Not helping the stereotype...

[Furball]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1290248,00.html

Miami Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder has admitted not knowing people speak English in London.

Quite funny

Reminds me of some people i met in Tempe.

This is the cherry on the cake: -

"That's the closest thing I know to London. He's black, so I'm sure he's not from London. I'm sure that's a coincidental name."

[sluggish]

Which stereotype?  The one about minorities not knowing geography or the one about Americans not giving a hoot about anything outside it's borders?

[Stang]

Furby you gonna go to the game?

[JB73]

at that article.


no one ever said athletes were teh smart though

[Furball]

Originally posted by Stang
Furby you gonna go to the game?

They all sold out within minutes.  

I enjoyed yank football when i was over there, didn't understand a lot of it, but it is a great excuse to sit there for hours drinking beer.

The stadium they are playing in is something else, was only recently completed.  

[SkyRock]

Well, at least that guy had the guts to admit his weakness.  He didn't sound embarrassed about it, he just said he doesn't know geography.  I'm going to go out on a limb and say that he knows more NFL offensives and defensives than the average bloke though.

[storch]

actually he's correct.  I can't understand much of what you guys say over there, therefore is must not be english.  the same thing occurs to me in spain though.  those guys don't speak spanish over there in spain.

[AquaShrimp]

They don't speak American English of course.  They speak a bastardized retarded form.

[expat]

no such thing as american english!
It is just english

[AquaShrimp]

American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), also known as United States English or U.S. English, is a set of dialects of the English language used mostly in the United States.

 Differences between British English and American English
Main article: American and British English differences
American English and British English (BrE) differ at the levels of phonology, phonetics, vocabulary, and, to a lesser extent, grammar and orthography. The first large American dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English Language, was written by Noah Webster in 1828; Webster intended to show that the United States, which was a relatively new country at the time, spoke a different dialect from Britain.

Differences in grammar are relatively minor, and normally do not affect mutual intelligibility; these include, but are not limited to: different use of some verbal auxiliaries; formal (rather than notional) agreement with collective nouns; different preferences for the past forms of a few verbs (e.g. learn, burn, sneak, dive, get); different prepositions and adverbs in certain contexts (e.g. AmE in school, BrE at school; and whether or not a definite article is used in a few cases (AmE to the hospital, BrE to hospital). Often, these differences are a matter of relative preferences rather than absolute rules; and most are not stable, since the two varieties are constantly influencing each other.[2]

Differences in orthography are also fairly trivial. Some of the forms that now serve to distinguish American from British spelling (color for colour, center for centre, traveler for traveller, etc.) were introduced by Noah Webster himself; others are due to spelling tendencies in Britain from the 17th century until the present day (e.g. -ise for -ize, programme for program, skilful for skillful, chequered for checkered, etc.), in some cases favored by the francophile tastes of 19th century Victorian England, which had little effect on AmE.[3]

The most noticeable differences between AmE and BrE are at the levels of pronunciation and vocabulary.

[expat]

So what your saying is that American english is a dialect of English , so basically it's like a regional accent ...
One more thing you said English is a bastardized retarded version of American English , now how could that be as English was around  before America was a country .......

[lasersailor184]

Originally posted by expat
So what your saying is that American english is a dialect of English , so basically it's like a regional accent ...
One more thing you said English is a bastardized retarded version of American English , now how could that be as English was around  before America was a country .......

Because by beating that country in 2 wars, and saving it in 2 more, we've taken the rights to use "English" how we see fit.

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by expat
So what your saying is that American english is a dialect of English , so basically it's like a regional accent ...
One more thing you said English is a bastardized retarded version of American English , now how could that be as English was around  before America was a country .......

Dialect is much too large a difference, American vs British English probably does not rise to the level denoting different dialects.

The English that Colonists and 17th century Londoners spoke concurrently differs significantly from that which either side of the pond speaks today.

The American and the British versions of the language are both bastardized forms of the mother tongue.

[expat]

What rubbish ! not going to argue the beat us bit but the saved us bit ....

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by expat

What rubbish ! not going to argue the beat us bit but the saved us bit ....

We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old. .
--some English guy

Seems Americans are not the only ones with faulty educations.