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Weird things about the English

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SerenityNigh said:
*This is a thread for the non-English members of Grand Old Team Forum to participate, so if any English members would kindly watch from the sidelines, thank you.*

What are some weird things you've observed about the English that you wish to share? Please elaborate as much as necessary.

Personally I get confused when I hear them pronounce "6th" like they've got a throat swollen full of mucous. They can typically pronounce 6 [ siks ] correctly but when you convert this number to its ordinal all sense of normalcy in pronunciation goes away. For reference, proper pronunciation of 6th is [ siksth ].
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Why you aksin
 

Rita_Poon said:
"The The" avant garde?
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Double knobs.

At any rate, nearly all of those "The *something*" bands are famous almost entirely to English people and on one else, with very few exceptions.

The shock from people when I didn't know some band that was "top of the charts" was hilarious - as if anyone was ever arsed about those charts outside of England/the UK and most/all of those bands were regionally famous one-hit/album-wonders.

Best Liverpool band is Carcass and there's just no competition (@Gwladys St. Glory ).
 
My old boss was German. Reckoned we're weirdly polite and no one in Germany ould dream of deferring to someone opening a door or reaching for milk in the supermarket (oh, sorry, you first sort of stuff).

My missus thinks we're so weird in letting animals (pets) boss us around. "They're not people, why do you treat them like small children and let themget away with so much?"

Sorry, not technically from the mouth of Forns, but that's what I've got.
 
Daveysgingerlovechild said:
My old boss was German. Reckoned we're weirdly polite and no one in Germany ould dream of deferring to someone opening a door or reaching for milk in the supermarket (oh, sorry, you first sort of stuff).

My missus thinks we're so weird in letting animals (pets) boss us around. "They're not people, why do you treat them like small children and let themget away with so much?"

Sorry, not technically from the mouth of Forns, but that's what I've got.
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Throw her out.
 
SerenityNigh said:
*This is a thread for the non-English members of Grand Old Team Forum to participate, so if any English members would kindly watch from the sidelines, thank you.*

What are some weird things you've observed about the English that you wish to share? Please elaborate as much as necessary.

Personally I get confused when I hear them pronounce "6th" like they've got a throat swollen full of mucous. They can typically pronounce 6 [ siks ] correctly but when you convert this number to its ordinal all sense of normalcy in pronunciation goes away. For reference, proper pronunciation of 6th is [ siksth ].
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Tell people I’m Scottish when I go abroad so people don’t assume I’m some sort of leering, vest wearing, boot licking bloater with a penchant for blaming everything that’s wrong with the world on immigrants, rather than the people paying pittance for 50 hours a week of graft.
 


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