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Topic: American's English
uche9aa Joined Mon 08/15/11 Posts: 1986	Thu 10/03/13 01:46 AM
No doubt,most Americans'spoken english is an assult on queen's english language.My guess is that they are either high on drugs or something similar

SparklingCrystal 💖💎 Joined Mon 05/20/13 Posts: 33339	Thu 10/03/13 01:58 AM Edited by SparklingCrystal 💖💎 on Thu 10/03/13 02:00 AM
Lol so you don't know your own ancestry? The Ulster Scots (Irish: Ultais) are an Irish ethnic group from Ireland, mostly the Ulster region, and are predominantly citizens of what is now Northern Ireland. Ulster Scots or Ulster-Scots (Ulst�r-Scotch) generally refers to the dialects of Scots spoken in parts of Ulster in Ireland I'm from an island .Jamaica to be exact ,god knows our ENGLISH is far from perfect, but don't feel its safe to say 'since a person have bad English that automatically put them into the scamming bucket . Yeah, it is a bit tricky to make bad English a rule for scammers. But this guy sounded more like a non-native speaker trying to be eloquent and being rather good at it too. Thing is, whilst reading the brain tends to overlook mistakes. If you were to remove the vowels, you'd still be able to read it without a problem. So I had to read it a couple of times with my "teacher eye", to notice something was off. That's what got me thinking, maybe he's dyslectic? Or a German in the US or something, haha Oh well, I didn't reply and he didn't send another message. Had he truly been interested he probably would have.

uche9aa Joined Mon 08/15/11 Posts: 1986	Thu 10/03/13 02:17 AM Edited by uche9aa on Thu 10/03/13 02:21 AM
Ladies pretend a lot!

uche9aa Joined Mon 08/15/11 Posts: 1986	Thu 10/03/13 02:18 AM
"Had he truly been interested,he probably would have" No! your non reply was taken as rebuff.You are the one thats not interested.Thats one mistake ladies make

SparklingCrystal 💖💎 Joined Mon 05/20/13 Posts: 33339	Thu 10/03/13 03:04 AM
Hmmm,,,, would've thought men to be somewhat more tenacious if they were truly interested ...

massiel Joined Wed 05/15/13 Posts: 480	Thu 10/03/13 03:27 AM
I agree with you Crystal, I kept blowing this one guy off for months. He kept trying and I liked that about him. Persistent yet respectful. Point is if men are truly interested, they'll take that extra mile. Hola Crystal Morning All

BrianLovesGuitar Joined Sat 08/17/13 Posts: 344	Thu 10/03/13 03:58 AM
It happened a couple times that I got a message from someone that had a really nice profile text, the kind that appeals to me. But then you get messages in English that is (slightly) off. Now I assume that the average American would come up with what could be considered normal English, but maybe I'm wrong. Is it safe to say that messages in somewhat weird English are scam? Can't really give an example without copy/pasting here. But at first glance it appears to be normal English, on second thought, phrasing and some of the words are unusual and tenses sometimes wrong as well. I'm assuming if native speakers get things wrong, it's usually typical spelling mistakes, but I could be wrong, hence my question. Advice? That happened to me. Its a scam, it was someone from Africa begging for my email address. Personaly I either ignore them or tell them to phuck off On a completely note; did you see Sullivan Stapleton, SGT. Scott in Strikeback, is playing the lead role in the sequel to 300?

BrianLovesGuitar Joined Sat 08/17/13 Posts: 344	Thu 10/03/13 03:59 AM
I agree with you Crystal, I kept blowing this one guy off for months. He kept trying and I liked that about him. Persistent yet respectful. Point is if men are truly interested, they'll take that extra mile. Hola Crystal Morning All You were blowing one guy off for months...... Mass, comical. really

SparklingCrystal 💖💎 Joined Mon 05/20/13 Posts: 33339	Thu 10/03/13 04:04 AM
I agree with you Crystal, I kept blowing this one guy off for months. He kept trying and I liked that about him. Persistent yet respectful. Point is if men are truly interested, they'll take that extra mile. Hola Crystal Morning All You were blowing one guy off for months...... Mass, comical. really If you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have noticed that one, lol! I will have a look into that 300 sequal with Sullivan Stapleton @ Massiel, agree with you

BrianLovesGuitar Joined Sat 08/17/13 Posts: 344	Thu 10/03/13 04:05 AM
Nah, me and my m8s follow Celtic all over Europe Crystal. We only go to support them, not to fight rival fans like some other teams supporters do. I worked in Munster, Germany before and me and my m8s used to go for nights out in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Miss all that! Here was me hoping the name 'Larsson' meant that you were Scandinavian! You must be loving Neymar the day? That was as good as Rivaldo's 'hit by ball on the the legs and go down holding my face' special. Its dull in the 3rd tier, so ive switched to F1 lol

massiel Joined Wed 05/15/13 Posts: 480	Thu 10/03/13 04:12 AM
I agree with you Crystal, I kept blowing this one guy off for months. He kept trying and I liked that about him. Persistent yet respectful. Point is if men are truly interested, they'll take that extra mile. Hola Crystal Morning All You were blowing one guy off for months...... Mass, comical. really I should be more careful on my wording

lonelyman3036 Joined Mon 08/05/13 Posts: 1590	Thu 10/03/13 07:13 AM
Thanks for the info Crystal! No I do not know much about my ancestors on my father's side. I only know that my last name is Mitchell and my mother's maiden name was Hicks.

SparklingCrystal 💖💎 Joined Mon 05/20/13 Posts: 33339	Thu 10/03/13 07:25 AM Edited by SparklingCrystal 💖💎 on Thu 10/03/13 07:26 AM
Thanks for the info Crystal! No I do not know much about my ancestors on my father's side. I only know that my last name is Mitchell and my mother's maiden name was Hicks. Gotta admit it is a bit confusing: Scots in Northern Ireland?? Must be quite a hotchpotch up there Stew, haggis, steak & kidney pies. I think I'll stick with the Yorkshire pudding, at least I can make that myself and enjoy eating it too! Suddenly I'm thinking crumpets. Yummy! Getting hungry now Think we can better rename this topic "Crystal's chatterbox"

lonelyman3036 Joined Mon 08/05/13 Posts: 1590	Thu 10/03/13 09:07 AM
No doubt,most Americans'spoken english is an assult on queen's english language.My guess is that they are either high on drugs or something similar Dost thou imply that we be drunkards?

SparklingCrystal 💖💎 Joined Mon 05/20/13 Posts: 33339	Thu 10/03/13 09:12 AM
No doubt,most Americans'spoken english is an assult on queen's english language.My guess is that they are either high on drugs or something similar Dost thou imply that we be drunkards? hic

Journeyman236 Joined Thu 05/09/13 Posts: 2786	Thu 10/03/13 09:41 AM
Being in construction for many years, most words in my vocabulary would get bleeped out on here! I've learned to post on here without using them..

Dodo_David Joined Fri 08/13/10 Posts: 48947	Thu 10/03/13 10:28 AM
The title of this thread is misleading. A scammer who uses poor English isn't necessarily a resident of the USA.

SparklingCrystal 💖💎 Joined Mon 05/20/13 Posts: 33339	Thu 10/03/13 10:51 AM
The title of this thread is misleading. A scammer who uses poor English isn't necessarily a resident of the USA. I was trying to find out about poor English among Americans, which probably includes a lot of ppl who haven't been born in the States. Meaning they might be for real, but use/speak English that isn't totally correct.

dcastelmissy Joined Thu 08/01/13 Posts: 39633	Thu 10/03/13 11:03 AM
No doubt a product of their environment, maybe??

Dodo_David Joined Fri 08/13/10 Posts: 48947	Thu 10/03/13 11:03 AM
The title of this thread is misleading. A scammer who uses poor English isn't necessarily a resident of the USA. I was trying to find out about poor English among Americans, which probably includes a lot of ppl who haven't been born in the States. Meaning they might be for real, but use/speak English that isn't totally correct. Are you saying that nobody in England ever uses slang or speaks improper English grammar? Bloody Sasunnach.