Thread: Yanks Vs the Aussies and Brits

  1. 10-01-2001 #31
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    At least we have real beer, whole new kettle of fish, but I won't slag of Australian and american beers/lagers here, especially since I'm a whiskey person.

    The Australian cricket team are, normally, in a league of their own, no-one comes close. It was real sporting of you to declare real early so we'd win one.

    The problem is more, there's no money in it for the players or for investment in youth like there is in football and the state of the game is such that no-one really wants to play it, because all the victories against pakistan or however get dismissed as unimportant and then we get hammered by the best in the world and its front page news.

    We we're doing quite well in test cricket up unitl the ashes.
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    Is it true cricket matches can last days?

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    Real proper Test cricket matches, rather than Limited Overs matches, are scheduled for, depending on whether its county or international, 4 or 5 days. Of course the Aussies can normally finish of the Brits in 1 or 2.

    How many minutes of play happen in an American Football match compared to the time between the start and finsh whistle.
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    OK.. point taken... How much of that is actual play time?
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    Assuming no delays for rain\bad weather.
    Play starts at 10:00 and carries on until between 18:00 and 19:00 depending on over rate and light.
    In this time there are three drinks breaks of 15 minutes I think and hour for lunch. Actual "play" play time in cricket is different since its more like baseball, in terms of the time inbetween deliveries being bowled.
    Cricket is a really difficult game to explain, but it you watched for half an hour and/or palyed for an afternoon you'd be able to follow most of it easily and understand how it works.
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    Hmm... I can't fathom playing a sport where you stop for lunch in the middle. Must not be too exhausting - most sports you'd die if you had to eat lunch and go right back to playing...
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    Sorry, going on another tangent, Actually back to the original topic.
    We all have heard of the element Aluminum...
    from www.dictionary.com:

    n. Symbol Al

    spelling
    aluminum

    pronunciation:
    a·lu·mi·num

    Now why the heck do some Brits pronounce it:
    a-lu-min-i-um ?

    In the spelling, I only count one 'i'
    Someone felt the urge to add yet another i and another syllable...

    Can someone explain this to me?
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    We say it like that because that's how we spell it, you may have noticed that other words differ also...

    Anyway, those australian and american accents sound as if they went all bent somewhere along the line...

    Also, I don't know what's hard about understanding the Yorkshire accent, it ain't as bent as the liverpool, cockney, birmingham accents... see that ***** on neighbours(tv soap) - to australia from England, London, well she spoke like a ***** and sounded so ****ing wierd, what a discrace to the representation factor... Also those cockneys ........ me off, watching eastenders makes me cringe seeing that old fat little lady shout ****, why don't they just STFU, you know what they're like when they're saying mo or whatever. MAOE!
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    > MAOE!

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    From dictionary.com's entry for Yankee:
    Word History: The origin of Yankee has been the subject of much debate, but the most likely source is the Dutch name Janke, meaning “little Jan” or “little John,” a nickname that dates back to the 1680s. Perhaps because it was used as the name of pirates, the name Yankee came to be used as a term of contempt. It was used this way in the 1750s by General James Wolfe, the British general who secured British domination of North America by defeating the French at Quebec. The name may have been applied to New Englanders as an extension of an original use referring to Dutch settlers living along the Hudson River. Whatever the reason, Yankee is first recorded in 1765 as a name for an inhabitant of New England. The first recorded use of the term by the British to refer to Americans in general appears in the 1780s, in a letter by Lord Horatio Nelson, no less. Around the same time it began to be abbreviated to Yank. During the American Revolution, American soldiers adopted this term of derision as a term of national pride. The derisive use nonetheless remained alive and even intensified in the South during the Civil War, when it referred not to all Americans but to those loyal to the Union. Now the term carries less emotion -- except of course for baseball fans.
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    personally, I think we should all 5t4rt t41k1n6 11k3 th15...then everyone will think we're cool.

    bloody hell! why do all of you buggers want to colour my ghoti like lager and stuff it in my flat?!

    Ok, sorry, that just sounds funny to me...of course it sounds funny in english, but even funnier in ENGLISH (other, older, more annoying english).

    About that u thing, I think me and govt contracted it from this board. is there some vaccine? I've been typing colour and such lately....
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    > The american english is great. We took the sophsticated Briten english and make it meaner, cooler, and down with it. The amercan way.

    nah, I think your just refering to ya accent...
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    ::having not read much of this thread's replies::

    speaking of "YANK"... the YANK!___MER!!! has nothing to do with yanks... weirdo coincidence tho... and i don't think i've revealed it's meaning...
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    American has alot of spanish words in it...

    America does not speak English anymore where I live. They canceled all of the english as a second language classes in school, and just throw the kids right into the classes. Its funny because all of the immagrated Mexican/Vietnamese get good grades even though I have never seen a single one of them turn in an assignment...


    American is the language it is because there are many different types of people. When I used to live in the Navajo indian Reservation they had slang/customs which I caught on to very fast, like...


    saying Shi instead of the other word....
    nodding head instead of saying hello or waving
    girls ask boys out rather than other way around
    drinking lol

    oh, and I can tell the difference from British/Aussie/Scotish/Irish
    english...
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    YANK!___MER!!!
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    AMERICANINFORMER

    Is that what it means da?
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