Why Americans are so disliked

@Lordyaswas,

I tried this tonight when I got to the studio

Lordyaswas wrote:

"Hi, how are you?"

I got ... good

.... fine

.... ok

... good

... not bad (she's a wordy one eh)

fine

and then I asked the cashier at the grocery store on the way home

... ok

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This is a few years old, but I'm too lazy to look up something fresher: http://worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/views_on_countriesregions_bt/680.php?lb=btvoc&pnt=680&nid=&id=

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Views of US Continue to Improve in 2011 BBC Country Rating Poll

March 7, 2011
Full Report (PDF)

Views of the US continued their overall improvement in 2011, according to the annual BBC World Service Country Rating Poll of 27 countries around the world.

Of the countries surveyed, 18 hold predominantly positive views of the US, seven hold negative views and two are divided. On average , 49 per cent of people have positive views of US influence in the world--up four points from 2010--and 31 per cent hold negative views. The poll, conducted by GlobeScan/PIPA, asked a total of 28,619 people to rate the influence in the world of 16 major nations, plus the European Union.

In 2007 a slight majority (54%) had a negative view of the United States and only close to three in ten (28%) had a positive view; America was among the countries with the lowest ratings. Views began to rise in 2008, with positive views rising to 32% on average, and now the USA is in a middle tier position, ranking substantially higher than China.
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You all should be happy that English was chosen as the dominant language - it could be worse and y'all be yodeling in German by now!

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Knock knock.

Who's there?

Yea, the old lady

Yea the old lady who?

I didn't know you could yodel.

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@Ragman,

That was perfectly intelligible to me.

Dosent mater if I'm Mexican.

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@Lordyaswas,

My Scottish English teacher really made us learn the difference between good and well.

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@saab,

That sounds well good.

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@saab,

Oh greeeet!

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@izzythepush,

She was a well educated person, a good teacher with a really bad temper and a good sence of humour.
Our German teacher was not well educated, a lousy teacher
and nasty and had absolutely no sence of humour.
So they really showed the difference in good and bad and gut und böse

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@FBM,

The other day I saw a German program on TV about Sweden. Swedish is translated into German
The journalist asks a Swedish farmer on an island
"What is is like to live here?"
The farmer answers slowly and quietly in Swedish
".....joh...jaa... it..is...really nice....."
Translated into German.
HIER IST GEMÜTLICH (it is nice here)

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@saab,

Funny, I was taught by Germans in Scotland.

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@saab,

saab wrote:

The other day I saw a German program on TV about Sweden. Swedish is translated into German
The journalist asks a Swedish farmer on an island
"What is is like to live here?"
The farmer answers slowly and quietly in Swedish
".....joh...jaa... it..is...really nice....."
Translated into German.
HIER IST GEMÜTLICH (it is nice here)

Hmm. Only the emphasis "really" is missing. Is that it? I can see how that subtlty could be misleading...a bit...

Needless to say, as an English teacher in Korea, I've seen worse atrocities. Today, for that matter. Wink

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@McTag,

One of the English teachers at our Naval Tactical Academy (45 years ago) was a nice Scottish lady.

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@FBM,

No it is not " really" missing.
It is the difference in speaking.
The Swede slowly and more or less whispering
The German fast, short and loud.

Are we related??? My husbond´s nephew teaches English in Korea.

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@saab,

saab wrote:

No it is not " really" missing.
It is the difference in speaking.
The Swede slowly and more or less whispering
The German fast, short and loud.

Ah! I definitely missed that nuance.

Quote:

Are we related??? My husbond´s nephew teaches English in Korea.

Oh? Bless his heart! Wink

Do you know where he teaches?

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@saab,

ha! that's funny

makes me think of a road trip in the US years ago

I thought I'd go mad listening to the radio while we were driving through Maine ... took them forever to get their words out

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@saab,

saab wrote:

The German fast, short and loud.

Perhaps not a native German speaker? "Hier" and "gemütlich" aren't really short words in the spoken language. (Due to the "ie" and the "ü".)

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@Walter Hinteler,

My next door neighbour is an 80 year old Austrian lady. She says that the German Swiss and the Austrians 'sing' their German language, whereas the Germans "hit theirs out with a hammer."
When her niece arrives every summer and they chat in their garden, it just sounds like German to my untrained ear.

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@Lordyaswas,

Lordyaswas wrote:

When her niece arrives every summer and they chat in their garden, it just sounds like German to my untrained ear.

Actually, that sounds like French.

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