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minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down2·1 年前British English is the OG English. They should always use that flag.
minus-squareSquirrelanna@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 年前Old English would like to have a word.
minus-squareSouthEndSunset@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前You’re another that doesn’t understand “Received Pronunciation”, aren’t you?
minus-squaremilicent_bystandr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 年前Received from the great founders of England: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Lincoln, and Lord Martin Luther King Sr I.
minus-squaremilicent_bystandr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 年前I just figured, if Old English came from America, then those great figures must be from whom we Receive Pronunciation. Or are We not amused at the fantastical American origins of true English?
minus-squareSouthEndSunset@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前No…Received Pronunciation …a posh English accent. No, I’m very amused at the idea that USAians created “the English accent”.
minus-squarestebo@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 年前yeah otherwise you might as well use the Australian flag or whatever
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 年前Or even the Canadian flag, to make it even more fun for the US people lol
minus-squarestebo@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 年前ok that’s even better yeah and also Canadian for french, because it’s never wrong to mess with the french
minus-squareSquirrelanna@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 年前Well if we want get technical it’s roots are in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands.
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前Well if we want to get technical its roots are in the Indo-European which comes from the Iranian plateau
minus-squareSquirrelanna@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 年前I replied to the wrong person but you are right!
British English is the OG English. They should always use that flag.
Old English would like to have a word.
Old English, where is that from?
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America
You’re another that doesn’t understand “Received Pronunciation”, aren’t you?
Received from the great founders of England: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Lincoln, and Lord Martin Luther King Sr I.
I don’t get the joke sorry.
I just figured, if Old English came from America, then those great figures must be from whom we Receive Pronunciation.
Or are We not amused at the fantastical American origins of true English?
No…Received Pronunciation …a posh English accent.
No, I’m very amused at the idea that USAians created “the English accent”.
yeah otherwise you might as well use the Australian flag or whatever
Or even the Canadian flag, to make it even more fun for the US people lol
ok that’s even better yeah
and also Canadian for french, because it’s never wrong to mess with the french
Well if we want get technical it’s roots are in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands.
Well if we want to get technical its roots are in the Indo-European which comes from the Iranian plateau
I replied to the wrong person but you are right!