Important poll, help!

[racer2438]

No todo el tiempo,


and in English, we don't have R's in our ass's, cuz it makes no sense to pronounce it that way, and does not sound correct.

I mean, arse..... the ass....that is just not right(to me)

I want to fuck your ass

or

I want to fuck your arse(are-s) is what it sounds like.

 

[The Fly]

Use American-ized English. Proper or not, it's the variant of power. It's also most widely heard due to the entertainment industry.

 

[G-Lexington]

That depends - would you rather sound intelligent or hip?

Lex

 

[Kahaih]

I wish I could speak 'hip'. But, it seems the 'language' [and the instructors] changes far too often for me to keep up.

To me, it's not so important how I sound, but rather how to get the (intended) audience to best understand what I'm saying.

 

[belamyi]

Lex! Now I know you were missing in this thread...

You mean choosing between sounding intelligent like John Cleese or hip like Chomsky... in the 1960s..?

 

[belamyi]

I wish I could speak 'hip'. But, it seems the 'language' [and the instructors] changes far too often for me to keep up.

To me, it's not so important how I sound, but rather how to get the (intended) audience to best understand what I'm saying.

Rubbish! someone aspiring to be understood is someone who actually has something substantial to say, and therefore will NEVER be understood by an audience who merely reacts to external stimuli like brains in a vat.

 

[maxpowr9]

The only thing I find really grating about British English is their pronunciation of "haiches". I can tolerate "zeds" but the "H" sound just sounds so wrong and unintelligent. The "American" way sounds much better.

 

[JohnnyAnger]

I say go with the British, everyone understands it and it will make you look way smart than some dumb American! It is hardly the end of the world what one you choice, just we from the UK will silently judge you less than us.

 

[unloadonme]

Only the Queen's English will do.

 

[umjreon88]

I don't have a preference for people's use of British English or American English, though by default I'd always type/write/think in British English just because my country's English follow the British way, received pronunciation, etc...

 

[G-Lexington]

You mean choosing between sounding intelligent like John Cleese or hip like Chomsky... in the 1960s..?

In America, the British accent is used in movies and TV as shorthand to indicate one of any number of things: intelligence, class, stuffiness, evilness (but always of the calm, intelligent type). I'm assuming that this will transfer over into the spelling as well. So if you use the British-type spelling, you'll immediately appear more intelligent and cultured than otherwise to us 'Murkins.

...to a degree. "LOL tripped on the kerb and ripped my multicoloured shirt OMG" probably won't help.

Lex

 

[belamyi]

Only the Queen's English will do.

The Coronation or the Jubilee Queen's English?

 

[belamyi]

Ok people, you convinced me: I'll revert to BE

Thanks to one last Adamic gentle push.

 

[palbert]

What about chav and scally (i.e., street lizard) lad British English?

 

[belamyi]

What about chav and scally (i.e., street lizard) lad British English?

Too complicated for a complicated lizard like myself.

 

[belamyi]

Now I remember that I first started throwing away my high-school-received British spelling when some American started (rather indignantly) correcting that spelling... hm... I wonder where are those people now.
I can have only in this forum or that skyscraper thing... "-city" or (quite improbable but nevertheless possible) "-page".

 

[unloadonme]

The Coronation or the Jubilee Queen's English?

The Silver, Gold or Diamond Jubilee?

What about chav and scally (i.e., street lizard) lad British English?

Too cretinous.

 

[belamyi]

The Silver, Gold or Diamond Jubilee?

As long as it spans a couple or two couple of decades...

 

[Kabluey]

The only thing I find really grating about British English is their pronunciation of "haiches". I can tolerate "zeds" but the "H" sound just sounds so wrong and unintelligent. The "American" way sounds much better.

Oh, that's something lots of people frown on. Tends to be used by people of Irish heritage in the UK and Australia.
It's like scratching fingernails down a blackboard.

 

[figjam]

Given the recent amount of spellanalicity about the American mEsspelling of the general English mess that I quote in the spelling of my posts... whose demands/preferences should I yield to, no matter how I butcher the pronunciation in full three-dimensional life?

English is English - British is the only way....