| ▲ | ChrisRR 4 hours ago |
| Americans often don't twig how many random american terms we brits have to learn the double meaning of and don't pipe up about. I'm not talking the well-known ones like cookies, but even things like "the ER" meaning "A&E" Sometimes it's their turn to repay the favour |
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| ▲ | unfamiliar 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| If you want to read some hilarious reactions of Americans panicking when they are suddenly exposed to non-American English/British accents, check out these threads: https://www.reddit.com/r/PawPatrol/comments/1q68v16/british_... https://www.reddit.com/r/PawPatrol/comments/17wcsdm/my_digit... |
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| ▲ | nozzlegear 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm not sure "panicking" is the best word to describe a couple of parents wondering why the characters suddenly have different accents. But maybe I'm too American and "panicking" means something else for Brits. | | |
| ▲ | Vinnl 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not even the accents - different voices are annoying enough. When I was young I watched some cartoons in English, and hearing them in Dutch later, despite being my native language, was still uncomfortable. |
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| ▲ | irishcoffee 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | If those posts are examples of 'panicking' we have yet another idiom I've just learned about. |
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| ▲ | onionisafruit 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Sometimes Americans wonder why English characters start talking about a basic cable channel when they really should be seeking medical help. |
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| ▲ | mattlondon 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Cable channel? Are you talking about fibre-optic frequency channels? What kind of cable are we talking? Perhaps you can be more inclusive in your language on the future. | |
| ▲ | dkdbejwi383 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | As a non-American I don't know what "basic cable" is (or what the other tiers are), just that you don't have free-to-air TV | | |
| ▲ | ChrisRR 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | As far as I'm aware the US does have free OTA TV. A quick google tells me that basic cable means the cheapest tier of cable. So maybe equivalent to a sky/cable entertainment package? | | |
| ▲ | dhosek 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yep, we do have free OTA television. Basic Cable generally comprises the local free OTA channels plus a number of mostly ad-supported channels. The basic cable A&E began its life as “Arts & Entertainment” and was originally a mix of British import shows and high culture presentations (e.g., televised orchestra concerts). But much like carcinisation in aquatic invertebrates, for basic cable, apparently channels tend to evolve towards mostly showing Law & Order reruns. |
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| ▲ | 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | [deleted] | |
| ▲ | irishcoffee 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I've watched the World Cup over free-to-air TV, US has a really fun match last night. I don't know where you got this idea from. I haven't paid for television service in decades. |
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| ▲ | mech4bg 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I wish US english had a term as good as ‘twig’ for when someone doesn’t get something. |
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| ▲ | kurtis_reed an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You could just use the US terms, then you wouldn't have to learn both. |
