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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Luckily, I don't give a shit about what you think is credible. American English is a recognised standardised form of English. It's taught in schools, written in dictionaries and spoken by the government. Go and read a beginner's guide to sociolinguistics and then I might, might start caring about what you deem credible.

Oh please. The only reason you use it is because your ancestors wanted to get away from the English as much as possible and now use a bastardized form of it.

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Originally posted by Fledz Oh please. The only reason you use it is because your ancestors wanted to get away from the English as much as possible and now use a bastardized form of it.

J is British (English, actually).

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That makes it even worse then

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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY I fucking hate it when I have to talk to a black person or hear one and they can't say the word "ask" properly. WTF it's not a hard word to pronounce. You were born on America, its not "aks" or "axe" it's ask u fucking idiot.

I worked with someone who went to an Ivy League school then Harvard Law, and she used the word 'aks/ax'

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel Well considering that, do you approve of the "African-American" label for blacks that have no idea of their origin?

This reminds me of an interview I saw on TV a few years ago with Nelson Mandela. The American journo referred to him as being 'African-American' for the whole interview...

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Originally posted by Brizzo "It's all gone Pete Tong" is actually a phrase in Europe, England I believe. Pretty sure that's where Pete Tong got his DJ name from as well.

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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY I fucking hate it when I have to talk to a black person or hear one and they can't say the word "ask" properly. WTF it's not a hard word to pronounce. You were born on America, its not "aks" or "axe" it's ask u fucking idiot.

That's so fucking ironic.

Can you please send me an audio file of you saying the words "vase" and "herb"?

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Originally posted by fbgdavidson This reminds me of an interview I saw on TV a few years ago with Nelson Mandela. The American journo referred to him as being 'African-American' for the whole interview...

That's gold. I see nothing wrong with the word black.

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Originally posted by Fledz That's gold. I see nothing wrong with the word black.

Every one of my black friends loathes the term and thinks it is stupid and counter-productive. I think it's funny when white people feel they are doing them a favor by using the term.

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Originally posted by Beat Blog That's so fucking ironic. Can you please send me an audio file of you saying the words "vase" and "herb"?

I'm way to lazy for that

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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY I'm way to lazy for that

Do you say "voz" and "hurb"? You do, don't you?

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Originally posted by david.michael Do you say "voz" and "hurb"? You do, don't you?

and "huge" is pronounced w/o sounding the "h"