Does the English voice sound natural?

@contrex,

As a thread attempting to be helpful....still, I am one of the guilty ones.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

Who would like to translate it into Standard English? I've failed to understand its humor and meaning.

@oristarA,

A farmer sees a man drinking from a puddle and says, 'Don't drink from that, it's full of cow ****.'
The man says 'I'm sorry I'm English, could you seak English please.'
'Yes, use both hands old chap, you can get a little more in your mouth.'

The joke being the hostility between the English and the Scots. The farmer thought the man was Scottish so he warned him about the cow **** in the puddle. When he found out he was English, he told him to carry on drinking.

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@oristarA,

A farmer sees a man drinking from a puddle and says in broad Scottish dialect: "Don't drink out of that - it's full of cow ****"

The man says "Sorry, I'm English. Could you speak English please?" (This is condescending and annoying to the Scotsman)

[The farmer says in upper-class English dialect, comprehensible to the Englishman:]

"Aye (yes) - use both hands, old chap (stereotype English form of address) - you can get a little more in your mouth."

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

A farmer sees a man drinking from a puddle and says, 'Don't drink from that, it's full of cow ****.'
The man says 'I'm sorry I'm English, could you seak English please.'
'Yes, use both hands old chap, you can get a little more in your mouth.'

The joke being the hostility between the English and the Scots. The farmer thought the man was Scottish so he warned him about the cow **** in the puddle. When he found out he was English, he told him to carry on drinking.

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@contrex,

Cool.
Thanks

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@contrex,

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there are two types of gross error that might mislead an ESL learner:

1. Almost every word is started with a capital letter.
2. Misuse of apostrophes in see's and say's.

Considering all the nonsensical prescriptions you've advanced over the years it seems downright silly that you would worry about these "gross errors" confusing ESLs, C.

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@JTT,

JTT wrote:

Considering all the nonsensical prescriptions you've advanced over the years it seems downright silly that you would worry about these "gross errors" confusing ESLs, C.

Your Aspie "prescriptivism" obsession does lead you to say some remarkably silly things, JTT. Did you run out of Adderall?

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@contrex,

Another of your slimy ways to avoid actually addressing the language issues. You should, at the least, get some new nonsense instead of recycling the same old tired responses, C.

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@JTT,

And another innocent thread turns into nasty personal exchanges.

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@McTag,

Oh **** off you sanctimonious, thatcher loving, haggis chomping, nazi git!

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@izzythepush,

I was actually talking about JTT, but I refer you to my previous remark.

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@izzythepush,

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Oh **** off you sanctimonious, thatcher loving, haggis chomping, nazi git!

Thatcher-loving? I've never been so insulted.

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@izzythepush,

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Guess what? Not all English speakers are American.

No kidding

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There is a very slight Chinese accent…….Overall it's very impressive.

I 'm wasn't sure Izzy but in any case I don't recall asserting that it isn't

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@McTag,

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Thatcher-loving? I've never been so insulted.

Mac I think I love you

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I read an article somewhere yesterday saying how the American media seems bemused by the furore in Britain about Mrs Thatcher following her death, especially all the "disrespect" shown by the very many people who are so to speak, dancing on her grave. It seems that many outside Britain see her as some kind of "great leader". Well, many British people don't. The damage she did will last for generations. I personally don't see much to celebrate about the death of a senile 87 year old who has been out of power since 1990, but I am not exactly sobbing and wailing about it. Don't get me wrong - I was and am 100% opposed to what she stood for, but the true, current enemy is not an old woman.

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@contrex,

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I read an article somewhere yesterday saying how the American media seems bemused by the furore in Britain about Mrs Thatcher following her death, especially all the "disrespect" shown by the very many people who are so to speak, dancing on her grave.

The American media is largely a joke. Their job is simply to provide ample cover for all the war criminals and terrorists that inhabit the US of A.

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

It seems that many outside Britain see her as some kind of "great leader".

Some - and a disproportionate percentage of those "some" control media.

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@ehBeth,

Mrs Thatcher's ideology (adviser, Keith Joseph) was to sell off public assets and privatise all she could. Bring in private capital, minimise public spending.
"Selling the family silver", it was called..by a Tory grandee, too.

But now, she is to be granted a political funeral paid for by the public purse.
Not voted for by the public, not even by Parliament, they sidestepped that. If they had chosen a state funeral, there would have to have been a vote.

So this is the ultimate irony, a private funeral with all the military trappings of a state funeral, paid for against their will by the public. It shows the contempt of the administration of the people they are supposed to serve.

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@McTag,

And I'll bet that you didn't even receive an invite, McTag.

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