Bayer is pronounced like buyer

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JAMedia said:
True in the US but it was explained to me that the UK has a 240V 13Amp system so electric kettles in the UK are far faster than the 115v (lower amps?) US kettles which are (were?) far slower. Therefore the UK has grown up using a(n electric) kettle for boiling water for tea/coffee especially if for more than one person. For a single cup the microwave might be faster than a single cup of water in the kettle but habit would use the kettle.

As for accents this is much loved by Brits, French, Germans and Italians

in particular "Good Moaning" is now part of UK culture IT is of course a Micky take on how the British fare on French pronunciation.

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Yes. And in some of the posts, I have actually seen them mention the electric kettle. For the record, when I make tea, I boil the water in a kettle and put a tea bag in. But I’m also making a gallon of tea for “iced tea”, not a single cup of “hot tea”. Remove the differences of hot vs. cold and I probably drink as much or more tea than the average person in the UK. I probably average making 2-3 gallons a week, just for myself.
 
Accents are a funny thing. Even just our own individual perception of them. A few years ago we were on the campus of a well known and prominent university located down here in NC, and interviewing a few students around campus about the upcoming basketball game. One of the guys accents was so thick that I could barely understand a word he said. After he walked off, I said something to my audio guy about how strange it was that his Australian accent was that hard to understand and he stops and looks at me and said, “The kid was from New Jersey”(this university has a HUGE student population from the North). I just laughed.
 
My first time in Miami. December, 1998. Mom and I go to the famed Jewish deli Wolfie Cohen's Rascal House in Sunny Isles. It was the week the Jets were playing the Dolphins and the inside of the restaurant was like the casting call for the Sopranos.

Of course, then there's Jewish English.

 
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The difference is the English speak English. Americans don't.[/QUOTE

A male kid in the U.S. speaking “proper” English / with a British accent would be bullied for it and maybe even receive a beating for it.
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JAMedia said:
That is a bit of an indictment of the US.
That that sort of thing normally doesn't happen in developed nations.
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Actually it is indictment of the Brits and British monarchy. The revulsion to monarchy was so strong that it included aversion to the formality of “the king’s English”. American culture embraced casualness in rejection of formality, “proper-ness”, and stuffiness. It embraced ruggedness, self-sufficiency, toughness, and plain-speak of the Everyman rugged individualist. Simple-folk.

Part of it was rejection of the class-system of Britain / Europe.

Indict America all you like. But America is a product of Britain. So you are just indicting what resulted from England. From England’s monarchal mistreatment of the populace and the class system of the time in Britain that inhibited upward mobility and relegated individuals to permanent peasant status.

( I’m not taking this to heart. But why the shots at the U.S. on a U.S.-based forum where you know the majority of users are American? Insecurity? Trolling? Just salty today or what? )
 
This is an international site with members all across the globe - and none of those countries should be 'indicting' any others (at least not on here).

This conversation is starting to cross the line in several different ways - and it doesn't remotely relate to filmmaking.

I am hoping no one will feel any great loss if we close this one down at this point.
If you want to discuss it further, feel free to send me a message directly.

Thanks.
 
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