AG RULES!

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:34 am

thats kinda like what happened to my dad, he had grey eyes but when he grew up they turned hazel.

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:38 am

yeah. its the same language, but spelled so many ways! well, good thing its not that confusing. I've been on neopets(run in britain) since i was 7, and now i spell 'fairy' 'faerie' it always drives my teachers nuts, even though i barely use the word.

Doll Nut! Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 1621

yeah, i neopets i noticed they always spell color as "colour" and same w/ favorite and other words...

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:41 am

yeah and i learned that right when i learned to spell bigger words, my parents spent years trying to make me spell things the 'right' way again. my teachers sometimes like take points off of essays because of using brittish spelling, i guess they think im making it up or somehting..

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:42 am

Lol yeah, some of my teachers are like "Spell things the American way!" and I'm like "Uh.. no, I'd rather not, thanks".

Even though I know how to spell things "American-like", when I write I automatically spell things the way I was taught. Why go over ever sentence I write and have to white-out every word I spell differently?

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:47 am

yeah. i started spell-checking everything to make sure it was the way my teachers wanted it, because i would have to go to a language arts and spelling elective class instead of drama class, which would be horrible, so i have to be very careful now.

Doll Nut! Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 1621

lol, omg, since me and lia go to the same school, we have one of the same teachers, he is a history teacher, and a pe teacher, lia has him for pe, i have him for history, omg, and then he had a sub today, and he is from like new york or something, and his accent is so funny!!!! i was cracking up! it seemed like everyone was! it's so funny!!! and some kids where all like making fun of him, like this one kid behind me was all like, mimicking hime (i'm just gonna right it the way he sounds) "wyite down the fouy sentences" and then he sounds like an english person when he changes his voice to the wrongs that come to the new york accent! like he goes from an english accent, then it sounds like he is speaking an english accent! Laughing

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:51 am

oh, yes i had him for PE class, and he was like 'hi clayass, howdaya do ya physicul edyacation in cali, 'cause im sure ya dun wanna do it da new yok way"

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:52 am

Does he pahk the cah in Hahvahd yahd?

Lol Razz

(I shouldn't be poking fun because I'm non-rhotic too!)

Doll Nut! Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 1621

seriously? he said that? well, i think he was talking to this one kid, and he was all like laughing at hime b/c of his accent i guess, but he didn't relize that, so he was all llike, "what aye you the class clown?" lol

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:02 am

lol, he was talking to all of us, but he was so strict! he didnt even let us play horse unless we were like 3 feet behind the freethrow line Shocked

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:03 am

The NY accent is strange though. They pronounce words like "the" as "da" and... well it's terribly unrefined.

Doll Nut! Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 1621

i know and they pronounce the "r" as the "y" lol. it's just to funny...to funny...
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it was so funny too, kuz this one girl was hiccoping, (sp) and he was like, "get up in fyont of da class" "and hiccop in fyont of them" first she wouldn't do it, then he forst her to, and she kept laughing, and he was all like, "common, why don't you hiccoup for eveyyone?"

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:05 am

yeah. like, most state accents are more rounded out but you can still tell what they are saying most of the time, but hte new york accent is very different.

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:08 am

Yeah, it's the only accent in America that is non-rhotic (not pronouncing "r's")

Southern accent's are odd too, they pronounce alot of "i's" as "a's". Like.. "Ah didn't know skadavin was a crahme."