American trolls

[Boris Godunov]

We removed so many extraneous letters. Who needs the extra u's in color, harbor, etc.?

And it's pronounced "civiliZed," so why spell it "civilised?"

We made the language more sensible, you tea-swilling warthogs.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
That was . . .

Cultural humour I think..

[Boris Godunov]

Humor, you mean.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
We removed so many extraneous letters. Who needs the extra u's in color, harbor, etc.?

And it's pronounced "civiliZed," so why spell it "civilised?"

To make spelling bees more malevolent.

[finkian]

humour? tsk, tsk, point in case. Humor is just so time-efficient.

[finkian]

(blush) or case in point. Dyslexia's a b__ch

[Immortal Wombat]

We made the language more sensible, you tea-swilling warthogs.

We were keeping it so only the educated people who could remember weird vowel usage, and superfluous "u"s could spell properly, and then we can poke fun at those who can't.

So we resort to poking fun at americans.

[Boris Godunov]

So you mock us for our spelling more sensibly, and we get to mock you for your bandy-legged, funky-teethed, foul-cuisined, inbred-monarch-worshipping ways?

Seems fair.

[Verto]

Americans don't need expertise in the art of trolling. We have guns.

[finkian]

elitest arses. It would take the British to come up with a language designed to provide the opportunity to poke fun at those whose country is better in every other way besides.

[Immortal Wombat]

hooray!! you spelt "arses" correctly

[Boris Godunov]

Don't cheer so soon, he was only getting around the auto censor.

Or should it be "censour?"

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
So you mock us for our spelling more sensibly, and we get to mock you for your bandy-legged, funky-teethed, foul-cuisined, inbred-monarch-worshipping ways?

Seems fair.

I forgot to add as one of my original points.

The English have a great tradition of degrading themsleves and their acheivements. They are thus immune to the troll who attempts to bait an English by insulting his heritage. In order to troll an Englishman you must focus on their positive attributes.

If for example you suggest that the English have the worst cricket team in the world, you will get no contrary statement - a consensus of Englishmen will probably chime in about how crap England are. A better strategy is to say England will win the World Cup of Cricket, and then you will be flamed and reviled for talking absolute tosh.

[FrustratedPoet]

well ... that's what happens if your're invaded by Romans, Angles, Saxons, Vikings and Normans (who were sort-of Vikings, but not really). You get a language full of words borrowed from all over the place that follow bits and pieces of the grammatical rules of about 5 other languages.
It makes no sense, but we like it.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
If for example you suggest that the English have the worst cricket team in the world you will get no contrary statement, and a consensus of Englishmen will chime in about how crap England are. A better strategy is to say England will win the World Cup of Cricket, and then you will be flamed and reviled for talking absolute tosh.

erm .... Bangladesh and Kenya are both worse than us, and they count since they've now both got test-playing status.



but yeah ... we SUCK at cricket.