Do you think all British people talk posh?

[Dehumanizer]

Admittedly, though, if it wasn't for slang, than languages might not exist.  Latin slang eventually turned into languages such as Spanish and Italian.

Anywho, sorry to remain slightly off topic, but I was curious as to how British schools taught about the American War for Independence.  I mean, American schools obviously teach it as a patroitic time, but what does modern day Britain think of it?  I'm a making any sense here? :-\

my friend and i am not sure if britsh schools teach about American War for Independence but i think they do it's just we have'nt been taught it yet so we don't no

yes there do

[o0Zelda0o]

Yes they do teach about WW1 and WW2,
I'm in the 9th grade (13 -14) and I'm learning about WW1 in History now.
You learn about WW2 in the 5th grade (9-10), well I did.
^^

(The numbers in the brackets are the age/s you are in that year.)

[alical]

I am in the same year as o0Zelda0o and yeah we just did WW1. We did WW2 in Year 5 as well, but we are doing it again, and in more detail now.

[MasterKeyX]

Really? Dang, I didnt do World War Two or One until 8th grade. You guys did it in 5th!

[darkphantomime]

I am in the same year as o0Zelda0o and yeah we just did WW1. We did WW2 in Year 5 as well, but we are doing it again, and in more detail now.

Wait wait wait, if you're both practically the same age, how come TZ can type better than o0Zelda0o?  :-\ :-\ :-\ :o :o :o :o

I mean no offense... but seriously, WHY????

[Hi no Seijin]

Probably for the same reason I can type faster with fewer mistakes than my friend.  It's just that way.

[Mirakuru]

In relation to the original posed question, no. I'm British, (though it would be very unnatural for me to say "I'm British, I'd choose to say Scottish).

There is no such thing as a British accent as Scottish, Northern Irish, Welsh & all the various English accents come into it. In fact, there are so many dialects and indeed different languages (such as Gaelic & even Scots which can be very different at times) that it would be impossible for someone to claim they spoke British.

[alical]

Haha I remember when I first joined this site, my typing was awful. I think Hi no Seijin actually commented on it one time.
I just sort of phased out of it mainly because my best friend hated it when I spoke like that to him on msn and it rubbed off. I still don't type very well, I very rarely bother with proper punctuation, well on Forums anyway.

Anywho I don't think o0Zelda's0o  typing is that bad.

[chicknumber2]

i am living in britan and i'm in year 8 and just now me and my class mates are getting teached about the ancient egyptions and before that we got teached about skara brae and we're going to be doing ww2 .I'm not at dunndee high but dundee high is a very posh school it cost's about one thousand pounds a term and to me that's a bit posh maby a bit to much

[teedy_man]

I know that this post was ages ago, but I must correct Shikamaru Nara

The accent of Liverpool is nothing like Ron Weaslys. The actor is from Hertfordshire (at least 150 - 200 miles away from Liverpool (and that's a lot in the U.K.) My accent is rather like his.

Any way, I think that people living in other countries (i.e. the predominent one here is the U.S. I expect(sorry if it's Canada - I know quite a few Canadians!)) tend to generalise what the accent of another country is like (i.e. Britain) from movies and tv unless they have come into contact with a common British person. (Most British actors have come from wealthy families and so have a posh accent from going to private school).

For example, the only American accents I thought there were were the Californian and New York accents, because those were the only examples of American life I had seen from tv and film.

Don't get me wrong! I'm not saying this is the way, I'm just saying that this is a possibility.

(I don't talk posh at all)

[DW]

I just realized this, but anyways, maybe everyone could just call me Shika or something, it's a lot easier to type, it's gotta be a pain to type everytime.

anyways, yes, America probably has the broadest range of accents, with all the immigration and such we get.

[darkphantomime]

Funny, I don't really notice any accent among most people. But I do notice southern accents, and I do live in the south.

Sometimes there just doesn't seem to be an accent, and its more of a thing of plain, common english.

And accents of immigrants is often a sort of broken english, being more of a mix and confusion than any true regional dialect. But what matters of 'regional' when things change so quickly in america, with all of these people from everywhere?

I also read that people of the midwest have almost no accent, even though this lack of an accent may be considered an accent onto itself.

What do brits define as completely an 'american' accent? Not a specific regional variant, like NY or CA, or the south, but to any person in this country.

[MasterKeyX]

They would maybe define it as regukar English, with no accent at all, like you said. Then again, i wouldn't know, I'm not British

If anyone on this Forum were to visit me, they'd immediately hear my New York accent. it's really kinda obvious, no matter where i go, people always say "You must be from New York."

[alical]

I always notice accents but I am very poor at actually recognising where they come from. Many people say I talk poshly, which I suppose I do, but my whole family do, except my Dad I think. It's weird because my family originally came from North England who, to us Southerners have very different accents, but I have very few northern traits at all and in fact I quite dislike the way they speak (no offence to any north Englanders but I just don't like it, just as many northerners dislike the posher Southern accent). But, my cousin who now lives in Kuwait absolutely ADORES speaking with a northern accent on occasion. I guess it depends on the person really.

Yeah that probably souns like a load of random nonsense but it makes sense to me.

[oh-how-unreal]

am from the uk and i do not talk posh maybe its because are accents i don't no