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Don't you just hate Americans?: THEY SHOULD WATCH THEIR LANGUAGE ON SUMMER VACATION.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005

THEY SHOULD WATCH THEIR LANGUAGE ON SUMMER VACATION.

With Dark Dreamer - and no doubt many more of you heading for the UK - I thought this extract from the Travel Further American British Dictionary might prove useful. If you have other examples of the differences between American and British English, please let me have them - or comment on those... Sign in to see full entry.

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Don't you just hate Americans? Everything about them is so utterly crass, so second-rate – from the sloppy way they dress to their junk food and whinging nasal twang. If only they’d leave us alone. But, being Yanks, they won’t, or can't. To a man – even, it seems, to a woman – their sole aim in life is to turn us into Uncle Sams. Sadly, here in the United Kingdom it’s working all too well. Monopoly control of film distribution and cheap TV series ensure American ‘culture’ is everywhere. The result? Massive sales of Levi jeans, MacDonalds burgers, Ford and GM cars, Starbucks coffee, Budweiser beer, Jack Daniel’s whiskey, Dell and Macintosh computers – you name it. And all, in the end, to the detriment of our own native culture. However, for us British it doesn’t have to be this way. From today – appropriately, the eve of Prince Charles' and Camilla Barker-Bowles' historic wedding – let’s strive to make a stand against American encroachment. Let’s, for example: • S

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