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But if you told that to the kids of today...
- little girl speak
> Kiriyama wrote:
> Blank wrote:
> Kiriyama wrote:
> Blank wrote:
> Kiriyama wrote:
> Northerners are st00pid.
>
> Hmm, irony.
>
> Hmm, sarcasm.
>
> Hmm, humour.
>
> Hmm, Bud, true, true :D
>
> Hmm, I can't work out where this is going to go from here.
You were lucky: we 'ad to get up and hour before bedtime, eat hot tar f' breakfast, work f'a year in t' mines and the ur dad would kill us with a spade.
> Blank wrote:
> Kiriyama wrote:
> Blank wrote:
> Kiriyama wrote:
> Northerners are st00pid.
>
> Hmm, irony.
>
> Hmm, sarcasm.
>
> Hmm, humour.
>
> Hmm, Bud, true, true :D
Hmm, I can't work out where this is going to go from here.
> I would have thought it would be "Ad-vaynce".
Or "advayance".
Deep South only though, I reckon.
> Twiddly wrote:
> RastaBillySkank wrote:
> Y'know the "posh" way of saying advance?
>
> Don't you mean the phonetically correct way of saying it?
>
> Actually, the correct term is 'received pronunciation.'
>
> >the "ah, buh, cuh, duh" pronounciation dummy-down so
> popular in the north and, co-incidentally, poverty stricken areas.
>
> You are obviously total idiot. Dialect has little or no correlation
> with socio-economic status. I live near Birmingham and do not speak
> with a Black Country accent. My friend would be considered as
> wealthier than me and speaks with a broad Black Country accent.
>
> You are a fool and obviously speak with received pronunciation, my
> friend is not a fool and also speaks with received pronunciation.
> Wow.
>
> If people could only talk properly, conversations like this would be
> uneccessary.
>
> Oh, go and sit in your rocking chair, bemoan the current social
> problems and ramble on about 'yob culture' you condescending ar$e.
Go Debbeh! :D
> "Advarnce" is the English pronunciation.
> "Ad-vance" (emphasis on second A) is the American
> pronunciation.
Yup, vewy tw00 :D
> Kiriyama wrote:
> Blank wrote:
> Kiriyama wrote:
> Northerners are st00pid.
>
> Hmm, irony.
>
> Hmm, sarcasm.
>
> Hmm, humour.
Hmm, Bud, true, true :D
Though the Americans go one step further... they don't say "harf" (half) "banarna" (banana) or anything with a silent R sound. Crazy Yanks.