When I saw the title of this thread I was all set to show my contempt for that movie that Will Smith made with the same title. When he punched out that alien after the chase through the desert I thought my head would actually burst into flames. Don't even get me going on the Macbook uploading a virus to an alien network. What really makes me mad is how I thought it would be good in the first place! Khaaaaaan!
Oh, I got 6 right on the quiz. Damn PG Tips reference threw me off or I would have had 7!
I like the independence and all the taxation with representation but I wish the accent stuck around. Cheers?
Independence Day
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by zabird » Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:38 pm
Mr. Brian wrote:When I saw the title of this thread I was all set to show my contempt for that movie that Will Smith made with the same title. When he punched out that alien after the chase through the desert I thought my head would actually burst into flames. Don't even get me going on the Macbook uploading a virus to an alien network. What really makes me mad is how I thought it would be good in the first place! Khaaaaaan!
Oh, I got 6 right on the quiz. Damn PG Tips reference threw me off or I would have had 7!
I like the independence and all the taxation with representation but I wish the accent stuck around. Cheers?
I got 6 right too. Wonder how tough the American one is?
As to that accent ... lotta eye-spinning linguistic gobbledy-gook in this wiki entry, but it is interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English yes, I am a geek
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by tonywojo » Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:06 am
zabird wrote:I got 6 right too. Wonder how tough the American one is?
As to that accent ... lotta eye-spinning linguistic gobbledy-gook in this wiki entry, but it is interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English yes, I am a geek
It's your job Z.
i sometimes use caps and punctuation for emphasis
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by JackT » Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:15 am
Mr. Brian wrote:I like the independence and all the taxation with representation but I wish the accent stuck around.
It did!
"He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits."
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by blinkilite » Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:38 am
Mr. Brian wrote:I like the independence and all the taxation with representation but I wish the accent stuck around. Cheers?
i wish the accent stuck around too... i got 7 right.
not just another drop in the ocean
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by JackT » Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:07 am
blinkilite wrote:i wish the accent stuck around too... i got 7 right.
I got 5!
"He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits."
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by black francis » Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:32 pm
Mr. Brian wrote:When I saw the title of this thread I was all set to show my contempt for that movie that Will Smith made with the same title. When he punched out that alien after the chase through the desert I thought my head would actually burst into flames. Don't even get me going on the Macbook uploading a virus to an alien network. What really makes me mad is how I thought it would be good in the first place! Khaaaaaan!
Anytime a preview starts with "from the producers of Independence Day and Godzilla..." I think thanks for the warning.
With the Force as his ally he did battle with the Dark Lord. And he showed the measure of a true Jedi at a place called "The Death Star" where hope for the Galaxy was reborn. May all who struggle against tyranny hold his memory in their hearts
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by black francis » Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:59 pm
Mr. Brian wrote:I like the independence and all the taxation with representation but I wish the accent stuck around. Cheers?
We could all type stuff like honour, armour, behaviour, rumour. It'd be a start.
With the Force as his ally he did battle with the Dark Lord. And he showed the measure of a true Jedi at a place called "The Death Star" where hope for the Galaxy was reborn. May all who struggle against tyranny hold his memory in their hearts
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by zabird » Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:19 pm
black francis wrote:We could all type stuff like honour, armour, behaviour, rumour. It'd be a start.
Credit Noah Webster for dropping those "U's" from 'Murican.
From Wikipedia:
Differences in orthography are also trivial. Some of the forms that now serve to distinguish American from British spelling (color for colour, center for centre, traveler for traveller, etc.) were introduced by Noah Webster himself; others are due to spelling tendencies in Britain from the 17th century until the present day (e.g. -ise for -ize, programme for program, skilful for skillful, chequered for checkered, etc.), in some cases favored by the francophile tastes of 19th century Victorian England, which had little effect on AmE.[20]
here's the stuff they ask on the u.s. citizenship test:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/blinstst.htm
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by crystal daze » Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:33 pm
I haven't tried the recent test, but I failed Tebbit's Cricket Test in the 80s.
There's times when I've been deeply indifferent
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