What British People Mean
The British are said to be polite and well-mannered people,kind and courteous.
The greatest tea-drinkers in the world, countrymen at heart, having great sense of humour, loving to talk about the weather.
Using long-structured phrases of politeness "Do you mind if?...", " Would it be a problem if...?", "I was wondering if I could.." "I am not sure I can agree..." etc.
Sometimes when British people speak, you don't understand whether they make a compliment or not. Of course, it's Oscar Wilde, a recognised master of paradox, but still...
They can get drowned before they say their long polite phrase:
They speak in a veiled language:
I surely had known things had been in a difficult way till I saw this chart .
Now I know things are in a bad way.
I want to politely ask if any of my British WA friends could kindly tell me and everybody else, as long as it's no trouble for them of course, if everything here is true or not, because now I don't know how to understand British.
Tell me please that this is true about you, living in Britain. It will give hope...
Anyway, whatever your answer should be, we are all people united and separated by the same language, unique, wonderful, paradoxical English.
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I enjoy the subtlety of the British people. The internet probably makes us all more alike. Likewise TV, music, etc. :)
Naaah. That all started to go when the Beatles and the Rolling Stones turned up. Now we just like US people. Not quite so rude but we trying. And most Brit kids never heard of Oscar Wilde
Thanks, Chris. I guess you are right.In this era of globalisation it's sometimes difficult to say what is stricktly British. and what American in the language...Too sad about Oscar Wilde... Love him a lot.:)
oh, yeah... English can be so polite ..."I was wondering if you possibly could"....etc..:)
This is so true, there are so many underlying meanings in what we say and the way we say things! A lot of insinuations would be lost to foreigners! I'm Irish so I have to point out that I would consider Oscar Wilde Irish (or Irish and British if you need to be pedantic)....but who wants to be pedantic....lovely article!
Thank you, Jeannie... You prove what I thought- some hidden meanings might well slip away from the foreigners...
Love Oscar Wilde. I guess such people belong to the world, not just to Irish, or British.:)
Are we talking British as in the isle of great Britain? Are we talking UK which includes that island plus northern Ireland? Or are we talking good old England which comprises the majority of the isle of great Britain?
Most people equate the term with the latter!
Definitely seems to be the latter. As a Scot "British"seems to be the complete opposite of Scottish.
It's a very limited view on the English too, spend a night anywhere other than Chelsea for example and this bubble will be burst
Thanks, Dylan. Sure you are right. This post is just an attempt to show how people using the same language and even the same words can mean different things.
And English is sure so diverse that you might write hundreds of posts, and more than that - read hundreds of manuscripts and never get the picture...:)
Yeah, understandable. A funny one I've came across when speaking to foreign friends.
A lot of us tend to add Like at the end of sentences unnecessarily. I asked my Finnish friend "What you doing like?" and he was insanely confused. He'd never heard like at the end of a sentence in his life.
It's very common in Scotland and places such as Yorkshire too.
There's so many places a foreigner would struggle with language in the UK despite us using a universal language.
It's an exaggeration of course. We still do speak, but you are right, at many instances it's broken English with its poor users.
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Love it lol!
My pleasure! Thank you, Richard!:)