Are You From America or Britain? Say Hi to a Newcomer!

[vix43]

I'm new here so i just thought I'd say hi. It's a bit scary 'cos you all seem to be from America and I'm a Brit born and bred.
I'm sure you are all very nice people though!

Luv vix

 

[member 5645]

Don't be afraid - Americans are just British light Or is it the other way around?

 

[dduardo]

Don't be afraid - Americans are just British light Or is it the other way around?

I think you mean Americans are Brits without the funny accent.

 

[Monique]

I think both the americans and the brits have a funny accent

 

[vix43]

Hey, we don't have a funny accent!
Well I don't, I've got a yorkshire accent, It's the Londoners that talk funny. One of my mates is a Londoner and I always take the mick out of his accent!

 

[Stanley_Smith]

Well, welcome to PF Vix43 :)

Don't be afraid cause Brits and Anericans are like brothers and sisters !

Enjoy the forum !

 

[Evo]

Welcome vix43! Actually, you will find a lot of Brits here. Jimmy p & Andy are two of my favorites.

 

[jimmy p]

Hey hey! Yeah I'm a Brit! w00t! I think the Yorkshire accent is pretty funny... no offence

Welcome aboard!

Jimmy

 

[vix43]

Thanks everyone!

I'm sure I will enjoy it here, you seem like nice peeps
Eee by gum! <------- Just for you, Jimmy P!

 

[check]

I know how you feel. I'm Canadian and constantly fear chastisement from the board.

 

[Andy]

Hey, I prefer to be referred to as English, don't like associateing with the welsh, lol. I am from the New Forest so when i talk i sound much like a farmer and don't sound my H's. lol.

ope you enjoy your time here.

Oh and thanks Evo, your my favourite on the forum.

 

[Njorl]

Welcome,

I think I don't know if I'd recognize a Yorkshire accent. Is it like a Lancashire accent? I think I can recognize Cornwall, Cockney, Liverpool, Lancashire. I made one trip to England years ago. I'm glad I watched all that English TV, or I wouldn't have understood anyone. Thank God for Monty Python.

Njorl

 

[vix43]

Yeah, I suppose it is a bit like the lancashire accent, but a bit less exagerated. I take it you watched Coronation Street then to get a taste of the Lancashire accent!

 

[The Bob]

Welcome vix43. I believe that Andy has a point. We want to be called English people. Sharing a name with the Welsh is not a good experience. Trust me on that. Haven't been here long myself so I am not a favourite or even a good friend but Jimmyp is quality.

Wow. Yorkshire. What part? My mother comes from Yorkshire. I am northern bred but not born or lived. Never mind. I have my accent.

Welcome again.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[vix43]

Thanks Bob

Yeah, Andy does have a point. I like to be called English too and not be associated with the irish,lol! (bad experience with an Irish person )

I'm from the East Coast. Bridlington infact. Oh, and brilliant seaside resort so come and have your holidays here! (sorry, just thought i'd big it up while I can! )

So what part is your mother from?

Vix

 

[The Bob]

Thanks Bob

Yeah, Andy does have a point. I like to be called English too and not be associated with the irish,lol! (bad experience with an Irish person )

I'm from the East Coast. Bridlington infact. Oh, and brilliant seaside resort so come and have your holidays here! (sorry, just thought i'd big it up while I can! )

So what part is your mother from?

Vix

Going to the North. Intresting. Not done it for a while.

My mother is from Swinton, South Yorkshire. Must say that because she doesn't like it when people think it is Swinton in Manchester or the other place. LOL

Ok what about the Scottish? Any bad experiences? Must have one pr it is not complete.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[vix43]

Och noooooooooo! Not the scottish! I can't understand a word they say! I can't stand Lorraine kelly either and to make things worse, she is going to present 'This Morning' with Phillip Schofield every Monday and Friday starting in the Autumn! Nooooooooo! It's a shame 'cos fern Britton is really good with Phil. It's a shame she has to cut down the days.

Sorry, had a bit of a rant there

 

[The Bob]

Och noooooooooo! Not the scottish! I can't understand a word they say! I can't stand Lorraine kelly either and to make things worse, she is going to present 'This Morning' with Phillip Schofield every Monday and Friday starting in the Autumn! Nooooooooo! It's a shame 'cos fern Britton is really good with Phil. It's a shame she has to cut down the days.

Sorry, had a bit of a rant there

No problem. I like to hear it. So we only like the english from Great Britain? Quality. Anyway hope you are learning from these great people in the forums. They are fab. Watch out for the normal lot (i.e. Jimmyp, Andy, Njorl, Gokul, Monquie, Evo, Tsunami, Ivan Seeking etc. (<---- Some of my favourite people)). Yer and you may get things named after you. I got a skunk named after me. Quality or what? Loving these forums. You will too.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[vix43]

Cheers Bob

ooh, I can't really imagine a skunk called vix43?!

C you around then

vix

 

[The Bob]

Cheers Bob

ooh, I can't really imagine a skunk called vix43?!

C you around then

vix

'Black Vix'? Might be good

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[Andy]

The Irish arent that bad when you get them drunk, a sober irishman is very hard to find though, the welsh just stink and the scottish are too barbaric for my liking, and they all talk funny, that's all of the Irish Welsh and Scottish. In fact they all smell.

 

[Monique]

And the English are very tolerant people right?

 

[vix43]

a sober irishman is very hard to find though.

Couldn't agree more!

I used to have a teacher who was irish called Miss Ward (God, I HATED her! )
Anyway, she sent me out one day for smiling at her, and I had never been sent out of a lesson in my life at all. (oh yes, i was a goody goody! ) She must have been on the booze to do that. Oh, and she looked like a potatoe. She was also a chain smoker and always fagged away in her car (VW Golf. Just thought you'd want to know what make of car she had. )

 

[The Bob]

And the English are very tolerant people right?

We are very tolerant people. Anyway you try talking to the scotiish and you can't understand a word they say. You know Sean Connery? Well he is scottish and some english people find him difficult to understand (and his accent is small!) The welsh accent is better but the people behind them are a bit unusual and think of the strangest things. The irish are mostly fine but they are always drunk so nothing sensable will happen.

So the english are the best.

The Bob (2004 ©)

P.S. How did this conversation start anyway?

 

[Andy]

Tolerant is my middle name.

 

[The Bob]

Tolerant is my middle name.

You said it mate. The Brits are every tolerant.

The Bob (2004 ©) [Fighting this thread for the truth of England].

 

[Gokul43201]

Funny to hear about a guy from Yorkshire complain about foreign accents. But I've heard that from Geoff Boycott too...and half the cricketing world is clueless when he talks.

 

[The Bob]

Funny to hear about a guy from Yorkshire complain about foreign accents. But I've heard that from Geoff Boycott too...and half the cricketing world is clueless when he talks.

Yer well I must say that northern accents are quite strange but as my parents are northern I have a mild accent as well. I pronunce my words correctly. No Rs in an words like grass and glass. I do like hybrids of northern accents though. My friend from durham has a half durham half newcastle accent. I know they are close together but it is a funny mix.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[vix43]

Well I don't think northern accents are strange at all. I am very proud of my Yorkshire accent!

 

[The Bob]

Well I don't think northern accents are strange at all. I am very proud of my Yorkshire accent!

I should think so to. There is nothing wrong with it. My problem is that my dad has one accent and my mum another. I have to tune in a lot.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[Shahil]

British accents?

One thing that does make me laugh all the time! The British invented English but nobody else can understand them when they talk! hehe!

Seriously, welcome aboard vix43!

Just a Q. for you Brits? Do you still get those people who talk proper "Queen's English" as it can be called which sounds like the person is reciting words with their proper pronounciations from the Oxford Dictionary? Or are these people a dying breed being taken over by the younger, more "understandable" generation?

Also, loved Brad Pitt's accent in Snatch! Where's that from??

 

[The Bob]

British accents?

One thing that does make me laugh all the time! The British invented English but nobody else can understand them when they talk! hehe!

Seriously, welcome aboard vix43!

Just a Q. for you Brits? Do you still get those people who talk proper "Queen's English" as it can be called which sounds like the person is reciting words with their proper pronounciations from the Oxford Dictionary? Or are these people a dying breed being taken over by the younger, more "understandable" generation?

Also, loved Brad Pitt's accent in Snatch! Where's that from??

The British are great. I would, however, say that being a Brit but heck that is life.

The Queen's English is still used. I use it know and again or get it in my conversations but I jusy mix accents up from time to time and can sound like I am from Portsmouth one minute and then from Newcastle the next or a Londoner or a Welshman (not used much mind you). I just mix it all up. It is English so I use it.

Never seen Snatch. Sorry.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[vix43]

Seriously, welcome aboard vix43!

Just a Q. for you Brits? Do you still get those people who talk proper "Queen's English" as it can be called which sounds like the person is reciting words with their proper pronounciations from the Oxford Dictionary?

Also, loved Brad Pitt's accent in Snatch! Where's that from??

Cheers Shahill

Well you don't get those posh talking snobs in my area!

I haven't seen Snatch either, but from what I gather he was talking cockney I think (london accent ) I love that accent!

 

[Gokul43201]

Snatch was neat.

Vix, here's where we all come from : https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=6714

 

[Tsu]

'Black Vix'? Might be good

The Bob (2004 ©)

Wouldn't that be Black Addervix? :surprise:

 

[The Bob]

Wouldn't that be Black Addervix? :surprise:

Could be (<--------------------the face I want to use is not here. It is more of a erm... well it is hard to describe. It is more of my school kind of face).

Oh and there is nothing wrong with common accents. Just that my drama teacher told us off for speaknig posh and so we tried to sound common and she still said we were too posh. We argued that this is how we would sound at a party. Random women.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[Andy]

Your not from Pompey are you Bob?

 

[The Bob]

Your not from Pompey are you Bob?

Aye. I live nearer to it than Soton. Chopnik has already told me you two come from Soton.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[Andy]

The real question is, do you like football and do you support either the Mighty Saints or pompey?

 

[The Bob]

The real question is, do you like football and do you support either the Mighty Saints or pompey?

Well I do not support a football team but my Soton friend (from my local ACF band) said that I support Saints so I guess (without meaning to) I support the Saints.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[jimmy p]

And the English are very tolerant people right?

Anyone who can stand to be neighbours to the Welsh and the Scottish must be tolerant!

 

[The Bob]

Anyone who can stand to be neighbours to the Welsh and the Scottish must be tolerant!

Indeed

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[Shahil]

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