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“Portuguese”

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I didn’t spot that!

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You guys invented English, we perfected it.

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*butchered it

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Yeah, well, y’all’rn’t doin’ anything interesting with it, so we made it better.

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made it better

“Had to have it simplified because we’re a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic”

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Fair point about interesting, I will say the variety of different American slangs and vernaculars are bordering on being classed as distinct dialects which is fascinating. Not to mention niche culture terms like “based” becoming mainstream amongst the Anglosphere.

Which is one of the things, biased as I am about my native language, I like about English: it will accept any commonly spoken enough words into the dictionary.

So in that respect, I propose an exchange of terms that I think Americans might enjoy using:

“Naff” - lacking in style or good taste: vulgar and unfashionable. I think this would be great due to the distinct difference in the ‘AA’ vowl that would be delightful in a southern drawl. It originally came from Polari and Carnival Speak and has fallen out of fashion (ironically) but I think could see a new lease of life on your continent.

“Mithering” - To make an unnecessary fuss or moan. Since I’ve seen a lot of clips from Game Of Thrones around Americans liking the use of “Whinging” over “Whining” I think y’all would like an alternative to “Bothering”.

“Bodge / Bodged” - to do something clumsily or quickly as a temporary measure. I think this one would be excellent as an alternative to “Jerry-rig / Jerry-rigged”. Especially as an enjoyer of high-quality “Redneck-engineering” which I occasionally come across on my feeds. Because there’s an art to throwing something together with what you have around you based on experience and guesswork that somehow just works beautifully right when you need it to.

Especially with America’s history of large and successful inventions spawning from garages much like in the UK coming from small garden sheds all starting from barely-working prototypes.

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It’s all a bit shit tbh mate

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Nah, but it is shite

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took out some unnecessary letters, changed how to spell gray so everyone’s always confused about which is right. overall good stuff

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Aww is the empire sad they got out-empired?

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UK : English (Traditional)
US : English (Simplified)

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Ours is the traditional pronunciation. You fucks changed it after we left because you didn’t like to sound like provincial rebels.

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We didn’t start talking like “yeehaw partner this gas station has some skibidi rizz, no cap fanum tax! Also this is a bruhhh moment, what the dawg doin’? Legit demure!”

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Christ, we can’t even have a c/britishproblems without the yanks coming and sticking their oars in.

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We’re like your little brother that keeps popping up when you least expect him.

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To be fair, English could really use some simplification. It’s fucking bonkers.

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Webster should have spelled the words the way they sounded while he was dropping all those u’s.

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ew

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