Comments by "BigMrFirebird" (@BigMrFirebird) on "People Don't Trust Foreign Accents - Study" video.

@BioCapsule The language in question is American English. There's enough differences in spelling and terminology to warrant the difference. This is just another American attempt to hijack a term that already exists elsewhere. Case in hand: Football. Football is first mentioned being played in England 700 years ago. But the Americans later hijacked the name for their own ends and gave real football the term soccer, as some kind of consolation.
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@wockyky My point is that it's not English - it's American English. The two languages use so many differing spellings on many words and completely differing words for many objects that it warrants being different. I'm not saying either language is superior, as they can both drive me crazy at times. I'm just stating the difference for the record.
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@danjorgen Then your experience of dealing with the English must be severely limited. Your response below of "you look down to them , usually" is not only wrong for being generalised, but makes you look as discriminatory as you claim the English are.
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@BioCapsule My point is that it's not English. If Americans took an English spelling test they'd fail on many words. As would the English taking an American English test. Then there's the differing terminology for many common objects. A case in hand is the term Native/First language: to the English, this would mean the original language used in that area (i.e indian), whereas to Americans it means the majority/dominant language used now. Thus the differing languages.
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@danjorgen "They all have that attitude " - How the hell would you know? You interviewed them all? Really? What is "norm", exactly? Don't bother saying something like a normal British accent 'cos like your abiliity to comprehend, it doesn't exist. British accent could broadly mean someone who speaks with an English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh accent. Because guess what, dumbass? They can all be British.
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@boutdempapers True.
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@realcoolboy17 Folks, I prefer the American or Canadian accents I've heard to some of the English ones I encounter on a daily basis. As much as I like Ozzy Osbourne, thanks to the drugs, he now speaks with a fraction of the speed of an average native of his area of England. Scary.
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Native English? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING??? a) American natives didn't speak English. Can you imagine the Mayflower grinding to a halt, to be met by the natives shouting, "Ahoy there, chaps. Jolly big canoe you have there..." b) Native English is spoken by those who have been born in England. Are the Americans suffering an ID crisis? Newsflash - Americans speak American English.
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@NiteAngel Real Americans, being the indians, right? If not, what constitutes "real"?
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