretty rad.
I've heard fellas used in the plural, but almost never singular here in Minnesota. Mate is never used, pal only when expressing annoyance (as Jim C from York said), and bud and buddy are used sometimes.
As far as geographical adjectives go, we usually merely add n to place names that end in 'a' (Minnesotan, Owatonnan). "ite" has become common for people from places ending in a consonant, although I really don't like it personally (Wisconsonite, St. Paulite). The variety of origins in the place names of the upper Midwest make it tough to make a general rule, although I guess by analogy someone from Minneapolis could be Minneapolitan. I have no idea what to call someone from Faribault (French, pronounced by locals as Faribo). "ian" is another common ending (Duluthian is I believe the most popular, and I've heard people from Fargo refer to themselves as Fargonian).
"Duluthian" has a sort of Posh, Old Boy kind of ring to it, You get Old Etonians (ie. Eton Prince Harry and William's old school). Doesn't sound good to me, but I suppose British, and especialy English nicknames for where people come from are really obscure. Tyke for instance is what we Yorkshiremen call our selves, which is also our word for a little rascal, sort of obscure. Compared to people from York, who just get called Yorkies nice and easy. But Geordie for instance, there are two schools of thought of where that came from, either Newcastle's allegance to King George during the Jackobite rebelion, or the type of lamps they continued to use down the mines...
Canadiana, Aye Up means, Hello, look out!, look at that/this, and as a exclamation of suprise in Yorkshire speak.
We know that you Canadians are different to Americans here ;) So don't worry... Incidently here are few web sites on Canada and Yorkshire's links to each other, as you liked "Aye Up" so much... I wonder if people in some parts of Canada use it?
http://ayup.co.uk/knows/knows11.html
http://www.bifhsgo.ca/classics/classics_arayburn.htm
<<Its intresting what Americans from Birmingham in Alabama call them selves, "Birminghamians". Is there a Manchester? Do they call them selves Manchesterites? Compared to Manchunian, or Manc.>>
There's a city called Manchester in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire (the largest city in that state), and a town called Manchester in Hartford County, Connecticut. I think residents in both communities call themselves "Manchesterites," but I've also heard "Manchesterian."