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Out of interest do any Americans here get offended by such jokes as these? Don't want to cause any trouble...
 
Wow... Nothing has really happend in England apart from the snow! That was amazing :D But not over Christmas unfortunatly. But it's been blimming freeeeezing!
 
I know!! I remember going outside barefoot and actually feeling like the helicopter men in day after tomorrow!!!

But seriously, Britain's been boring recently. What fun thing can we discuss in here now... I mean we've already stereotypically spoken about the weather!! How about - how else are you stereotypically British (even if you're not actually British!?!? :D)
 
Even if you're not actually British? Can do!

--In a world of iced tea drinkers, I drink hot tea w/ milk and sugar. (I guess you mostly knew that. :p)

--fork tines down in the left hand, as it should be!

--I keep typing things with british spelling. Then my spellchecker catches them. I thought I was just getting completely wrong spelling, till I had the spellchecker set for UK for some reason, and it didn't catch some, did catch others, and then I switched. I seem to have an odd mixture of british and american spellings. :p

--Same with punctuation. Except that I can keep those straight now. I don't turn in college papers with quotations in single quotes!

And now I'm wondering if those are stereotypes or just things the British do. Oh well. (English class has not been good for me. I now say way too much when typing. At least I still don't talk overmuch.)
 
Dernhelm said:
Even if you're not actually British? Can do!

--In a world of iced tea drinkers, I drink hot tea w/ milk and sugar. (I guess you mostly knew that. :p)
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Yes I knew this and congratulate you for it!! Well the sugar's a bit naughty but at least it's not wrong!

--fork tines down in the left hand, as it should be!
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what does this mean? What's a fork tine?

--I keep typing things with british spelling. Then my spellchecker catches them. I thought I was just getting completely wrong spelling, till I had the spellchecker set for UK for some reason, and it didn't catch some, did catch others, and then I switched. I seem to have an odd mixture of british and american spellings. :p
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Well this kind of makes sense. I mean you were homeschooled right?? And isn't one of your parents British or at least lived her for a while??

--Same with punctuation. Except that I can keep those straight now. I don't turn in college papers with quotations in single quotes!
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Now I always use single quotes. I always wondered what the difference was. I thought double was for speech and single was for quotation.

MF said:
i have a question. my friend went to north west england for a semester. where is that?
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Eastern USA I think??
 
Tines...you know, the little things on the end of a fork that cause pain when jabbed accidentally into your hand instead of into your steak...

Homeschooled and raised reading C. S. Lewis and Tolkien (and others) in British editions, which makes British spelling etc. seem more normal to me. Yup. I doubt my ancestry/living in England has much to do with it, as you don't pick up much in the way of writing skills when you're still in a stroller, but I'm sure the interests rubbed off a bit. :p

As far as quotes go, all I know is that a quotation in the US goes in double quotes, and a quotation inside that quotation goes in single quotes, while it's the reverse in Britain. And pretty well everywhere else in the world, as far as I know.

(How is NW England in the USA? I find this difficult to comprehend.)

Edit: What's wrong with sugar? It's good! Though I actually use artificial sweetener most of the time.
 
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You mean Americans don't use forks in their left hands?!!? How weird...

NW England is not in America but the only sensible answer I could think for that question would be... north west England?!

As long as you use sweetners that's ok. Sugar's unhealthy young lady!!
 
That's weird. What you call tines we call prongs. And that method of eating is completely normal (though I have to eat things one section at a time so I don't do it). And also, I will have the fork in my right hand if I'm eating something with just a fork - like pasta for example.
 
Cos I'm weird. Like with Sunday lunch it has to go veg, then potatoes, then yorkshire pud and last meat. I don't like mixing things and I hate it when the different parts touch each other. Grrr...
 
Oh, I see. I agree with you there, at least with most things. I used to be worse about things touching than I am now, however. As long as it's not fruit and potatoes or something dreadfully incompatible like that, I can handle it. :D (I was imagining some strange medical condition which required no food combinations. Or something.)
 
Now that would be an interesting illness!!! I'm just fussy - that's all.

Are American Sunday lunches the same as over here - or do you have something different traditionally?
 
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