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Callmesusan 
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Post subject: Do you think you're American?
 Posted: Oct 31, 2011 - 04:18 PM
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First post: Oct 22, 2011
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Do you think you're American when you make a statement and then think you've turned it in to a question by saying/typing the word "right" after it?
Eg... There's four of them right?
If you want to ask a question, then ask one... Don't try and be trendy and say it like yanks do |
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cantridepete
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Post subject: RE: Do you think you
Posted: Oct 31, 2011 - 05:11 PM
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SnowHawk01
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Post subject: RE: Do you think you
Posted: Oct 31, 2011 - 05:48 PM
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BartSimpsonhead
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Post subject: RE: Do you think you
Posted: Oct 31, 2011 - 06:02 PM
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No I don't - especially when I read it if someone's written it down.
And anyway, it's all to do with the inflection of the voice - whether the tone of your voice goes up at the end of the sentence or not. Australians are more prone to this than Americans I'd say... |
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ace_mcgraw
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Post subject: RE: Do you think you
Posted: Oct 31, 2011 - 08:01 PM
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First post: Feb 20, 2007
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Location: That snowboarding hotbed, Norfolk
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227angrydonkeys
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Posted: Oct 31, 2011 - 09:30 PM
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| thief used to hate all that americanism stuff too didnt he, and that snowboardinghero guy. right? |
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Posted: Oct 31, 2011 - 09:32 PM
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Location: a world of my own, but mostly sheffield.
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POW!POW!POW!
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Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 02:54 PM
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| Yeah. Those guys were dicks though, right? |
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Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 03:10 PM
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| Think you should be throwing language like that aboot eh? |
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Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 04:35 PM
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| Does it really matter if someone uses Americanisms? Just ignore it when they say the offending words afterward right? |
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R1ch
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Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 06:03 PM
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First post: Jan 07, 2005
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I noticed when I was living there that Canadians tend to ask something like:
"Do you think this is a nice colour, or no?"
"Have you seen so-and-so today, or no?"
"Do you like that, or no?"
It's a strange adding of 'no' to then end of the question, just incase you didn't know how to answer negatively! |
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tortyv
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Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 08:29 AM
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First post: Oct 15, 2009
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| That's like what the Germans do. They sometimes add "oder?" or "oder was?" (Or? Or what?) Oder was can be consider a little rude tho sometimes. I like adding both in. |
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ace_mcgraw
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Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 08:32 AM
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I noticed a similar thing when I was at Uni where I knew loads of Northern Irish people. They would answer their own questions -
"Do you not like that colour, no?"
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"Is that your favorite colour, yes?" |
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Yosh
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Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 10:02 AM
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First post: Oct 28, 2009
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JakeDurbs
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Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 10:13 AM
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First post: Sep 06, 2011
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So should this thread be renamed "Do you think you're American/English/French/German/Irish/Canadian/Russian/Romainian/Czech/Polish/Spanish/Italian/Scottish/Australian?"
That Wikipedia link also made me realise that perhaps the English are one of the worst offenders!
"Oooooooh it's Lovely day today, isn't it?" |
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