British Accents

Shitting fuck! You can sod off you bloody wanking, tossing tally-wacker!

Ahh, I'm upset "sod" isn't the same as "fuck." I was going to start using sod in my daily conversation. Way to give out false information Melissa. You stupid sod head ;)  Kidding, I love you!

dont you english talking people swear with diseases? if we really reallyyyyyy really hurt a toe we use words like cancer, phthisis (tering) and typhus (tyfus). Or saying like, "get cancer" and "rott away"

Well, they do say “bloody.” But that’s not exactly a disease.

hmz no, but what if you use a word like cancer? would it be to much a swear or is it dumb sounding?

Yeah it’s dumb, but some of us who are assholes will make comments to people about it. For instance, if someone says “My head has been hurting lately, it’s strange”, some of us will say, “Maybe you have brain cancer.”

yeah thats a close one. But its not like saying it just in the open. like "fuck" and "damn" is a powerword.
when something fail people wont say "oops" because its not relieving. powerword can give a releaving feeling. if you understand what i mean. so i guess diseases in english arn't powerfull words.

Or would be a other cultural diffrence the reason for this?...i was thinking maybe it is because sexual words have lesser meaning or are already to commen. finrod might have th answer( if he doesnt have....its hopeless too find it )

I see. We’re still dealing with the whole taboo thing. Is cancer a more offensive word than, say, cunt?

No way. Who would think that?

Where are you from Vano? Because in the US cunt is viewed as a really bad word like its barely even whispered here, and cancer is a touchy subject that most people stay away from too

Spokane, Washington, but I'm asking a man from the Netherlands pertaining to his last comment.

Just like any other swearword it is not behaved to use swearing near clients, near your boss, grandmothers etc. The official situations in life. But with that as exeption cunt (=kut) is far out the most used swearword. But this word isn't used against a other person. We dont say you are a cunt. but we do say, an item is cunt.
When i bump mine toe against i chait i will say: "cunt chair" (translated offcourse)
If we use it to call someone things we use cunt for a other word. like: cunt whore(kuthoer) cunt mongol (kut mongool) etc
Cancer is much more offensive for non religious people. 60% is non religious. it is even more offensive then religious terms like goddamn and Jesus. a funny thing, unlike the english where God is used to damn stuff, we use God to damn ourselfs. like god-damn-me (godverdomme) when something bad happens.

If i call a girlfriend cuntie she wouldnt mind, and if i say cunt to a male friend he wouldn't mind eiter. its just a other funny way to name each other. but with diseases and religious terms this is diffrent.

That's very interesting… hmmm… I've never heard of anything like that.

Language is a funny thing – like boomstam - (silly bunt)

In my language, insults involving sexual organs only refer to male parts....  if you call someone a 'fica' or a 'fico' (a cunt in my language), it is usually a very nice compliment!

I would like to ask a clever linguist why..... ;)

Well there's song from a South Park episode that makes fun of Japanese cartoons, and it goes: "Hey hey let's go…. protect my balls… Let's fighting love, Let's fighting love". Although this is a parody, it demonstrates that there are no perfectly smooth translations. We're talking about part of the world that are completely seperate. It's like people in America tend to have difficulty with conjugating verbs of other languages. I've also noticed people over in Germany, etc. have trouble knowing when to say "mine" or "my". Therefor you should stop being a cancer ridden cunt. I'm just sayin'.

Haha Vano, you're aswesome. "quit being a cancer ridden cunt" Amazing! No idea who you were saying that too, but I love your honesty.

Haha… and if he were saying it to you?

They have cool accents but you can't understand when they order "cheesebargers" at McDonald's. 

But I'd choose their accent any day....

Vano: as native English speaker, I think you should bear in mind that many people on this site are making the effort of speaking and discussing in a language which is not theirs, and thus they cannot master it as you do. So, instead of highligthing their possible mistakes - my/mine, etc. - ask yourself this question: would I be able to discuss and write in Dutch, German, French, etc., as they do in English?

Just think about this.... and be nice.

shes right … but hold up your hand bag and go  "ooooooo"

I agree with Clara too, I have a lot friends that english is not their native language, but they do very nice jobs of learning and speaking my language. When I hear criticism I always ask the one complaining, can you say that in their foreign language? 

A little tolerance goes a long way to making everyones day a lot happerier!

yep yep yep I totally agree " a little tolerance goes a long way" well said

ya know im polish but was born in america so im bilingual and i learned to speak english by myself. learning new languages comes really easy to me cuz im the best in class in spanish. and im not going to put on false modesty cuz its true. learning languages is just really easy for me.

Haruhihime, you are very fortunate, stick with it a very valuable tool to have.

Yeah, Clara is right. Everyone should remember that about half the people writing here are not English native speakers..... including me, as you might have noticed!!

thats pretty awesome Haruh!

Ya english isn't that easy hahaha im a native speaker and I still make screw ups

Holy shit, I think if you read again what it is that I said, responding to the comments above, I think it's pretty clear that I wasn't attacking anyone. If anything I was pointing out the difficulty of translation and the major differences in seperate languages, which is why I "highlighted" the fact that it is difficult for an English person to learn to conjugate their verbs in other languages. Maybe you should read all of what I said and not just the parts you want to read.

Vano, I've read evrything you wrote on this page,and I stand by eveything I said in my statements. The thing is, is that your pointing out faults and no one likes their faults pointed out, not even you, let it slide when you hear a mistake. 

Plus I'm not sure what this has to do with British Accents, but do carry on.

why thanx pudfker

Personally i think it is best to point out their mistakes it can be helpful because then those people know what they need to work on… i have a friend from Japan and i go through and correct his e-mails for him before i reply.

Actually, you got involved in a conversation, not just something I said on a whim, so you obviously have no idea what the original thoughts presented were.

Wait, what?  Why is everyone attacking Vano?  He wasn't criticizing anyone.

I was not attacking you, Vano, but - as in your post replying to Boomstam you were referring to mistakes - I took this chance to remind all the people here that many of us on Bestuff are not English native speakers.

And it's only thanks to our -  sometimes poor ;) - knowledge of your language that you can exchange views with people from all over the world.

English is definitely the most important communication language in the world, and certainly my favourite, but .... be sure that if only I could discuss on many of this site issues in my own language, I would surely sound more brilliant and appropriate than I do now.

So forgive me...

Haha I love British Accents!! "BLOODY HELL!! Who is that sexy bloke??"

I don't do this asterik (?) thing very often, in fact I've never done it before in my life, but I must...

*sigh

surely this should be “English accents” since Britian is Irland, Scotland and Wales as well? all those accents are different!

exactly. but people are ignorant and think england is britain =p

ok so does england=britain=united kingdom ???

i think england < britain = uk :D

We already went through this earlier. If you want a quick geography lesson, look at the earlier pages.

 I am not ignorant, I simply love them all... and... what makes you think by "British" they meant "England"? Ha! I caught you playing your own game.

I think they named this post 'British Accents' because they meant to include all of them, be it English, Scottish or Welsh varieties.... which, to us non-British people, sound all just as nice ;)

I've never heard a female accent that came out of Britain I didn't like. It's the male accents that I wouldn't say "sound all just as nice". I'm just sayin'.

You're just sayin'....;)

As for me, British accents... if they're male accents, they're sexy. If they're female accents, they are cute. Nice to listen to, anyway.

I'm British and i loathe my accent. I don't have the clipped, super posh one that every British person any any American sitcom has; i have a (not very broad, mind) northern accent.

british accents are so awesome!

fantastic!

i wish i had one.

I like Wallace's accent.

I ate at a British pub, and I didn't like the strong cheeses.

I like paddywagons.

I also like to mess with people by throwing them into a stereotype and pretending I completely, absolutely believe that they are that way.

"I started a joke, which started the whole world crying."

i love doing a british accent it totally drives all my friends crazy

Rac: Northern British accent sounds great!!!

;)