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[Series9]

Is there any chance of having a spell/grammar checker on this site?

I'm really sorry, but you guys should at least try to type the English language correctly.

I fully understand the occasional type-o, but come on, at least try to speak the language.

We have European members who speak (type) better English (American) than most of you cheap bastards.

Don't hate me for bringing this up, but it's starting to wear me down. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool_shades.gif)


Seeing tires spelled tiars makes me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

[Hawktel]

we speak accent free ...American.....except for the R in warsh

Er, you speak "American" with an American accent, not "accent-free" anything. Anyone who says someone "has no accent" is simply saying they have the same accent as they do.

The English invented the bloody language, so if anyone has a right to define a given accent as a "non-accent", it's them. However, they themselves have so many accents and subtle variations on accent caused by regional and class differences that they can't even agree on what that "non-accent" should be. The BBC even went to considerable lengths in the 1920s to define a "BBC accent", and forced all of their presenters to adopt that accent on the air. This policy was enforced until the late 1970s, when regional accents finally managed to get on the air, at least for some presenters.

There are enough variations in US usage that there really isn't an "American" accent, either. TV and radio presenters are, again, the usual standard, but not to the extent the British have gone in the past. However, if you've ever heard a British comedian affect a mock "American" accent, you'll quickly hear just how hilarious a "non accent" can sound.

Actually, IIRC English as a language has drifted more in Great Britan than here in the States.

If you was to pull a person from the 1800 into the present age and question him, he would find it easier to speak to a person with American way of speaking than a British way of speaking.

It was a pretty complex on why, but basically as America had/has a larger population to incorperate into English due to immigration and a larger population, so it lacked any significant drift for a portion of time. So when buzzwords are introduced they don't ussualy become part of the lexicon, where in GB they do, Due to its smaller population thats more homogenous ( for the most part)

But over all who cares, If you don't understand something cause Engrish isn't your first language just ask, No one here has a problem with keeping their mouth shut. Far from.