Over on fanficrants someone has just related how she received a comment on her piece of fanfiction from an American, saying, "i saw on you're profile that you don't live in America so i know english isn't you're first language"
Her profile lists her as living in the United Kingdom.
There was a young curate of Salisbury Whose manners were quite halisbury-scalisbury: He wandered round Hampshire Without any pampshire Till the bishop compelled him to walisbury.
When, a few years ago, I finally found the nerve to post a piece of my fan fiction, I received a comment from a Californian gal questioning whether English was my first language. Me?? Born and bred in rural Gloucestershire!!
[Sorry, Andrew, I can't think of anything more amusing.]
On the breasts of the barmaid from Yale Was tattooed the price of the ale, While on her behind For the sake of the blind Was the same information in Braille.
They've all blurred rather, but if I tell you it was Cinderella and that Buttons spent rather a lot of time telling the audience about Prince Charming's famous balls, you can probably get an idea of the sophistication levels...
My divided by a common language internet pet peeve is people who post at comms to ask "Do Brits can a fwargl a fwargl?" As if everyone really spoke American and knew what a fwargl was, but perversely chose to call it something else.
A better example would be the question "What do Brits call a 'comforter'" - to which the obvious answer is "Someone who gives comfort", and not, and the questioner needs to know: (a)a child's dummy or (b)a quilt (or possibly duvet - I've never been able to work out exactly what function an American bed comforter performs).
This morning's example of the genre was "What do you guys call a flashlight?"
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Her profile lists her as living in the United Kingdom.
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Whose manners were quite halisbury-scalisbury:
He wandered round Hampshire
Without any pampshire
Till the bishop compelled him to walisbury.
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More pictures of Amy Pond... ;-)
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Re: More pictures of Amy Pond... ;-)
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[Sorry, Andrew, I can't think of anything more amusing.]
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I am trying to remember a joke from the panto to tell you as well, but most of them were too rude for me to understand.
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*dunks biscuit*
There must have been one clean one ... (or at least, on eyou can quote verbatim, even if you didn't understand it? ;-) )
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Was tattooed the price of the ale,
While on her behind
For the sake of the blind
Was the same information in Braille.
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Of a second-hand portable font
Will exchange for the same
A signed photo (with frame)
Of the Bishop elect of Vermont.
I saw a portable font the other day, actually...
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This morning's example of the genre was "What do you guys call a flashlight?"
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