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[Spyder Rocket]

Just yesterday, I was decked out in my Chuck Taylors at the lounge, and picked up what I thought was a fair haired astronaut's wife, but I later discovered she was an aviation blonde.

Bonus points to any Brit, Aussie, or Kiwi who can explain that without going to Google.

[Surin Nix]

While this video might not resonate with you, it should give you some hope for the younger generation.
This group of young people collaborated to produce this video that lampoons atrocious grammar in YouTube comments. Damn funny, if you ask me.

Just to clarify:

"Labia bombing"....

Been there. Done that.

[Surin Nix]

Just yesterday, I was decked out in my Chuck Taylors at the lounge.

I was scopin' you out. You looked so fly in them Chuck T's!

[Spyder Rocket]

I was scopin' you out. You looked so fly in them Chuck T's!

When I was younger, I used to wear a white one, and a black one to match the black and white Kangol on my dome.

[Macman]

While watching Ryder Cup news (I couldn't get a telecast of the matches here ), I was again struck by the different usage of plurals between British English and American English.  I'm sure the Yank use of collective nouns and their verb forms (singular) grates on the British ear as much as their non-use of collective nouns grates on mine, but I don't think I'll ever get used to it.  To an American, to hear "Europe win" or "America lose" is startling.  It was that usage that prompted my question about whether the Brits say, "The Earth revolve around the Sun" or "revolves".  I'm still confused. From the newscasts, I know that "Europe" is considered to be plural when it's a team (such as the Ryder Cup team), but I wonder if it's the same when talking about the continent.  In other words, do the English say, "Europe join the United States in ..." or do they say, "Europe joins ..."?  We Yanks would use the singular in both instances, team and continent.  After one of you answer that, please try to explain why you use that classy-sounding "a" pronunciation in words like "task" (like "tahsk") and "plant" ("plahnt"), but then use that nails-on-a-blackboard "a" in "pasta."

[Hard News]

I`m such a simple Kiwi.....Eh ! you buggers are just taking the piss because our lingo is slightly snarky !!

[Spyder Rocket]

I`m such a simple Kiwi.....Eh ! you buggers are just taking the piss because our lingo is slightly snarky !!

I've always thought you guys sound a bit like pirates, or at least how Hollywood portrays pirates.

Arrrgh Matie! 😉

[Hard News]

I've always thought you guys sound a bit like pirates, or at least how Hollywood portrays pirates.

Arrrgh Matie!

 

The accent in NZ is pretty uniform.....apart from the bottom of the South Island where they definitely roll their R`s  

Similar to Cornwall in England !!!

So hence I can understand the pirate connection

[dixon cox]

I know some of us here enjoy The Lonely Island, so here's their take on the semicolon.

 

Not strictly on-topic, but who cares? .. Poor use of English grammar is everywhere    

 

[Spyder Rocket]

I know some of us here enjoy The Lonely Island, so here's their take on the semicolon.
 
Not strictly on-topic, but who cares? .. Poor use of English grammar is everywhere    
 

The whole time I was watching that, I was thinking something is wrong; I'm glad the teacher schooled them.

Also, that was some great white boy rap!