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I'm watching an American presentation of English footage, and they're subtitling the English voices! Can you believe that? The Discovery Channel doesn't think that their American audience can comprehend the Northern English dialect.

I'm in hysterics right now!

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[patchworkhero]

That's one i haven't seen... except in cases where a person is speaking really bad broken english I guess, but what's so perplexing about an english accent? Blimey.

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[benicek]

My parents have to use the English DVD subtitles to understand the accents in American films. LOL.

langwich

[benicek]

Actually I had a really hard time when I visited California because nobody understood my southern British long vowels. A young assistant in a clothing store got really flustered when I asked if they stocked jeans in khaki. I think he thought I was asking for a 'car key'.

Re: langwich

[destructedstar]

Hah! Sounds like when my friend from Yorkshire asked for a "Coke" and the barman thought she was asking for a "cork".

I miss the vast rainbow of the English dialect. California English just isn't as varied.

Re: langwich

[benicek]

I studied in York for a while and one of my (southern English) friends fell into exactly the same trap when he was working in an all-night petrol station and a local customer asked for a can of coke.

"I can't just sell you a cork" he replied. "You have to buy a whole bottle of wine."

and then later another customer came to his booth asking:

"do you have any chuddy, or owt like that?"

My friend expressed incomprehension, so the man repeated:

"Do you have and CHUDDY, or owt like that?"

still, my friend had no idea. The man then realised he was talking to a 'foreigner' and translated his question into standard English:

"Do you have any CHEWING GUM, or anything like that?"