How Not To Be American

[seldear]

This person is a Speshul American Snowflake!

Only Americans Speak English! TRUFAX!

When confronted by their misconception, however...they bravely press on, missing the point, insisting that only Americans speak English properly, and trying to tell everyone that, oh, it was just a rant and shouldn't have been taken seriously, and you're being MEEEEEEEEAN to me!

Uh, yeah. Sure. Uhuh. Right.

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Dear Person From America,

When you sound and behave like an idiot, people will treat you like you're an idiot.

When you sound and behave like an ignorant and close-minded American, people are going to treat you with contempt - both people from outside America (yes, Virginia, there is a world 'outside America'), and Americans who don't enjoy being advertised as arrogant twits by one of their own.

Do you need me to translate that into 'proper English' for you?

Comments

[sleekuk.livejournal.com]

That is very funny :)
I can't be bothered to open all the threads so I've just been scrolling through the initial comments.

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

It's like watching a trainwreck: s/he just digs hirself in deeper with every attempt to avoid saying, "Okay, so I didn't realise that people in other countries speak different variants of my language and that the same words may have different meanings. Oops. My bad."