Dialects, got to love them

[k0ua]

Sometimes people forget that many French soldier continued to fight during WW2 both in uniform with British forces and also as partisans in their own country. Also many Poles and Czech's fought in the battle of Britain as pilots to defend the UK. In fact some of those pilots were the most successful pilots in number of confirmed kills.

No. 303 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia

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[Sigarms]

Also many Poles and Czech's fought in the battle of Britain as pilots to defend the UK. In fact some of those pilots were the most successful pilots in number of confirmed kills.

No. 303 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia

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As well did some Americans.

Hopefully we'll never see a "world war" again.

At the end of the day, the US did help win WW2, but the reality is I don't think we could of done it (win) by ourselves (added the fact that Germany had to major fronts on each sides of each other). The French IMO just get a bad rap due to their government during that time frame. What kid during early years of history class in school didn't think that the French had their head up their butt when they came up with the Maginot line?

Ironcially enough, history was lost on the US after the French got it handed to them at Dein Bien Phu after WW2.

 

[fried1765]

For the record, I can only guess that's a made up story.

I do not know.....but I like it!

I call BS on all the versions.

1 - Don't blame the soldier for the governments action, lack of action or strategy. I get the fact that we bust on the French, but it wasn't the French soldier, but the French government.

2 - I'd be willing to wager that the people in France probably reconize the US soldier more on their own soil than Americans reconize their soldiers who fought during the same time frame on our soil. We've never had an invader on our soil, in part due to geography. People tend to forget that the French were and are still very grateful for the help they recieved during WW2.

Per the original story of a veteran being asked for his passport when he was going to visit Normandy, it's a very simple story to knock the Fr

As well did some Americans.

Hopefully we'll never see a "world war" again.

At the end of the day, the US did help win WW2, but the reality is I don't think we could of done it (win) by ourselves (added the fact that Germany had to major fronts on each sides of each other). The French IMO just get a bad rap due to their government during that time frame. What kid during early years of history class in school didn't think that the French had their head up their butt when they came up with the Maginot line?

Ironcially enough, history was lost on the US after the French got it handed to them at Dein Bien Phu after WW2.

We will likely not see another "world war" again.
We are being slowly boiled (as a frog) from within!

 

[Sigarms]

I do not know.....but I like it!



We will likely not see another "world war" again.
We are being slowly boiled (as a frog) from within!

Honestly, it's not that bad of a story, but the reality is sometimes people believe whatever they read on the internet, and take it for a fact because it's written.

When you think about the story you related, there are a bunch of holes in it, but it's easier just to like it

When it comes to wars, given human nature and our own history along with world history, added how nations are now dependent on each other for world trade, I just pray my kids won't see one in their time.

There is this commandment that God gave us a long time ago about killing each other that we can never seem to grasp and follow as a species. Even if you're an athiest, it's still a pretty good rule to live by. No different than knowing you're tresspassing on someone elses property, and yet you still tresspass because you don't respect your neighbor. Trying get the train back on the tracks after a train derailment here

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
Some people generally seem to confuse fiction with life. I've been watching movie clips on Youtube to help pick out some good ones to watch; some of the comments make me want to post "It's a MOVIE, for Pete's sake. Those people are actors, that isn't how they are in real life."

This is the dialect thread not the purple trespass, however. I think your train may have gotten on the wrong track at the switching station.

 

[bcp]

Reminds me of the people who called the Coast Guard with tips on how they could find Gilligan.

Bruce

 

[Steppenwolfe]

We are being slowly boiled (as a frog) from within!

Then work to change it...

 

[Sigarms]

This is the dialect thread not the purple trespass, however. I think your train may have gotten on the wrong track at the switching station.

No, I saw a train on on the right, and saw another train on the left, and I thought I had hopped on the train on the left but, instead it was the one on the right LOL

Working on spreadsheets and get sidetracked because it's Sunday and I'm not supposed to be working. That sounds like a halfway legitimate excuse

 

[redman135]

A New Zealand view.
Oakland Ca and Auckland New Zealand, A californian managed to accidently get on an Air New Zealand plane From LA to Auckland because Auckland (nz accent) sounds similar to Oakland (CA accent). 90's or earlier. Only relised he was on wrong plane when the pilot made a midflight announcement.
Look up NZHearld newspaper. Was a good laugh at the time.

Internationally people complain the New Zealand accent is hard to follow because we speak so fast.
French airport: Trying to check luggage in. French attendent's ear could not tell difference between
check in and chicken,could not understand the poultry referance, had to speak very slowly to clear up misunderstanding.
One tourist complaint that got a laugh,"you NZer's and Italians spit words like bullets". That tourist chewed his words like chewing gum, then let them out of his mouth.

"I" problem, speciffically India and Ireland. To the NZ ear the words are hard to catch due to the lilt. To Irish the NZ accent is a flat drone, and hard to understand. Indians also complain the NZ accent is very flat and hard to understand.

US dialect: dates, US = month /day ie 9/11, 11th sept. NZ = day/month ie 9/11, 9th november.
US 10 wheeler =3 axle truck. NZ 6 wheeler =3 axle truck (dual wheels are counted as 1 wheel)
US timber= thickness x width ie 2x4 NZ timber= width x thickness ie 4x2
US attatchment NZ impliment
Add these little differences to a strange/ unfamilier accent and it can be entertaining from the outside or in hindsight.
Happy chuckles

 

[fried1765]

Then work to change it...

You can certainly free to do that "change it" work!
At 80, I am essentially in the I no longer give a Sh-t category!

 

[/pine]

Some people generally seem to confuse fiction with life....

...just for the record...some people confuse the term dialect with what is actually just colloquial vernacular...

Like down here in the true south...we call that hominy/corn dish served at breakfast (and other meals) that is usually served with butter and sometimes cheese is called "Grey-its"...

 

[Alan W.]

Have had my talk ridiculed most of my life.
Im ok with it.
Last place I worked before retiring was pretty bad. My manager, the first day was asking me things like what do you call what a chicken lays and what do you call those things you stand on. She was a hoot but a co worker tried to constantly correct my english. One day in a meeting I informed them that our fork lift needed new tars to which my co worker said dont you mean tires and I showed her my meeting agenda where I had wrote
Replace fork lift TARS.
Manager busted out laughing co worker not so much.

While working as a construction superintendent the controlling partner would call me on speaker phone so his cohorts could listen to me. He would call from various bars around the country asking me questions that according to him my country ass would know. Most memorable one was do people really eat possums. I told him I had a neighbor that would eat the nasty ass things.
Got a call from the partners to meet them at a bar one afternoon to meet a saleslady they were thinking of using so she could hear me talk. I was setting there nursing a coke and looking at my watch when somewhere in her 4th apple martini she looked at me and said, Im not sleeping with you tonight. Other than the introductions I had not even spoke to her. I was tired and wanted to go home anyway.

 

[stuckmotor]

Couple years ago, never forget down around Atlanta for technical training with some customers. Class ended on Friday and there was a bunch of us from my neck of the woods. One guy brought his wife down, and they were staying overnight so his wife could check out some of the shopping. Another guy was staying for the state fire, which had me perplexed, so I asked him where they were getting the wood for a state fire, and we both looked dumbfounded, and then had a good laugh when I realized (actually mentioned about another "NC local" he meant state fair.

Last week, I met my new direct supervisor, who flew down from Boston. We're talking with another employee (born and bred in NC) and my supervisor starts asking me about pots. I'm thinking to myself what the heck does pots have anything to do with our business, and I look at my co worker, and he has the same kind of expression I do. Turns out my superviosr was talking about "parts".

I use to live on Cape Cod as a kid. Lost that accent a LONG time ago. Genearlly can pick up a New York city (or surrounding area) or Jersey accent even if someone has lived in NC as long as I have (20 years).

Made me think about how quick one can lose or gain an accent, and at what age plays a variable in the equation.

I took my boss out to eat with a customer, I was going to do Mexican, but my boss mentioned isn't NC known for BBQ? Dawned on me he wanted to eat "local". I've been in NC way to long I guess as it was interesting having our customer explain the menu to the guy from New England and the things I take for granted now (BBQ slaw is NOT like cole slaw as you'd expect it from up North as one example and my boss mentioned that they know how to make sweet tea up north ).

Couple years ago, never forget down around Atlanta for technical training with some customers. Class ended on Friday and there was a bunch of us from my neck of the woods. One guy brought his wife down, and they were staying overnight so his wife could check out some of the shopping. Another guy was staying for the state fire, which had me perplexed, so I asked him where they were getting the wood for a state fire, and we both looked dumbfounded, and then had a good laugh when I realized (actually mentioned about another "NC local" he meant state fair.

Last week, I met my new direct supervisor, who flew down from Boston. We're talking with another employee (born and bred in NC) and my supervisor starts asking me about pots. I'm thinking to myself what the heck does pots have anything to do with our business, and I look at my co worker, and he has the same kind of expression I do. Turns out my superviosr was talking about "parts".

I use to live on Cape Cod as a kid. Lost that accent a LONG time ago. Genearlly can pick up a New York city (or surrounding area) or Jersey accent even if someone has lived in NC as long as I have (20 years).

Made me think about how quick one can lose or gain an accent, and at what age plays a variable in the equation.

I took my boss out to eat with a customer, I was going to do Mexican, but my boss mentioned isn't NC known for BBQ? Dawned on me he wanted to eat "local". I've been in NC way to long I guess as it was interesting having our customer explain the menu to the guy from New England and the things I take for granted now (BBQ slaw is NOT like cole slaw as you'd expect it from up North as one example and my boss mentioned that they know how to make sweet tea up north ).

The guy who called parts pots reminds me of someone I knew who used called a cart a "cot"
There was a guy from the NC mountains who cslled tires " tars". I've read it's common up there.
My father and his family were from a largely Scotts Irish area in the low country of SC and I always wondered where they got their distinctive pronunciations. Last year, I heard one of those pronunciations, on youtube and contacted the presenter to ask if he was from Northern Ireland, the place where I'm told the Scotts Irish lived before coming here. Sure enough, he's from Ulster.

 

[bunyip]

Weren't dialects enemies of Dr Who....

 

[Frankenkubota]

The guy who called parts pots reminds me of someone I knew who used called a cart a "cot"
There was a guy from the NC mountains who cslled tires " tars". I've read it's common up there.
My father and his family were from a largely Scotts Irish area in the low country of SC and I always wondered where they got their distinctive pronunciations. Last year, I heard one of those pronunciations, on youtube and contacted the presenter to ask if he was from Northern Ireland, the place where I'm told the Scotts Irish lived before coming here. Sure enough, he's from Ulster.

my grandmother was from belfast. i couldn't understand squat and the problem was, she would smack you just because she thought you were messing with her.

The car jumped over the mon was...

the cow jumped over the moon.

Robin Williams played a pretty good scotsman both in his description of golf (hilarious and accurate) and in the movie, i married an ax murderer....something like that.

I remember in the movie at the wedding the bag pipe player passed out drunk and the very scottish dad started yelling...A piper is down......very funny

 

[Sigarms]

Weren't dialects enemies of Dr Who....

Guess that would depend on your dalek

Consider myself lucky, growning up, I only knew one man who played Captain Kirk and one Captain Picard LOL

 

[RalphVa]

Aussies are infamous for dropping an 'r' in their pronunciations; Cairns is pronounced 'Cans'. (Not to be confused with the film festival place 'Cannes') Anyway...

I was having my motorcycle worked on whilst I was at work and went to their Showroom to pay for it. It turned out that their workshop was a few 'doors' down the road at the "ca-pa". The what? The "ca-pa".

Oh, the car park. <I still chuckle about that>

Like "Melbun" for Melbourne".

 

[RalphVa]

Singaporeans are bad about picking up the worst of the way English pronounce English and adding their own.

We once asked a Singaporean where some place was. We took a while to sort out what he said. He said, "Out behind tha cah pahk." Behind the car park.

 

[check]

What else is it called James?

A parking lot?

 

[CobyRupert]

I call internet myth on all the versions.
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2 ….. We've never had an invader on our soil, in part due to geography. People tend to forget that the French were and are still very grateful for the help they recieved during WW2.

Do you mean a FORIEGN invader? Most Americans witnessed our capital building being invaded and taken over by violence on Jan 6 2021.

Also the British invaded during the War of 1812.

Invasion of the United States - Wikipedia

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