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I got into an argument with a very arrogant, know-it-all Brit because he thought "flashlight" was stupid. "It's a torch, what else would you call it? Why do Americans have to dumb everything down? Would you call a speaker a soundout? A sock a footglove?" (of course he completely ignores the British tendency to infantilize words, like "telly")

I told him "torch" means "stick on fucking fire" -- not "tube with batteries and a light on the end," and that I'll take my flashlight, and he can shove his torch in his dark places.

lol they call elevators "lifts" and subways "tubes", how can he criticize us for calling something a "flashlight"?

What an asshole. Maybe they should stop putting an 'f' in when they say lieutenant.

Only once you learn how to properly pronounce "aluminium".

Every chemist I've ever met--American or not--pronounces it the American way. I'm willing to go with them on this one.

But doesn't every English-speaking country except the US use the Leftenant?

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(Anonymous) - 2014-07-01 02:15 (UTC) - Expand

Australians and British go nearly uniformly with the British pronunciation.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-07-01 02:59 (UTC) - Expand

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mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com - 2014-07-01 11:35 (UTC) - Expand

Remind me, how do you pronounce 'colonel'? Phonetically, right?

Do they not pronounce it like "kernel" in the UK? That's a strange word, anyway. Pronunciation got mixed up by a version of French.

ayrt

Yeah, that's my point. Americans are all OMG IT'S LOO-TENANT NOT LEF-TENANT and think it's beyond weird while pronouncing colonel the way that it's pronounced. Something you don't use personally =/= non-sense making.

And yes, the British pronunciation for lieutenant is influenced by French while the American one isn't, but they do use the French pronunciation for colonel, so it's dumb for them to get confused about one while doing exactly the same thing for another word.

A sock a footglove?

In the wild wild world that is the German language, sure! Hand (hand) + Schuh (shoe) = Handschuh (glove)

Genius!

Edited 2014-06-30 23:35 (UTC)

In Japanese, gloves are hand-bags!

They must get very confused when they hear English speakers talking about all the stuff they keep in their handbags.

Oh yes. We have lots of wonderful words that are simply stuck-together desciptions for what a thing does. Like Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher.

Google Translate gave me "eggshell breaking points polluter". I'm giggling and trying to figure out what it is. Is it a garbage disposal?

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(Anonymous) - 2014-07-01 01:59 (UTC) - Expand

German is awesome. I love their smush words.

Same in Dutch: handschoen.

lol, nice retort

This from a country that calls kissing snogging?

Yeah, snogging sounds like it would be gross, too close to the word snot.

*eyeroll* at all the supercilious Americans on this thread thinking that because they know a few slang British-English words, it's how British people actually speak all the time. We don't.

But of course you are the experts on our culture, how arrogant of me to claim otherwise.

fuck off wanker

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(Anonymous) - 2014-07-01 14:59 (UTC) - Expand

I thought the snogging comment above was more lighthearted than supercilious, but whatever floats your boat.

I <3 u.

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