For you pesky Americans

[Tahmaseb]

Now's your chance to get a president who actually does something: I give you Zod!

[Zirandorthel]

All hail benovolent father Zod! Wil Nider to the HyperboreansEoin to the restZirandorthel to the ages

[AngelGuardian93]

I fear I shall never understand you British and Irish people... There are no flowers, no not this time. There will be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find.

[Ryan]

Is that Zod or Ardashir? Useless art is simply tolerated vandalism. I am a vandal.

[Nick Foghorn Leghorn]

From his campaign literature, I can't tell the difference between the two! ________________It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.-Andrew Jackson

[Tahmaseb]

Greg, are you calling me British?

[Zirandorthel]

I'm afraid he is, O Shah of Shahs.. Wil Nider to the HyperboreansEoin to the restZirandorthel to the ages

[Tahmaseb]

He must burn then.

[Ciaron Broeck]

http://www.cthulhu.org/ Emyr Ciaron BroeckKing of Breuddwyd

[osmose1000]

I'd vote for Cthulhu. They call it a signature, but no one ever signs their posts...

[Tahmaseb]

It's just that Cthulhu hasn't yet decided whether to run or not in 2008.

[AngelGuardian93]

British, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; it makes little difference. They each get pissed when you mistake them for a guy who lives on the same island. My bad. There are no flowers, no not this time. There will be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find.

[Stjepan Veliki]

Tahmaseb is Finnish. SF-SN

[Tahmaseb]

Yes. I don't live in a fucking island.Of course it's very flattering that my English fools you thinking I'm a native speaker, but that is clearly not the case. Me can makes lot of mistake. Edited by: Tahmaseb Shah at: 9/11/05 21:38

[Zirandorthel]

Quote:British, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; it makes little difference. They each get pissed when you mistake them for a guy who lives on the same island. My bad. I don't live on the same island as any of them. But don't take it personally. You Canadian-Mexicans always have me fooled.. Wil Nider to the HyperboreansEoin to the restZirandorthel to the ages

[osmose1000]

At least when we speak English we don't sound like we're better than everyone else! So there! Yeah! I said it! WHOOP WHOOP! They call it a signature, but no one ever signs their posts...

[Zirandorthel]

.....no, no you don't. Congratulations... Wil Nider to the HyperboreansEoin to the restZirandorthel to the ages

[Tahmaseb]

Perhaps it's because you aren't any better.

[Zirandorthel]

Moose, you do know that the average English person (and I presume you're referring to the English, as we Irish don't need to have snooty accents to sound any better than anyone else) sounds less like the Royal Family and more like the Royle Family, don't you? Wil Nider to the HyperboreansEoin to the restZirandorthel to the ages

[Bill3000]

Quote: At least when we speak English we don't sound like we're better than everyone else! So there! Yeah! I said it! WHOOP WHOOP!Americans don't need to have an accent that makes them sound better than everyone else, because they freely admit that they think they are better than everyone else. I hate being American. To tell the truth, part of the reason I joined micronations was so that I could have a national allegiance that I could be proud of. Once I'm done with college, I would probably prefer to do my career work outside of America. Bill Dusch - Archon of SoloralismPissing off Micras, one nation at a timeProud to be Apollonianvar txtList = new Array()txtList[txtList.length]="'Whoa! You're in...college now? You got...older! I guess that's what happens when time passes, but still...' - Scott Siskind";txtList[txtList.length]="'The Hindenburg Uncertainty Principle, by contrast states that before you get on a blimp, you can never be certain whether it's going to catch on fire or not' - Scott Siskind";txtList[txtList.length]="Why do I need some cheese?";txtList[txtList.length]="'me to. well almost, we have to worship the living god, Bill3000.' - Hubert";txtList[txtList.length]="'Y'know what? I am never going to get out of micronations. I think I need to be assassinated or something.' - Jason Steffke";txtList[txtList.length]="'Bill, you are STILL young and stupid.' - Jason Steffke, Control of Destiny 1";txtList[txtList.length]="I think we've gotta promote you. You now have slightly more diplomatic skills than a random rock. - Sirithil nos Feanor, to Bill Dusch";txtList[txtList.length]="'Wow. I'm this close to admitting you're no longer young and stupid.' - Scott Siskind, to Bill";txtList[txtList.length]="'ow! I've been thrwappen! Now I have a sudden urge to enter politics...' - Gryphon the Pure, after being hit by a shard of Pure Mischief";txtList[txtList.length]="'I could probably date Hypatia's Mom. Now THAT'S scary.' - Ryan Caruso"; j=parseInt(Math.random()*txtList.length);j=(isNaN(j))?0:j;document.write(txtList[j]);Edited by: Bill3000 at: 9/12/05 6:58

[AngelGuardian93]

You're from Finland? Nope, never would have guessed it. So to you I do apologies.As for you Eoin, yes, its a different island, but its close enough. Sorry! As for Americans not having an accent, yes we do! We just dont realize it... There are no flowers, no not this time. There will be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find.

[Zirandorthel]

I think Bill's point was that actions speak louder than any accent in the case of the American people.. Wil Nider to the HyperboreansEoin to the restZirandorthel to the ages

[osmose1000]

I don't know why you should hate being an American. Any ass who assumes that you're stupid because of your nationality is too ignorant to care about. Certainly, you can be an American and be educated. Am I my president? Fuck no. But I was born in the USA and don't have any overbearing reason to try and say differently. They call it a signature, but no one ever signs their posts...

[Bill3000]

I don't like the way the country is going, in particulary toward scientific progress. Europe may have its technophobes, but at least the majority of the hampering isn't based on faith - it is just based on ignorance. (For the record, what could be considered my political affiliation would be a technocrat) Bill Dusch - Archon of SoloralismPissing off Micras, one nation at a timeProud to be Apollonianvar txtList = new Array()txtList[txtList.length]="'Whoa! You're in...college now? You got...older! I guess that's what happens when time passes, but still...' - Scott Siskind";txtList[txtList.length]="'The Hindenburg Uncertainty Principle, by contrast states that before you get on a blimp, you can never be certain whether it's going to catch on fire or not' - Scott Siskind";txtList[txtList.length]="Why do I need some cheese?";txtList[txtList.length]="'me to. well almost, we have to worship the living god, Bill3000.' - Hubert";txtList[txtList.length]="'Y'know what? I am never going to get out of micronations. I think I need to be assassinated or something.' - Jason Steffke";txtList[txtList.length]="'Bill, you are STILL young and stupid.' - Jason Steffke, Control of Destiny 1";txtList[txtList.length]="I think we've gotta promote you. You now have slightly more diplomatic skills than a random rock. - Sirithil nos Feanor, to Bill Dusch";txtList[txtList.length]="'Wow. I'm this close to admitting you're no longer young and stupid.' - Scott Siskind, to Bill";txtList[txtList.length]="'ow! I've been thrwappen! Now I have a sudden urge to enter politics...' - Gryphon the Pure, after being hit by a shard of Pure Mischief";txtList[txtList.length]="'I could probably date Hypatia's Mom. Now THAT'S scary.' - Ryan Caruso"; j=parseInt(Math.random()*txtList.length);j=(isNaN(j))?0:j;document.write(txtList[j]);

[AngelGuardian93]

You're assuming that being a technophobe is a bad thing, and that the key to some magical utopian future is through science, when it's not. Yes Bill, i'm probably the type of person in america you hate, so unleash your full fury on me, baby. There are no flowers, no not this time. There will be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find.

[Bill3000]

I didn't say magical utopian future. I'm a bit less moral than that - I simply believe in the utter and complete nonobstruction of science. I believe (with no real merit, probably) that ethics has no place in science, for it will eventually just get in the way of what we can learn about the universe. The universe is not human, after all, and we should not be hampered by our own disadvantages. Bill Dusch - Archon of SoloralismPissing off Micras, one nation at a timeProud to be Apollonianvar txtList = new Array()txtList[txtList.length]="'Whoa! You're in...college now? You got...older! I guess that's what happens when time passes, but still...' - Scott Siskind";txtList[txtList.length]="'The Hindenburg Uncertainty Principle, by contrast states that before you get on a blimp, you can never be certain whether it's going to catch on fire or not' - Scott Siskind";txtList[txtList.length]="Why do I need some cheese?";txtList[txtList.length]="'me to. well almost, we have to worship the living god, Bill3000.' - Hubert";txtList[txtList.length]="'Y'know what? I am never going to get out of micronations. I think I need to be assassinated or something.' - Jason Steffke";txtList[txtList.length]="'Bill, you are STILL young and stupid.' - Jason Steffke, Control of Destiny 1";txtList[txtList.length]="I think we've gotta promote you. You now have slightly more diplomatic skills than a random rock. - Sirithil nos Feanor, to Bill Dusch";txtList[txtList.length]="'Wow. I'm this close to admitting you're no longer young and stupid.' - Scott Siskind, to Bill";txtList[txtList.length]="'ow! I've been thrwappen! Now I have a sudden urge to enter politics...' - Gryphon the Pure, after being hit by a shard of Pure Mischief";txtList[txtList.length]="'I could probably date Hypatia's Mom. Now THAT'S scary.' - Ryan Caruso"; j=parseInt(Math.random()*txtList.length);j=(isNaN(j))?0:j;document.write(txtList[j]);

[Stjepan Veliki]

From the linguistic standpoint, Americans have numerous accents, most of them are concentrated in the northeast. I can tell or less which of the major cities someone is from (or lives around) by the way they talk. Philadelphians and South Jerseyans have a particular way of extending their long o's. For example, when they say "home" it sounds almost like "hoom". New Yorkers and North Jerseyans have related accents, although the North Jerseyan is less severe than the New Yorker. Both will leave out the last "g" in "-ing" words making it "-in" and still pronounce words like "caught" and "cot" differently (and rhyme words like "talk" and "stalk" with "caught")North Jerseyans still say "th" rather than d though and don't drop final r's like New Yorkers do (the "th" to "d" thing is getting rarer even in New York accents though). Some North Jerseyan accents will also turn the short a into two separate sounds, a schwa quickly followed by an a, but not as strongly as New Yorkers can tend to.Most importantly, North Jerseyans do not have the "Brooklynese" tendency of turning an r into "oi" (the classic example of this uber-stigmatized feature is people from Brooklyn who say "goilz" instead of "girls" - Type O Negative even made a song joking about it). This is also where the stereotyped pronounciation of "Joizey" comes from. The feature is actually describing New Yorkers saying "New Jersey" and has never been a feature of any New Jersey accent.Weird thing is that I hear people from New Orleans speak with an accent very similar to North Jersey/New York. Possibly due to the influence of similar groups of immigrants. Boston and surrounding areas also have their own distinct accent/s, which are pretty well known to all, by this point.The rest of the accents, and there are a bunch aside from Southern and Midwestern, like Midlands, Inland (which covers much of New York state and the Great Lakes states), and Californian, but these tend to cover much larger areas (Midwestern is, afterall, the standard for General American English, and California has a lot of influence because of its exposure in the media...though someone should really teach those people how to say "caught" ). Their are a number of accents which are fairly unique to certainp places (like Pittsburghese), they still basically belong to other accent groups, while the big three northeastern regional accents are quite distinctive of each other. Did I do a good enough job of rehijacking this thread? SF-SNEdited by: Stjepan Veliki at: 9/12/05 22:07

[Tahmaseb]

Just tell us what kind of accent Zod has and we're back.

[osmose1000]

I've been in Florida for so long that I lost my Bostonian accent. They call it a signature, but no one ever signs their posts...

[Stjepan Veliki]

well, that's easy. Zod has a Krypton accent. SF-SN