What are some strange American customs?

[Greater Nevadian Empire]

It's the dialectical nuance; what Americans speak is not standard English.

It's not standard but it sure as hell is English.

I agree. British English can be considered "standard" English because the UK is where the language first developed. As settlers moved to the Americas, Africa, and Australia, the local pronunciations and accents change.

[Sosi]

This is a lovely way to see what all ya'll foreigners think of the USA. And I can verify most of the things you're talking about, minus the cheese. We put bacon on everything, especially bacon cheeseburgers.

That sounds quite literally death-defying to engorge.

[Estva]

Everything from Minnesota.

Minnesota is just American Canada, really.

[New Apperon]

The Pledge.

Don't listen to the extreme left wingers around here...the pledge is awesome.

If by awesome, you mean conditionalized brainwashing.....

[Arlenton]

It's not standard but it sure as hell is English.

I suppose. Did the American founders speak the English of King George?

From what I have read the "American" English was what England spoke along with the American colonists. The "British" accents apparently developed around the early 1800s or something like that.

[Pan Asian Amercian Coalition]

This is a lovely way to see what all ya'll foreigners think of the USA. And I can verify most of the things you're talking about, minus the cheese. We put bacon on everything, especially bacon cheeseburgers.

That sounds quite literally death-defying to engorge.

Ha! You ain't seen nothing yet! Allow me to regale you with the tale of the KFC Double Down: it was a bacon cheeseburger, but instead of hamburger buns, it had fried chicken breasts and gravy instead of mustard. And then there's the Heart Attack Grille..... Good lord the Heart Attack Grille. People have died there.

[Greater Nevadian Empire]

http://dialectblog.com/2011/06/13/ameri ... ng-britis/

[New Apperon]

I suppose. Did the American founders speak the English of King George?

From what I have read the "American" English was what England spoke along with the American colonists. The "British" accents apparently developed around the early 1800s or something like that.

From what I learned in A.P U.S History, the British changed their accents after the American Revolutionary War.

[Eastern Equestria]

I suppose. Did the American founders speak the English of King George?

From what I have read the "American" English was what England spoke along with the American colonists. The "British" accents apparently developed around the early 1800s or something like that.

Not that I don't believe you, but could you provide some source to corroborate this?

[Madiganistan]

Don't listen to the extreme left wingers around here...the pledge is awesome.

If by awesome, you mean conditionalized brainwashing.....

What are the conditions under which it would or would not be brainwashing?
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At least know the words you're gonna use if you're gonna use 'em.

[Napkiraly]

Everything from Minnesota.

Minnesota is just American Canada, really.

As a Canadian, I'm insulted.

[Estva]

Don't listen to the extreme left wingers around here...the pledge is awesome.

If by awesome, you mean conditionalized brainwashing.....

While it is fairly propagandist it has been proven that by federal law you can refuse to say it.

[Estva]

Minnesota is just American Canada, really.

As a Canadian, I'm insulted.

Shouldn't be, Minnesota is quite nice, barring the cold

[Arlenton]

Would catching and boiling crayfish in a creek near my house be a strange American custom?

[Arlenton]

From what I have read the "American" English was what England spoke along with the American colonists. The "British" accents apparently developed around the early 1800s or something like that.

Not that I don't believe you, but could you provide some source to corroborate this?

Sure.

http://www.livescience.com/33652-americ ... cents.html

[New Apperon]

If by awesome, you mean conditionalized brainwashing.....

What are the conditions under which it would or would not be brainwashing?
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At least know the words you're gonna use if you're gonna use 'em.

One example is at my school. Once the bell rings, the speaker turns on to say the pledge. The students will almost simultaneously stand up and say the pledge. So, they are conditionalized by the bell. Similar to Pavlov's dog experiments.

[Estva]

What are the conditions under which it would or would not be brainwashing?
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At least know the words you're gonna use if you're gonna use 'em.

One example is at my school. Once the bell rings, the speaker turns on to say the pledge. The students will almost simultaneously stand up and say the pledge. So, they are conditionalized by the bell. Similar to Pavlov's dog experiments.

lol

For that to work there has to be reinforcement. They are not forbidden from leaving if they don't say the Pledge, and don't experience anything negative regarding it, so Pavlov doesn't come into play.

[Madiganistan]

From what I have read the "American" English was what England spoke along with the American colonists. The "British" accents apparently developed around the early 1800s or something like that.

Not that I don't believe you, but could you provide some source to corroborate this?

Skip to like minute 12-13. There was a time in England when it Americans actually held the posh and proper linguistic stereotype, people whom "spoke English better than the English themselves."

Bear in mind though, that in the 19th century the dialects on either side of the channel were still markedly distinct from the stereotypical dialects of today.

[Sosi]

That sounds quite literally death-defying to engorge.

Ha! You ain't seen nothing yet! Allow me to regale you with the tale of the KFC Double Down: it was a bacon cheeseburger, but instead of hamburger buns, it had fried chicken breasts and gravy instead of mustard. And then there's the Heart Attack Grille..... Good lord the Heart Attack Grille. People have died there.

I'm ill.

[ImperialistSalvia]

I've heard foreigners be baffled by people wearing shoes indoors.

[Madiganistan]

What are the conditions under which it would or would not be brainwashing?
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At least know the words you're gonna use if you're gonna use 'em.

One example is at my school. Once the bell rings, the speaker turns on to say the pledge. The students will almost simultaneously stand up and say the pledge. So, they are conditionalized by the bell. Similar to Pavlov's dog experiments.

I was making fun of your failure to understand the difference between the words "conditionalized" and "conditioned," which you will soon learn actually mean two pretty different things, after you frustratedly pull up google in an effort to prove me wrong.

[Ararat Mountain]

A weird american custom: Thinking we are patriotic for the USA, but deep inside I think we wish we were European or a great empire in Asia.

Excess patriotism

and

Lack of Patriotism Are both found here in 'merica land of the free.

[Eastern Equestria]

Not that I don't believe you, but could you provide some source to corroborate this?

Sure.

http://www.livescience.com/33652-americ ... cents.html

Not that I don't believe you, but could you provide some source to corroborate this?

Skip to like minute 12-13. There was a time in England when it Americans actually held the posh and proper linguistic stereotype, whom "spoke English better than the English themselves."

Bear in mind though, that in the 19th century the dialects on either side of the channel were still markedly distinct from the stereotypical dialects of today.

Fascinating. I can't say that I was even remotely aware of any of this until right now.

[United Marxist Nations]

Our bigotry against short OP's.

[Pan Asian Amercian Coalition]

Ha! You ain't seen nothing yet! Allow me to regale you with the tale of the KFC Double Down: it was a bacon cheeseburger, but instead of hamburger buns, it had fried chicken breasts and gravy instead of mustard. And then there's the Heart Attack Grille..... Good lord the Heart Attack Grille. People have died there.

I'm ill.

Can your feel the veins clogging? Your heart slowing? Breathing weakening, as the cholesterol overtakes you?