American Stereotype

[The Goliad]

- Cannot correctly pronounce Aluminium.

If there was one spelling of the element that would be correct.  Unfortunately for you, there are two.

Ah, yes. That's the British way to say it, but this is America, and in America, we say "aluminum"! 

[UnknownSniper]

- Cannot correctly pronounce Aluminium.

If there was one spelling of the element that would be correct.  Unfortunately for you, there are two.

Ah, yes. That's the British way to say it, but this is America, and in America, we say "aluminum"! 

^ Smartass American stereotype.

[The Geologist]

Aluminum was one of the original spellings.  Not necessarily correct, but accepted in various countries/institutions none the less.

[Mangled*]

Why does mangled have to come into a thread, read the title, and comment.

I was mostly asking about Americans in non-American TV. I mean many shows on US TV have the designated foreigner of some type, and I was just wondering what that person usually acts like.

My stereotypical American watches a lot of TV.

- Cannot correctly pronounce Aluminium.

Define "irony".

The irony is that English was established before America. It's our language and you should have the fecking decency to speak it properly. I hate your idiot-friendly phonetic spelling. American English is incorrect English.

If there was one spelling of the element that would be correct.  Unfortunately for you, there are two.

French: Aluminium
German: Aluminium
Italian: Alluminio
Portuguese: Alumínio
Spanish: Aluminio

Can you see a pattern? Yes, they all conform to the original word but apparently America can't handle 5 syllables in a word so they cut the 'I' and yet they so tout their simplified language in Spelling Bees and such.

Ah, yes. That's the British way to say it, but this is America, and in America, we say "aluminum"! 

The American way to say it is the wrong way to say it. See above.

Aluminum was one of the original spellings.  Not necessarily correct, but accepted in various countries/institutions none the less.

No, I'm fairly sure 'ium' was the original spelling. Why? Latin. That's why.

[The Geologist]

Aluminum was one of the first spellings, 1808.  Find an earlier date and I'll begin to believe you.

Drop the elitist crap about "simplified language" and such.  We spell a word differently, so the fuck what?  I'm well aware of how many other elements are named and spelled.  Yet you did a perfectly good job of paying no attention to the fact that both spellings are acknowledged on an international level.  And F.Y.I., it's not just an American way of spelling it.

All this BS about "American English is incorrect".  There's a reason America became a nation independent from England - your country was on the rag to the point where people decided to leave and fight to the death to be separate from it.  Apparently it still is.

[Chariot]

thread derailed, courtesy of Mangled*

[a-4-year-old]

Mangled English is just the bastard child of German so get off your elitist high horse about the "proper" way to speak it.

You can resurrect the second person singular pronoun if you want to speak "real" English

[SadistAtHeart]

Can you see a pattern? Yes, they all conform to the original word but apparently America can't handle 5 syllables in a word so they cut the 'I' and yet they so tout their simplified language in Spelling Bees and such.

Alas, my wanton language warrior blind
The pithy battle you fight up steep incline
For the words we speaketh abound with folly
Continually incorrect, as imminent as is change


The moral of the story? All modern English is incorrect; don't be so pedantic about it.

[n00bface]

British English is gay too.  the retard saxons had to borrow words from latin because they weren't creative enough to come up with their own, dUMBASSES.  can't handle Eð because they've got lazy faggot british linguistic capability and can't keep their language rooted in germanic vocabulary and structure, L O S E R S.  at least american english has the nerve to break away.

[The Goliad]

Mangled* seems to enjoy creating arguments. He has nothing else to do I'm guessing.

[SDFilm]

http://starrgazr.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/john-cleeses-letter-to-america/

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- Cannot correctly pronounce Aluminium.

If there was one spelling of the element that would be correct.  Unfortunately for you, there are two.

Ah, yes. That's the British way to say it, but this is America, and in America, we say "aluminum"! 

As of Oct 6th, this is now Poland. (unless those 'servers in Chicargo' still have a stake in this place). So we all have to speak Polish now.

[Mangled*]

Aluminum was one of the first spellings, 1808.  Find an earlier date and I'll begin to believe you.

Error. Alumium was named in 1808, not Aluminum or Aluminium but in 1812 Aluminium was discovered by Sir Humbhry Davy, a British chemist who named it after Alumium. Still following?

Mangled English is just the bratwurst child of German so get off your elitist high horse about the "proper" way to speak it.

And American English is the festering orphan corpse of English which we banished to the other side of the Atlantic.

thread derailed, courtesy of Mangled*

You're damn skippy.

British English is gay too.  the retard saxons had to borrow words from latin because they weren't creative enough to come up with their own, dUMBASSES.  can't handle Eð because they've got lazy lovergot british linguistic capability and can't keep their language rooted in germanic vocabulary and structure, L O S E R S.  at least american english has the nerve to break away.

Oh look, a self-hating British decendant. I think you're just bitter about living on the wrong side of the Atlantic.

Mangled* seems to enjoy creating arguments. He has nothing else to do I'm guessing.

This isn't an argument. This is me telling you what is right and you either have the choice of being an ignorant hypocrite and reinventing history to say that I'm wrong or you can just accept that I am always correct.

[tehsnipah]

Geez, calm down Mangled, you might mangle yourself soon.

Just watched about 20 clips of youtube, and more than 60%, there was some serious stereotypical jokes.....

And they all were laughing instead of being serious..... I don't know, but do you guys sometimes laugh even if it's a seriously racist/stereotypical jokes?

I do...

You mean 100% of them?

[SadistAtHeart]

Well Mangled*, you're right. I'm sorry to have been raised to speak differently than you and I hope this apology helps to heal the anguish caused by our centuries of butchering your language. After all, we, as Americans, are incapable of pronouncing words with 5 or more syllables.

Now, can we kindly continue talking about British sitcoms/films?

[chrisgbk]

Aluminum was one of the first spellings, 1808. Find an earlier date and I'll begin to believe you.

Error. Alumium was named in 1808, not Aluminum or Aluminium but in 1812 Aluminium was discovered by Sir Humbhry Davy, a British chemist who named it after Alumium. Still following?

Wrong; Davy named it Aluminum in 1812, in the journal Chemical Philosophy(he also is the one who originally named it Alumium, as Alumium refers to the same element, in 1808, from his journal Philosophical Transactions, before settling on Aluminum); however an anonymous author writing to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, objected to it, and proposed aluminium in it's place, because it has a more classical sound to it(potassium, strontium... etc).

[n00bface]

Oh look, a self-hating British decendant. I think you're just bitter about living on the wrong side of the Atlantic.

I'm not British, and have absolutely no British ancestry.  And I'm living in Iceland, so I'm right in the center of the Atlantic???

[SDFilm]

British English is gay too.  the retard saxons had to borrow words from latin because they weren't creative enough to come up with their own, dUMBASSES.  can't handle Eð because they've got lazy lovergot british linguistic capability and can't keep their language rooted in germanic vocabulary and structure, L O S E R S.  at least american english has the nerve to break away.

Oh look, a self-hating British decendant. I think you're just bitter about living on the wrong side of the Atlantic.

You don't have to be so serious and even report to moderators about it. n00bface was obviously being ironic having a laugh. Just as one wouldn't take that John Cleeses letter to America I posted seriously.

[Chariot]

since when has proving Mangled* wrong ever shut him up?