Americans frighten me
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- čas přidán 17. 12. 2023
- Today I reacted to some very funny and strange things Americans have said and done
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It's true that America has superior technology. In Europe, our children don't even have bulletproof backpacks.
There is a reason for that in fact 😂
That’s because the guns aren’t sold on the same set of racks
I don't know about better technology. Everyone who doesn't live in a major metropolis has abysmal internet, that is also very expensive.....
@@vaniog29 I live in a random town in a Greek island, and I can have the same internet speed as people in Athens. And that's Greece, the land where change is slow 😆The majority of Europe, probably has even better internet speeds.
*@jasoncallow860* _It's true that America has superior technology. In Europe, our children don't even have bulletproof backpacks_
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I’m an American, living in Europe for several decades. There are good reasons for this. When my daughter was about to leave for an exchange year in the US, I warned her to be prepared for American ignorance. She thought I was exaggerating. Two months later, she wrote to tell me that “People here don’t know ANYTHING!!”
My daughter attends a VBS (Viennese state/public bilingual schools i.e not private or fee-paying at all) school in Vienna, Austria Unsurprisingly she has American and half-American classmates who visit the USA for family visits. They come back aghast at the level of ignorance about general topics, rarely anything outside the USA is well understood.
I've seen videos where they don't even know where America is in a map.. Like, how can people be that stupid?
@@RomQxtwell, if Americans understood their own foreign politics they wouldn’t be as patriotic would they ? 😅
@@RomQxt You meant "outside their county"... Because they don't even know their own country anyway.
Imagine being a the world's proclaimed hegemony and your citizens don't know that London is not a country.
I guess the US Education Industrial complex is working as intended.
The argument Americans give to defend the imperial system and I love the most is:
"Well we put a man in the moon "
Yeah, you did. By using the metric system 😂
remind them of that one time they slammed a space probe into Mars because someone messed up units conversion 😆
"Well we put a man in the moon " in?
"wE pUt A mAn On ThE mOoN"
NASA uses the metric system.
@@SilverMe2004 Do you see where the I and O keys are located on your keyboard?
@@ThePlayingDutchman sorry do you mean in the keyboard?
An American once called me uneducated . Why ? Because i wrote in a comment that I'm half Georgian . Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia .He told me that Georgia is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and not a country . Like i didn’t know that USA have a state like this lmao .But ignoring a ancient country like Georgia , thinking that Georgia exists only in the US is ridiculous 🙄 .
You could of course have confused him by using your own word, which is obviously nothing like "Georgia".
The country Georgia has their own name on themselves: Sakartvelo. In a way I think it would be appropriate if the world started to use that name.
as an American im Embarrassed by the ignorance of most Americans that are educated in the public school system. the sad part is most of them are not stupid just uneducated our public schools do not teach much of anything that does not involve America itself.
@@gibsalotpeople not being educated on everything is fine. I don't really mind if someone doesn't know every country in Europe, after all i can't name every U.S. state and much less place them on a map. The problem comes when you combine it with someone who thinks they know everything.
@@madsante I think the problem is still the school system, here in germany or europe even asia for that matter, we are not only taught in a lot of different general and sientific subjects but also to always question stuff, go trough the world with open eyes and curiosity. That in turn often leads to people learning more on their own or having more deeper conversations with others and therefor often having better general knowledge about topics even outside of one own's country or culture. E.g. I (German) was not only taught about Germanys' history but also about Englands', Austrias', the US' and Switzerlands' and even partially Russias', even though that can be because of my proximity to the border.
I'm from Africa, Years ago while *playing online* with an American he asked if we had electricity? I told him no. He was like wow!
Omg, he must've been flabberghasted that you had to game in candle light!
A@@janikarkkainen3904
I was going to make some smart assed remark about the yank but read your comment a few more times…. Now I just felt really bad for him.
Which country in Africa are you from?
Should have told him the word 'gullible' has been removed from the dictionary.😊😊😊
Here in Germany, SMS is extremely outdated. It's something you expected your grandmother to do about five years ago, before she learned how to use WhatsApp.
Ich kenne viele, die SMS nutzen
@@Muriel20091 in meinem Umfeld und was ich generell so mitbekomme, nutzen jedenfalls alle WhatsApp, SMS zu nutzen wäre da inzwischen schon sehr ungewöhnlich und altmodisch.🤷♀️ Aber es gibt sicherlich auch ein paar Leute die WhatsApp und ähnlichen Apps nicht trauen.
I’m from Chile an here the sms are only used by companies to send spam and scammers XD
@@Muriel20091ich habe noch nie jemanden getroffen der das noch benutzt
@@iamarealhuman6359 hm, ich schon 🤷♀️
I as a German once was asked by an American student (!) when we celebrate the 4th of July.
Me: we don't do that at all
He: eeeee...why that?! Ah yeah, you Germans lost the war, you would be traitors to celebrate us.
Me: we don't celebrate 4th of July because it's no German but an US holiday.
He: no! It's everywhere 4th of July, the whole free world celebrates 4th of July.
Me: I guess you are wrong. 4th of July is the US holiday in rememberance of 1776 and the independence from Britain. It is your own holiday due to your nation's history.
He: you lie. On 4th of July we won over Nazi Germany and freed you, we gave you independence. You should celebrate us.
Me: well, in fact that's the false century. You refer to the Third Reich that existed from the 1930s up to 1945.
He: you are wrong. I am American, I should know better.
At that point I lifted my hands and surrendered. "Yes, you should."
And no, it was no ironic joking around. This real conversation happened in 2014 in Hamburg, Germany.
Hinzu kommt noch, dass die Wehrmacht des 3. Reiches am 9. Mai ihre Kapitulation erklärt hat. Die Amerikaner feiern den 9.5. auch gar nicht.
Just asking, how old was he, approximatively ?
@@Flalga I guess he was at the beginning of his 20's.
Their Google must be different.
The Russians took Germany!
I'm a Brit. I currently live and work in America. A guy once asked me if we had computers in England. I told him that we didn't, we use the abacus instead, and that I used to be an abacus engineer, and would often have to program them for the users, and other bs. He was taking this all in as gospel truth. To be fair though, he eventually saw that I was taking the piss. Eventually.
I can't... You killed me...!😂😂😂😂
LMAOOOOOO
How much time it took?
my dad used to do this all the time when he moved to the states, from time to time he still does things like this, and some do genuinely believe the rubbish he comes up with.
how and why did he even think that? did he never see a british person on the internet or what?
As an Australian, I would say no to becoming an American Citizen.
Yeah when he said Australians I was like "Not a fucking chance in hell 🤣"
Maybe 1 in a thousand Canadians might bite. The dumb ones.
I'm with that. Why would anyone from Australia or New Zealand take a major down grade in all living conditions.
Nobody thinks abt Australia LMAO. Live off and consume American culture on a daily, as you're on an American app, on ur American phone etc etc. what a fool
@@TheTheotherfoot Most US states have higher living standards then even the most developed parts of Australia and NZ, US living standards as a whole are similiar to AUS, US has higher wages, more opportunities etc, improving it even higher.
Fun fact, here in Brazil there is an USA citizens exclusive line in customs but just because we do extra security checks just to Americans to mirror what they do to foreigners due to the patriot act
Good on Brazil!
And many americans believe it's because they are top level that they are allowed to have a special lane just for them 🤣
Cool
I love this😂😂😂😂
Buddy, the Patriot Act does more to stereotype white Veterans than anyone else. Been a victim of their profiling before and in the end, even though I served this country, I gleefully wait for its demise.
About english, I just love Jimmy Carr's response when he was asked about his accent.
His response: "I don't have an accent. This is what it sounds like when it is pronounced properly". :)
Or another one of his quotes (to an American about the English language). ‘It’s our language. You f****** ruined it’
Yes, he has an accent, it's an inevitable part of speaking
No idea, honestly. I have a Tennessee accent and people keep mistaking me for a northerner here.
There's SO MANY accents in English now. O_O
@@HTMangakanow? Do you think they're new? 😂
I read somewhere ages ago that general American actually conforms more to the common English spoken at the time of colonization. However, I think there is no way to pronounce English properly. Not because of some lofty ideal that the language belongs to everyone, but because it's a Frankensteins monster of multiple tongues, and there is no objective right way.
As a German who learned English mainly from CZcams, I always find the pronounciation war between Britain and America funny because every time I speak I‘m randomly switching between them with every word
Yes I do the same xD
My pronunciation is more American though (learned English because I watched a lot of American youtubers).
But usually spell stuff the way British do because that's what I learned at school and got used to.
@@trixfox45 same haha
you are actually pronouncing that stuff right? Damn. Learning english by reading stuff really messed up my pronounciation
@@nordos oh my god reminds me of the time I didn't know the difference between since and science. So I would pronounce since as science xD
Can be difficult if you never really hear some words before and also doesn't help if you think you are right for some reason. I was (and still am) stupid.
Same here, born Hungarian, my pronounciation is super typical Hungarian accent.
A typical Hungarian accent is most noticeable when you say *R* , Americans and others say it like "urrhh, but when we say it, it sounds like a machine gun😭
First time I went to America a woman asked me if we had television in Scotland lol I didn’t tell her a Scotsman invented it I just said what is television
Yeah, it's so easy for us Scots to take the piss out of the Yanks. They are so gullible. Have you ever told them the tale of the Great Haggis Hunt?
Oh this is the only appropriate response lmao
"What is television? We've got the Holo Net." And she would buy it, she's american. Some times they just realize that they are ignorant and then believe everything you tell 'em ^^
Back four decades someone from my school went to the US and back to Germany: The American kids asked they guy if we (the Germans) have cars. He asked them if they ever heard of BMW, Mercedes, Porsche. They said "Oh, they are German cars?!"
I mean, who would associate something with an Otto or Diesel engine with Germany. But I'm sure no one would notice if I call a Sterling engine American (/s) ;D
Americans will come back at you and say it wasn't JLB: it was Philo T Barnsworth, whoever that is.
One time i talked with American guy online and he asked me where I am from. Told him i am from Croatia. He asked where is that i told him in Europe. Then he asked where is Europe. When he noticed i am not asking him where he is from he asked me do i not want to ask him where he is from and i told him i know he is American and he asked me how did i know.
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LOL
"America is a third world country with lots of money"
-a european chick
true
I had exactly the same thought after I moved from the UK to Texas.
As someone from a „third world country“, i am offended. Lol your comment is very far from truth. Most of the countries you refer tomhave better education (in fact, we are those that can point to all european countries correctly while europeans usually don’t know much about the so called third world either - and your comment actually proves my point), better maternity leave policies, consume much less etc…
@@user-ft7lv6it8nI talked with like 20 Americans on CZcams through other videos comment section,and non of them could point on Poland,Netherlands,Belgium, Portugal,the 15 of them could point UK,16 of them France,12 Italy,8 Spain,3 Germany,and Poland 0.
Nah.
@@jokekopter2509 and these are "easy" countries, I would like to see a round of Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Algeria, Egypt and Sri Lanka. Ah wait but Egypt is not a real country, that exists only in Cleopatra movies .... PS. Lived in the US. Had a discussion with a person from Florida who just wouldn't accept that the gulf of Mexico is a gulf of the Atlantic not Pacific and also unsure if Florida was next to Atlantic or Pacific ocean. They lived on the coast. Not all Americans are ignorant but the overall level and prevalence of ignorance are just mind boggling.
Just the other day an American in a Facebook group quite seriously commented that "most people in England don't have cars because they are too poor". When I corrected this belief she rather snippily told me i could learn a lot from Google and quoted internet figures on population size and car ownership. She didn't seem to realise that a good proportion of the population are too young, too old, too disabled to own a car or that for very good reasons, other than poverty, might choose to have one family car. I've only lived here for 68 uears (and been a car owner for 49) but she knew better.
It's the confidently incorrect that I can't cope with. It's one thing to be ignorant. I can sort of accept that, we can all live and learn. But when you do correct them and do happen to know better, most compound their mistake by denying they're incorrect at all. I don't get why.
i got told by an American, that shoulder check while driving a car is dangerous....
i said yes, if you dont do it!
Also in UK and European cities there is normally a decent public transport system, so many city dwellers don’t bother to own a car. They just hire one on the few occasions a year they might need one.
@@marylynne9104 i use my bicycle for shopping!
@@Arltratlo - that’s great.
As an American, I can confirm that I am also afraid of Americans.
And I do apologize on behalf of my countrymen because you can be sure they won’t do it themselves.
self-hating Americans be like, but anyway genuinely like 99% of the video and the other America bad videos are just cherry-picking comments that are made by stupid people which are a fraction of a percent.
no need to apoligise, it wasn't you.
@@hegemon8 most US Americans been indoctrinated into it...
thes a few that got the light bulb switched on moment when visiting other countries... sadly very few...
It's ok it's entertaining , 😂 ,
May I add my voice to yours?
I love how we (Brits) are apparently pronouncing English wrong when we're the ones who spoke it first 🤔
If only they knew their country only exists because we europeans wanted another way to Asia and accidentally found a new place to colonize.
@@picklerick2861 Right. The bitter irony in the fact that a few generations ago..they were Europeans.
@@picklerick2861 and then shipped a lot of criminals and war prisoners over to America to get rid of em lmao
@@raa9756 maybe that's why they love guns so much
I'm not British myself but I use a lot of British pronunciations when I speak English (in Poland you basically get British English in school and American English in movies etc so we kinda mix things up). NONE of my American friends can get over my British pronunciation of "either" and "neither". It's funny as hell and I have to admit to switching to as many British pronunciations as possible whenever I hang out with them. These poor souls are always so confused xD
I visited my relatives in the USA back in ‘18. One day before we went to pick up some shopping, we went to one of my cousins friends cos he needed to get something from him. The cousins friend was shocked that I came to the USA. He asked 3 questions which, in my mind exemplified the “typical American behaviour” that we all know.
1. How is your American so good?!(answer; you’re speaking English. I’m English… of course I fucking speak English!)
2. You have 1 months PAID VACATION?? (answer; yes, because I live in a civilised country)
3. Do you have cell phones in your country now? (answer; no we’re all telepaths… the fuck do you think??)
Ohh and he also tried to give me advice when you’re on a plane; he has never left Kansas never mind been on a plane. 😐
'don't fly on a boeing plane, unless you like free in-air entertainment of the scary kind'
ewww iam just believe you made this shit up cause this is cringe like 100% dear god hope this is something you made up to rag on Americans
I had the same thing, they were confused that I was from Europe, but could speak English! Most Europeans can, and especially the ones from the UK! 😂
@@ffotograffydd they never learn any other languages so maybe they just never realize that other people have to learn 2 or sometimes 3 languages in school
Just try asking them about medical bills, college funds and about getting fired and how much time they need to still employ you after that.
I'm Polish, but when I was a teenager, I spent a year in the US, and went to an American school. Before they organized a special English class for foreign students, I attended the regular English classes. On the second or third day, there was a written test. I was one of the very few students who didn't make any mistakes. My English was very far from perfect and it still isn't.
As someone from England, I find it's extremely common for Europeans who speak English as a second language to be better at it than actual English, English speakers. I guess this is because you're taught it properly, while growing up with it as your primarily language you pick up slang and different dialects. I find the Dutch are especially excellent at languages! I have friends from many parts of Europe and English is the common thread that binds us. It's a stereotype but largely true that many English speakers don't learn another language because everyone else also speaks English. I guess to be a citizen of the world you'd need to speak English, Spanish and Mandarin in order to communicate in most places.
@@TalesOfWarYou are absolutely correct. I also think the dutch are amazing at learning languages. Another thing. I went to Israel in 2014 and we were a bit surprised by how good their english was because almost nobody, of the people we knew, took english classes. Their second language is russian but since they don't synchronize their television they watch it in english and learned it this way. So with 12/13 years old most of them were fluent in three languages, Hebrew, Russian and English.
My favorite story is about this American tourist who told off a tour guide during a tour of a castle.
He reasoned that because the U.S. has only existed for over 2 centuries, it was "impossible for Europeans to have built cities and castles that are many centuries older than the U.S." 😂
I was once outside the Tower of London, and heard an American say in wonder "it must be 150 years old"
@@RevStickleback 👍🏻😂
they're also allegedly known for complaining medieval castles are built too close to the railway tracks
@@KennaDeMerkedo or that its cold inside
@@KennaDeMerkedo Can you imagine they've built Windsor castle so close to Heathrow? What were they thinking?!
An American co-worker explained to me why Americans have such weird conceptions about Europe.
He told me that the only things they learn in high school about Europe are basically that once there were Romans, then there were knights and then a couple of centuries nothing much happened until there were communists and nazis.
That's why many Americans seem to believe Europe is a war-torn continent where everybody is a poor communist that doesn't have access to the internet and modern "American" technology, such as smartphones and tablets.
They also believe we have "socialist" free healthcare, altough our healthcare system is heavily funded with taxes and monthly insurance fees.
We pay for healthcare through our taxes in the Kingdom of Denmark, but we don’t pay insurance fees on top of that. Nor do we pay extra if we are admitted to a hospital.
Your Co-worker is lying to you, most American youth nowadays are way more educated on world geography than their elders. We know our situation, we know their situation.
Funding generalized government services with taxes rather than privatized businesses is socialism
Europeans 100% pay less in taxes (towards healthcare) than Americans do in health insurance
@@NathansWargames You pay the equivalent of a hospital bill in like 5 years. STFU
The guy threatening to call NATO?
Well, Greece has been a member of NATO since 1952...
Greek police is gonna go there and stop the greek police.
don't tell Americans that the NATO HQ actually is located in Brussels not in the USA...
I gotta say that the fact that I was born in europe and not in the U.S is what I am most grateful for in my life. Seriously
It’s like a 200 year social experiment that has gone badly wrong!
I think of it like this America is a Teenager, its acting like a teenager does, I hate everyone i am the best, its getting into trouble, the rest of the world i more like young adults or older people we have gone tbrough the terrible teens hundreds f years ago
Could have worked out though. Sexism and Racism used to big really big problems, but in the decades after WW2 things were better socially. The New Deal, GI bill etc. But they have managed to roll back many positive changes, really mess up some (prisons, health system, traffic etc.) of their systems and just generally regress.
Now differences in social class are what increasingly determines - according to Putnam - how well you are doing in the US. But you can't talk about that. It's probably why the various politically correct discourses are so strong. Much more convenient to assume that all problems are indiviual problems or of this or that small group. Not that anybody gets the idea that things are messed up in a more general sense.
funny
@@burningsheep4473 sexism and racism still are really big problems, and have always been. And whilst is has gotten decidedly better since WW2 i dont think the problems are geting worse now really. They are just more visable. I do however agree that the US has been moving backwards in general lately. As have many other countries and people in general.
As the UK comedian Al Murray describes it: “America - a good idea that got out of hand!’.
The misconception I love the most is american view on measurement system. They call imperial measurement system as an american one or freedom units. But none of them put any thought about why is it called "imperial". 'Cause it originates from British Empire, that's why.
And they still manage to get liquid measurements wrong.
They don't use Imperial anyway!
They use US Customary Measures instead.
No it doesn't
@@RichWoods23
They get weights wrong too.
Imperial:
16oz = 1lb
14lb = 1 stone
2 stone = 1 quarter
4 quarters = 1 hundredweight (8 stone, 112lbs)
20cwt = 1 ton (2240lbs, 'long ton')
US Customary:
16oz = 1lb
100lb = 1 hundredweight
20cwt = 1 ton (2000lbs, 'short ton')
I heard, that in North America a plane was short on fuel, because candian gallons (british) were ordered but american gallons they got. Could have been with lbs too, because of long ton and short ton. Big planes use lbs or kg small planes like Cessna usually with gallons - american gallons that is.
Im swiss, born there, raised there for more than 18 years of my 24 years, know the language, went to school there and have generations of swiss family members plus obviously the passport; from switzerland not sweden, i had a conversation with an american once who claimed to be swiss, (the shock of they actually meant switzerland not sweden impressed me but that was short lived) the conversation was something like this:
He: your accent is soft but there is one, where are you from? it sounds unusual
me: oh yea i hear that a lot, im swiss, from switzerland not sweden... its because i grew up bi langue (speaking two languages) english and swissgerman. (i have american family members that live in switzerland, my cousins ?once-twice removed? mum will be important later)
He: oh thats awesome, im swiss too!
me: oh? ok so did you move to america or were you born there?
he: i was born there!
me: oh thats cool so you have dual citisenship like my cousin!
he: oh no i dont
me: but if one or both your parents are swiss then you have the right to a swiss passport...
he: him oh no both were born and raised in america!
me: um... so your grandparents are swiss?...
him: nah both american too! im 5th or 6th generation swiss!
me: so... you dont know swissgerman, you dont know swiss french you dont know swiss italian nor do you know any high german... you dont speak the language, youve never lived nor set a foot in the country, you dont have the passport and none of your parents or grandparents are swiss aka are from there regarding birth, knowing the language and or have the passport?...
he: well, yea but were swiss regardless.
me: *swears in swiss german* no youre not. unless you understood me just now youre not swiss and you never will be unless you learn our culture, language and actually have the fucking passport or at least some form of visa allowing you to live there.
My great great great great great [...] great great parents were all fishes. I have the right to swim in this aquarium
The fact you speak Swiss German, Swiss French, Swiss Italian and a High German on top of that is a wild fact I never knew. I always assumed people just speak German in Switzerland. Thanks for the knowledge, you learn something new everyday.
This right here is exactly the same argument of the African American community. i get it your ancestors are from Africa but you are not African your American just like everyone else born and raised in America. Elon Musk has a better argument that he is African American given he was Born and raised in South Africa.
@@manoftherainshorts9075 i persnally only speak swiss german and swiss french and german and english, and a bit Affrikaans and a tiny bit of Japanese and Latin. but no worries im happy to share our national languages, we have 4 swiss german, swiss french, swiss italian and romanch, the latter is unfortunately dying out with less than 2k people in the WORLD speaking it which is a shame. and for more fun facts about switzerland, mac and cheese is a dish originating in switzerland so are hashbrowns ☺ im happy to learn of cultures and im happy to share mine, have a wonderful day!
@@gibsalot i fully agree. im happy for them to have their black american culture sure by all means but they arent african and the people i spoke to in africa the ones i went to school with didnt believe me when i said that some americans claim that, its a bizarre phenomenon only really found in america its very weird to me and apparently the rest of the world too.
I was in Indonesia once when I was 16 years old and an American PhD holder, and professor of a State University that I got into a conversation with was surprised that I was well-read, knowledgeable about a range of things and "probably one of the smartest people he has ever met". Oh boy I feel for him. I'm just a normal person 😂
i watched a documentary that was put on youtube where they were suggesting that america should adopt a healtcare system like Australia and they had this learned professor from a supposed reputable university make his case. I have never heard so much dribble from a human being that was supposed to be highly educated. could not make a rational argument to save his life except for meruca. If this guy worked at the university I am currently studying at he would have been fired after the first sentence for overwhelming stupidity.
Gosh! A Ph.D at 16 years old is impressive. I had to look that up. You must be Kim Ung-Yong, born in 1962, receiving a Ph.D at 15 and listed in the Guinness Book of World Records has having the highest IQ at 210. I admire your humility, and am impressed that you’ve taken the time to post a comment on a CZcams video.
@@MrNScatt If you are not just trolling, than you could try to read it again (hint: the professor is the Phd holder).
@@kicsilaci Ah, the proper use of commas sure would be helpful.
@@MrNScattthat is not what he said
That American lad is going to be a bit shocked to find out he was still in NATO, since Greece is a member state.
Yeah, and I'd like to mention that this guy, beside being uneducated, was... HARASSING WOMEN... Which is a total combo for forever shame.
@@garryiglesias4074 Dude was lucky he was in Greece, in some countries, if you harass local women, you get beaten by ultra nationalists..
Besides why would NATO even care about a tourist harassing people?😂
@@_Heckler there's a NATO base in Chania where this took place and this guy was an American sailor, probably based there. He was not just a random tourist.
Oh ok
As an English dude I legitimately cringe when an American tells me I'm saying / spelling a word wrong. I always ask them what language they're speaking. Most of the time they say "English". Usually after that a silence is enough for them to think about what they've just told me.
i have been asked that before i usually respond with Americanised english because the euros the Australians new zealanders the british all speak thier own versions of english although i am fond of adding the u in certian words even though im born and raised in boston the u in colour and behaviour armour always felt more natural in spelling for me
Thats the smart reply to that!
Yes ours is the true English
Don't know why they had to change words like nappy to diaper or tap to faucet. Tap more easy surely and purse for handbag.
@@tenniskinsella7768 That's because of the confusing aspect of the English language, more meaning to certain words... to tap on the table or to run the tap 😂 I'm assuming that's what the thought was behind the change, similarly the word Holiday was vacation because of the season "holidays" 🤔🤔🤔 I still don't understand the changes either though.... diaper is actually the original word comes from European language which is English, British English made up of European languages and again other words you pointed out are also British English just used to describe different items, a purse is still a bag of money essentially and a handbag is generally a bag of essential womens items ie. Makeup perfume sanitary ect that women carry. Faucet and tap description is very different but still originally British English coming from the original European languages another French word of the many adapted to the British English
@@tenniskinsella7768 Funnily enough, it's often us, not the Americans, that changed words. The words we think they changed are just what was common in the 1700s.
1:53 American waiters are literally beggars but with work responsibilites on top of that
The fact that you googled a word that you weren't sure about makes you better than most of the population of america
They always brings up this freedom thing... they are so free that they don't even have healthcare and days to go on holidays etc. Really the land of freedom xD
It makes them happy to think they have freedom, so don't disillusion them . . .
@@ceejay0137 True. You have a point :D
They do seem to have a rather unique idea of what freedom means. It - somehow - seems to be at the same time both rather nebulous and - ironicaly - limited.
For example: They generally consider having a car as a symbol and garantor of freedom (go where you want, when you want) but at the same time, many live in a place where they have no other choice BUT to use the car if they want to get anywhere. And they don't seem to see the contradiction.
according to the freedom index the US is not even in the top10
@@samuelsamenstrang6069 And neither is the UK, in fact, although we're at 14 and the USA at 15, so not much in it.
As a german I can asure you that british english is actually closer to other european languages than american english. That's kinda funny that americans say you should at least try to pronounce foreign words right when they most the time don't.
I had problems working with Americans. I didn't have that immediate instinctive reaction when someone was calling my name which is Daniel. It was quite annoying to them. I'm German too and i tried to convince them that this wasn't intentionally. They said i would make things up so i thought i started pronouncing their names the German way.^^
And i have to add: Das war nur ein Amerikaner in dem Video der das gesagt hat aber is klar was du meinst. Ist keine Seltenheit.
Americans pronouncing the word “buoy”. Hurts my brain.
This comment makes me think of aluminium and yoghurt 😂 English is a European language 👍 British English is the English language, made up of words from European languages over centuries. British language was taught throughout the British colonies that's why so many countries speak some form of English
Since english originated in England (shock horror), I think it should be pretty obvious who speaks it better.
@@highlyopinionated5611 actually it's origins are Ingvaeonic from 5th to 7th century. Germanic, Anglo-Saxon, originating from what is now North western Germany, southern Denmark, Netherlands (shock horror) 🙄😂
7:50
That's such an American thing to say
"193 countries use one system and us two use another..those 193 should change it to ours"
In my country, we have villages with houses older than the United States.
Personally, I own furniture that is older than United States, as well.
is that a flex?
@@efeddwdw9782 plain facts, really.
My primary school was older than USA 💀💀💀
@@dr.k1012 wow ur school with black mold and crumbling infrastructure is older then the US? what a flex
@@efeddwdw9782 great way to prove the point by not knowing how restoration & up keep works
When I was a police officer, I went to California on holiday. I met two officers on venice beach and in conversation, I mentioned being an officer. One actually said " oh do they have police in England? I literally had no response to give!
My response would have been, "That's where modern policing was fucking invented!"
You're right but I was gobsmacked into silence
I was asked if Im envious of the moon here in Europe. This girl really thought only they can see it. The moon! Ive rarely been this torn between crying and laughter, while stunned to absolute silence.
Nah, everyone behaves well, so we don't need no police 💀
England had Constables 500 years before the USA was even thought of.
Ugh George. We obviously don’t think strawberry milk comes from red cows. They come from pink ones.
Obviously, George. You're thinking of bloodshakes.
No no, it comes from Strawberries. Haven't you seen that reaction video of a gay guy explaining this? "It doesn't come from a cow because it's strawberry milk". A vegan video.
Five burly men sits there like "HUH?!".
@@WournosFromTwitch Pssh. You don’t know what you’re talking about
@@Lyddy-Draws I'm pretty sure I'm right. I saw that online. It has to be true. :P
@@WournosFromTwitch
Yes, I've read it on a Facebook post sometimes ago. If it's on Facebook, then it's almost 99% true.
I've been called a liar online when I said I didn't own any sheep cos an American assumed that as a Scot I must live on a croft and keep livestock. I also had someone else accuse me of lying about being Scottish because "Scotland doesn't have the internet because you don't have electricity"...
I'll apologise for spreading those rumours to multiple Americans, but just be glad you aren't Welsh 😂
In Europe, Super Bowl is a marketing campaign by Lidl
or a very very nice nocturnal bird of prey
We Finns were so poor in the 90's that we had to invent our own mobile phones and text messages.
it went so well that Microsoft infiltrated into Nokia. and later bought Nokia's phones business
And now Nokia is forgotten 😢
@@Finskiorzelunfortunately for sure 🥲🇦🇹
@@Finskiorzel still nokia were the most durable phones i've ever had, i swear those things could be use as a weapon
@@Finskiorzel Gone, but not forgotten
I was in a store in Madison, Wisconsin and chatting with the clerk when she asked me where I was from. I have lived for a couple of years in England, East End London, so my accent was definitely not American MidWest. When I told her that I come from Romania, she stopped and made a conscienscious effort to recall the whatever info she might have had about the subject. Nothing came though, and after some 20 seconds she asked me, smiling;
"Is that east coast or west coast?"
Lost my dinner bursting out laughing. Thx. 🤣
@@georgesvanbaelen6492 someone else asked me, later:
" Oh, Romania, how nice! How long does it take to drive there?"
@@tepesvoda464 Leave America immediately
West coast... of the Black sea. Salutations neighbour, live long and prosper!
@@orthodox-mp6hv I was thinking East Coast of Europe.
When i was about 8, i went to America with my parents on holiday. My dad and i went to a book store and the man who worked there was really friendly, he asked us where we were from and my dad answered "were British but we currently live in Brunei." He didnt know where it was so my dad grabbed a book with the world map in it. The man said, "ok let me just orientate myself... this is america, right?" And pointed to Australia. My dad says he will never forget the look of disbelief on my face. 😂
Wouldn't a world map even have the name of the country written on it? Jeez
"Dear clients: Please pay our staff. We don't want to do that. Thank you."
"remember the waiter doesn't have a salary"
But he works for them, why should I pay him? 😭
I already paid for my service. I'm not paying twice. I'll never tip because it's encouraging a disgusting system. I'm sorry for the employees, but it's their employers responsibility to pay them a better salary. I'm happy to pay slightly more for the service, assuming it's the same price as elsewhere, if that extra goes towards wages.
That's not even tho most ridiculous example of tipping culture getting out of hand I've seen. Some self checkout counters in certain popular store chains give you a prompt whether you'd like to tip the store or not. 🤡
@@totallyalpharius507maybe the programmers also don't have a salary?
merikah
@@totallyalpharius507 I lot of bars in England have the card reading machine bring up a prompt asking "Do you want to leave a tip?" Usually the bar staff will press the 'no' button without even asking.
Thinking of "more advanced", as a Canadian, I went to the US a little while ago and was weirded out that none of the stores did chipping to insert the card, let alone tap or use cell phones, you had to swipe your card the old fashioned way with the magnetic strip. Felt like I'd gone back in time 15 years or so.
When I was in NY a few years back, not only did I have to swipe/PIN my card at department stores, I then had to sign the receipt as well. It’s like they missed the entire purpose of a PIN.
pretty sure my cards can't even be used for swipe
What really weirded me out when I was in the states (which was 25 years ago) There were no pin-number nor a ID check which was pretty much standard back then, just a swipe and thank you very much. I mean dude, what if someone had gotten hold of my credit card?
Don't forget paying bills by check, in 2017 I implemented a new IT system and had to activate the check functionality because the US company only used check ;)
@@MariusELarsen personal and company cheques haven’t been used in Australia, except in rare circumstances, for years, and getting your wages paid by cheque hasn’t been a thing for decades. In fact, my bank hasn’t offered cheque books for years.
I love how some Americans don't connect English with England. They both literally start with Engl, and people from England are called the English. I will give them that American is kind of a branch of English, but it is all English that comes from England.
The yank versions is either.
Badly spoken english
Or
English for stupid people
This reminds me of that time when a american tried to tell me my country did not have democracy because we had a king. amazing logic there.
Another once tried to tell me that the EU was worse than the usa because our milkshakes are smaller.
As an American, I have to say that the milkshake metric sounds like a rock solid standard to use.
At least in the EU you can. be sure your milkshake has actual milk in it. Just think of all the American sweets/candy we have over here that have "flavour" on them because they lack enough of the actual thing it's claiming to be to be legally classed as such. Like the "chocolate" in Reece's Pieces.
6:21 Can confirm that growing up in the US (i am old, however, so maybe this isn't the same anymore), it was basically very much implied that we were the only free country. i'm serious. we all thought other countries didn't have freedom and believed EVERYONE'S goal was to move to America one day.
That’s so pathetic. Literally no other country does that and it’s so baffling.
American exceptionalism in a nutshell
I, too, am old. Haha! I grew up in the U.S. but on a reservation. We weren't taught that. I guess it just depends on where you are from.
@@JB-vv6vu definately not taught, more like implied like the first person said. i dont remember ever being taught about other countries and their governments, which probably leads majority of americans assuming without realizing that america is #1 or whatever
@@scarlett6143 I went to school on the rez when I was young, then off when I was older. Maybe those implications about the U.S. start during younger school years? We focused on learning about our culture and language when I was young. When I was older at school and off the rez, I don't remember learning about other countries either. My experience is obviously not the majority. It's an awkward in-between place for us Natives/Indigenous people.
I remember when EU started to demand pre check for US passport holders and people here in the US were all grievances. Little they know how awful it is to get into the US. It is almost like a North Korea inside out.
This made me laugh, when you look at the statistics of US citizens that actually own a passport and also the statistics of those that actually leave the states to another country 😂
Many years ago I was flying from Germany to the UK. Tis was in the days of hand held security scanners. Two American teens said" you're not doing that to me" the, female, security guard said no problem?". When they tried to go through she just said. NO. If you don't get scanned you don't fly!
I literally had the tsa ask me if I was a nazi when I was using my french passport not my Irish one 😂....wrong side my dude
As an Italian i discover in America many italian immigrants founded towns with the same name of where they were from and here come the horror...
I worked at the Venice Cruise Port, where i met thousand of american tourist. As many know Venice is a City built over the Venice Lagoon and have no cars and of course no streets, ONLY CHANNELS FOR BOAT...
An American started arguing with the guide because she was not stupid, she knew Venice is a copy of the WONDERFULL city of Venice... in the US... where she's from...
Zio cazzo dici , venice have a quarter of his expansion on the lagoon the other part is reachable with trucks even ,
50 years old gentleman from USA looking at the Danube river:
" For sure you got many gator here"
" Actually we don't"
" I mean in the water"
"No, we don't have alligators here, in fact in all Europe"
" So you don't know"
"I know that there are no gators"
" LIAR! They are everywhere!"
And he walked away...
damn Americans really have that "main character" syndrome
These people are all legally able to vote. That scares the crap out of me.
And in their “democracy”, gerrymandering and voter suppression are rampant. Things not at all compatible with calling oneself “world’s greatest democracy”.
And Donald Trump loves the undereducated.
And for what president do they vote? Trump😂 good choice guys
@@Kaisasjh Nah. Even better, some incredibly old guy who can't count to 1 or climb stairs. 😂
Its funny how such a big country, with so many people, one would think they should have better candidates then Trump and Biden..
As someone who's also learning Polish, the pronunciation is actually the easy part.
Kurwa! lol
As a polish person, yes. Says a lot about this godforsaken language.
Do you guys also have seven cases, mandatory double (or any multiple but never single) negatives, and freeform, unfixed word order in sentences like Serbian does?
@@Elriuhilu Seven cases and unfixed word order - yes. Double (or more) negative is possible, but not mandatory, so there is a difference there.
My parents are polish and i couldn't do it. All i ever learned was "Dzyndobre" (idk how it's spelled) and obviously all the basic words. Never even managed to get a full sentence right. i wish you the best of luck in becoming the kielbasa making gigachad you want to be.
That American soldier arrest in Greece has a lot more depth, when you learn that in the past, several American soldiers accused of harassing and even raping greek girls, were bailed out by their superior officers, and were sent back in the US, without even have to face the Greek justice. This soldier knew very well what he was doing when he called for Nato.
American: "I STAND WITH X STATE"
Me: "Where is X state on the map?"
American: "Uhh..."
The part about Americans having a right to life is a joke given that some states still have the death penalty.
when u get arrested you lose rights
@@cornelieus_gorbichevright to life clearly states it cannot be taken away from you or given away by you so no. Police cannot take away your right to life. Murica raaah
@@cornelieus_gorbichev moron.
😂
The 13nth amendment also bans slavery *except as a punishment*.
The guy above is right though. You effectively lose your rights once you are convicted of a crime so they cans end you to jail, depending on the kind of crime you never get them back (owning a gun, etc).
As a Brit who lived in Australia and now settled in New Zealand, I would most certainly say "NO" to being a US citizen. Things like healthcare, education ,infrastructure - oh yes, and not having the daft electoral system, would sway my decision.
But then the States wouldn't be equal.
Plus, public transporation only exists in the big cities. You need a car for almost everything else.
@@yvonnehorde1097 "Exists" Is doing a lot of heavy lifting there
@@phillawrence5148 But should the Wyoming and Vermont be equal to California and Texas ? isn't it unfair ? And anti-democratic ?
@@thecakeisalie9228 No, individual states would then have to much sway over the rest of the country.
Funny to me that a lot of those com are related to the "liberty of chosing their "transportation mode" without realising that because of the lack of transportation mode they are unable to chose and are indeed force to take a car.
I'm French and i have a lot of American friends who don't know anything about Europe, or the rest of the world in general. I said i lived in a village when i first met one of them and she asked if i had to go fetch water to the "village's well" ??? Villages are a current thing in Europe, it's just smaller communities but we still have everything. You can go anywhere in the country side and have fiber internet. Then another friend from the same group didn't know the difference between EU and UK and has never seen a map of the world. I had a Canadian friend take the seterra map test of Europe and he clicked on the Netherlands when he was supposed to find Germany, and many more big mistakes. And i won't even talk about all the clichés Americans think of when i say that i'm French to them. HONHONHON BAGUETTE CROISSANT PAIN AU CHOCOLAT SURRENDER
Tu vis là bas?
Je suis Anglais, j'adore La France. Ma femme est Americain. Elle deteste La France. Pour-qoi? I've no fricking idea. She just has some weird ideas from her childhood that she can't put into words. Well, meaningful words.
@@Skraeling1000 Ah, an English friend! Yeah, most people that dislike France don't even know why they do tbh. But i bet that she likes Italy because it's more present in the American culture, seen better at least.
@@LeFlibu Non
Tbh I think American attitudes to the french actually just straight racism
When my friend gone to England and said he is from eastern europe, the landlord, who was a middle age woman, started to explain to him what is a microwave, a car and all kind of stuff, because she thought in eastern europe, people still use horse carriage and living in middle age settings. So not just americans are strange.
Brits are basically the Americans of Europe, so no surprise
look Borat!
@@kuinchadI can’t believe I was about to say the same thing!!!🤣
Yeah I think every country has some impressibly ignorant people. USA just seems to have a higher % of them.
I would thank that lady. Appliances differ by country. I never had a coffee machine at home, for example.
After living a few years in the states, I always wondered how some folks are completely unaware of their own stupidity.
i mean if u r that stupid ur mind ignores it
Cause they so Goddamn sure that they are right
That's because being stupid is like being dead. You feel nothing, only those around you suffer.
Because being unaware of your own stupidity is one of the hallmarks of being stupid.
The worst part about ignorance is that the less someone knows the less they realise how little they know.
7:50 - That reminds me of a Calvin&Hobbes comic where Calvin complains about it being too cold in the house, if they can't afford to heat it more his dad should get a better job, or they should just move to a warmer place - and when told to just put a sweater on, his response is along the lines of "You want me to go through THAT much effort?!?" 🤣
I made a american belive sweden have green water and we dont have electricity or phones😂
you should have said that even today there are dinos in sweden
We have green water in the UK. From all the raw, untreated shit the water companies pump into it and cause algae blooms. The government allow it.
Also Swedish water is very delicious and super pure!
As a New Zealander currently living in Australia... I like our healthcare for all, our education standards, our less extreme politics, our wages/salaries, 4 weeks paid leave pa, etc... 🇦🇺💙🇳🇿
Victorian here, spot on, glad you like Aus!
In my country we have 5 weeks paid leave since decades already.
Less extreme politics? Australia? You forgotten the covid years already?
As an American currently living in Colorado, I like our higher median income, free public education, our first and second amendment rights, and being able to communicate with the world because my native language is the Lingua franca, and our beautiful national parks.
@@utrapzab Falling for American propaganda are we? 🙄
American exceptionalism went from a duty to guide other nations to idiots yelling about the military and economy online.
Let's not talk about the "great" US military that cannot even help Ukraine to win a war against the literal arch enemy, the literal nemesis of the United States.
@@AriesT1 they havent been directly interfering with that war
White man's burden
@purpledye1351 allegedly.
This reminds me the time I was working in Germany. Im from Peru, half german. I met this american girl and she asked me were was I from. I told her I'm from Peru but moved out to Germany like 2 years ago. She was baffled, she asked me two questions, one right after the other: "Do you have roads in Peru?" and "How did you managed to escape to Germany?"
I was 100% sure she was trolling, so I tagged along with the joke and said: Oh, we dont have roads yet, but my friend Pedro has an Alpaca-taxi service, he gave me a hand to travel to the Mexico-US border. There I tricked the guards that I was lost and they let me into US soil without papers, thankfully. There I managed to grab a plane and came to Germany!
Not only she was dead serious before, she believed 100% of what I said as well...
When you reached US soil, the Alpaca didn't get food anymore for his job of carring you, like the us the waiters, hope you didn't forget to tip him some food.
2:42 the dude calling themself a "polish living in america for 5 generations"... We call those Plywood Poles here. But at least this one has good manners as of the original post :D
the only thing polish about them is their surname, and maybe not even that
Only that his Grand Grand Grand Grand parent were a pole 😂
I'd call them American lol.
Yeah, as an american, a lot of us have a superiority complex but don't know what any of the rest of the world is like. Its like living in the ocean and never seeing land yet believing you're 10x better than everyone and everything on land. Its absurd.
the world is just a webpage apart, nowdays!
I worked in the tourism-industry for 11 years, and all US-citizens I met were polite, well educated, and informed about our local habits and circumstances (Spain). They even managed to get the thing with health-assistance straight! (you know, when you NOT get billed thousends of euros for medical treatment).
Guess the d*shbags stay mostly at home (I wish I could say the same about the brits. Although most of them are quiet OK, normal and reasonable people, nobody can ruin your day like a british m*r*n).
Funny times!
@@user-my6qy2vc2tbut that would take effort
@@user-my6qy2vc2t yes but sadly most Americans do not use the web to learn they use it for entertainment
@@gibsalot you're probably right
Hilarious as Americans are, what makes it worse is that all of this was done with absolutely no irony whatsoever. They really believe this stuff. They also don't know what irony is, which is itself ironic.
how thick are you 💀 these are just random dumbasses online not every American is like this 💀
to quote Baldrick 'Is that like goldy or silvery?'
you have to see their confused looks, after they told you a joke and you laughing about it, as a German!
And the classic "European monuments are shit, like the Eiffel tower, just bad, can't compare to the statue of liberty !"
What do you mean the same guy made both ?
@@JustARandomMountain exactly
Because it can't????? One is a massive piece of common steel, the other one is green piece of art built on God given American stone.
@@burneracc2567 i'm sorry to break ur American Dream (if you can still believe in it 2024) but both the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty were a project of the French Engineer Gustave Eiffel
@@burneracc2567 oh my god I hope it was irony.... if not you need to google a thing or two mate.
About the Nationality thing. I watched a video earlier this week where Americans took a DNA test to find out their ancestry. I was flabbergasted when some people were shocked that they were #% EUROPEAN. I guess they have no idea that everyone, except Native Americans, were originally immigrants!
fun fact: most people here (Austria) don't see cups as absolute (american) measuremeants when in a recipe or convert them to grams. They just use "any" cup/glass/tupperware, and treat those recipes as relative measuremeants, so one cup of this, one cup of that just means the same amount of both, but doesn't mean any specific amount.
We use it only for the "famous" Becherkuchen(Cup Cake ...not the same as Cupcake) !😁
That was the original reason for Fanny Farmer writing recipes that way - everyone had a cup, even if they were too poor to have a measuring jug or a set of scales. It wasn't until much later that the volume of a Cup was standardised to half a US pint.
Same in Poland ;) If I remember correctly from an older book 1 cup of flour means 250 grams, but I will grab the biggest cup I own, and just measure all ingredients with the same one xd
Same here in the UK, just like my grandmother measured ingredients out for years. Sometimes I do it too.
Everyone is always going after the US for using the Imperial system, but in Canada we use °C for the weather, °F for baking, feet and inches for construction and height of a person, metric for distance and speed, pounds and ounces for weight of people, and grams for other situations, and lastly we use cups in baking. What actually is the alternative for cups anyways?
I have an internet friend from Ohio that asks me the weirdest questions about daily life in Finland. I have realized she thinks Finland is a third world country. 😑
It’s because of the Helsinki architecture 🥶🥶🥶
Finland's an amazing country. I'm from Scotland, would love to visit.
@@billster7424 Just curious, what do you mean by that? :D There's a lot of variety when it comes to architecture in Helsinki. A few houses are from as early as the 1700's (not many of them anymore), but there are ofc really modern apartment complexes being built all over the city continuously.
@@OneTrueScotsman I recommend visiting in the summer, less chance of slipping and falling ;D
Freeze dried Canadian here, I've actually thought about moving to Finland a couple times and am still considering it. It's not really that much different from northeast Canada (northern Quebec, the northern territories, northern Manitoba etc) from what I see for weather and environment. Muricans still think we all live in igloos and ride moose around and drink maple syrup, let alone think that arctic Canada is a barren unpopulated wasteland or Inuit live continuously in antiquity and don't have the internet or modern cities or anything like Iqaluit doesn't exist. Still wanna visit Finland one day and maybe move there though, I like the cold so it isn't a problem for me and I'm already learning Suomi anyways :)
Japan, Australia, New Zealand, British Virgin Islands, Indias, Pakistan, Jamaica, Ireland, Isle Of Mann, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia and Nepal (to mention a few) all drive on the left!!
You missed the uk
@@anonymouswhite352 Ah, probably because we live in the UK!! Lol!!
So when are they gonne change that?It must be right,because the most off the world drives on the right.😆
Sweden used to, but switched over in the 50s, I believe. Cyprus does. Actually, just checked, they only changed the side they drive on in 1967.
Can’t we find a more middle of the road solution?
A recent dig at Pompeii found a painting of a pizza on a wall from 2,000 years ago, obviously an American tourist left them the recipe 😂
Some years ago my wife and I were on the market square in Bruges, explaining to friends in English about the buildings. An American couple must have heard us speaking English and wondered if they could ask us something. No problem, of course, and then the man asked, “What time does this place close?” He must have thought he was in Disneyland!
Well, the normal reaction of American tourists to Dubrovnik's walls and city is; Is this a movie set? It looks so convincing! Also, a common question on the Plitvice Lakes; at what time do they close the water valves for the waterfalls?
Overheard similar in Leycock, England. US tourists couldn't fathom a place so old, thought it was fake, and got bored as it wasn't full of funfair rides.
Well when you come from a country where the only time you get to a walkable place is by going to an amusement park, you start to think that everywhere is a nonplace. Watch Not Just Bikes, he has some excellent videos about the Strong Towns charity that talk about his topic.
They actually thought an average Flemish city with some old buildings is a theme park....
While at a McDonald's in Virgin a local heard my accent and he said to me in his Virginians accent " I'm English". I asked what part of England he came from. He then explained his ancestors Came to North America in Colonial times. I then explained I had an Australian accent.
Well, at least your Englishness is comparable then.
Well, by his thinking, there’s a good chance you’re actually English too… 😂
Yanks always do that.
Like the plastic Paddies that had Irish Ancestors generations ago…. 😮
The Brits sent their religious nuts to america, and their criminals to australia. So far it seems australia is winning.
Americans play football with their hands. There, I said it.
The fact that someone from the USA created a dictionary to change the ortography because they wanted to be different to the british centuries ago
I heard the differences between british english and american english, at least the dropping of the "u"s in many words, can be traced back to print publications in America being paid by the letter instead of word, so leaving vowl out saved money.
@@BlinddragonsLair That is incorrect. That is an internet myth that has gained traction but is simply not true. There is no evidence that US newspapers ever charged by the letter.
The spelling differences are solely down to one man, Noah Webster. Webster was a staunch and evangelical republican and fervent supporter of the revolution. He also believed that education had been gatekept by the elites and upper classes of the mother country and used as a barrier to separate the common folk from the ruling classes.
He viewed the US as superior to all other civilisations that ever existed, including those of classical Greece and Rome...and he believed that a good way to emphasise that would be to change the language to purposefully separate his newly formed nation from its ties to the motherland. It was an entirely political motive. He thought that if the US had their own language that would help legitimise the new nation globally on the world stage
Normally living languages change over time, we all know this instinctively...yet Webster made his changes almost completely arbitrarily and NOT in line with common usage or consensus of the time at all. They were pretty much entirely fabrications of his own making...with some additions that were not prevalent in English i.e. a few Native American words, and some from other countries that had or had had some colonial presence i.e. France, Netherlands, Spain etc...and early immigrants...Jews/Irish/German etc...but generally, by far, made up as he saw fit. (which is why you get instances where things in the US are known as different things to the UK...like Coriander in the UK i.e. the herb...is known as Cilantro (the Spanish name for it) instead....stuff like that.
Those were then published in his 'blue-backed speller' books in 1783 and they were then used in classrooms for decades and decades...at least up to the 1960s in widespread usage, and still to this day in some schools.
So what he did, whilst arbitrary and for political reasons was arguably a positive thing...in that it in many ways democratized education and made learning to read and write easier by his simplifications...whether that was an actual intent or merely a happenstance is up for debate.
I've been to a couple of German Christmas markets, and they're brilliant.
The Germans really know how to do Christmas markets.
I feel embarrassed by UK Christmas markets though - which are just regular markets selling the same crap as ever, but with a token effort of Christmas decoration.
Unsurprising. The Germans invented the contemporary commercial Christmas.
@@orthodox-mp6hv German Christmas markets are almost more of a social thing than about buying presents though.
I work with a German and he likes to point out that in the UK most of the German Christmas Market stallholders all seem to speak perfect Romanian .
@@RevStickleback Especially the booth with spiced wine. "Glühwein". Hehe. And after that you go home by bus - if you can find the way still.
As an American I swear to god freedom doesn't exist. As a Puerto Rican I swear to god Spain exists. As a bilingual person, I swear to god we have to specify the area we're from when we speak Spanish because it will get incredibly confusing due to different slangs that are used. Spain Spanish also is fundamentally different, it is proper Spanish, and the Spanish spoken in Central and South America and Mexico is influenced by the native languages and cultures.
There is High Spanish, Catalan Spanish, Valenciano Spanish and Euskara - Basque Spanish.
@@Loki1815 ...the galicians woud get upset with you,buddy....
@@Loki1815High Spanish doesn't exist, Catalan/Valencian is a separate language, Euskera has nothing in common with the Spanish language, wtf you talking about?
@@Loki1815 i have never heard of any of these and i have spoken the language my whole life with others from different regions. I don't know if you're trying to sound smart with these terms, but I assure you that NOBODY refers to them. I am puerto rican and honduran, and both of those areas are WAAAY different with spanish. My puerto rican family speaks Guayanilla spanish, my honduran family speaks Tegucigalpa spanish. I know columbians, mexicans, spainyards, dominicans and el salvadorians. We all speak different spanish.
@@Loki1815 U are american, right? Like, there is Spanish(The language) and Spain (The country). Also, High spanish doesn't exist unless an Spanish get's high and in spain Gallego is also spoken
As a Swede i must say that this was an absolute comic goldmine, Thanks for the laugh of the day!
Hej mannen, jag är svensk också!
@@Testyman574jag är också svensk!
@@Brikiboi69 Supernajs!
@@Testyman574 Ja, det är nice.
@@Brikiboi69 aha
People in the US have such an odd interpretation of what "Freedom" is.
As John Cleese said, there is no American English, there is English and poorly spelt and punctuated English.
*spelled
@@joxidearmageddonator882 you just proved him right
@@dpterminusreal same mantra hammered on English lessons: Learn the tables, Learn the tables, Learn the tables
@@joxidearmageddonator882 American spotted right on point
Sorry, but Cleese is wrong on that. American English is definitely a dialect of English. That's the same as saying that Brazilian Portuguese is just bad Portuguese, or the same to Spanish and etc.
My son was at an American university -he’s English-and was talking to his friends when a girl asked him where he was from.He replied England,she went on to say ‘which state is that in?’
I hope he was able to transfer to a better university.
I home you replied the United kingdom of great britian and Northern Ireland. To give it its proper title.
@@patrickporter1864honestly, I hate it here, it doesn’t deserve that title.
At least it isn’t the USA…
TBF, there is a tiny village called England in Arkansas.
I’m a Brit have lived in thr states a few times for work. Let me say this very clearly Americans come in 1 of 3 flavours.
1, normal people on par with Europeans, can handle their drink, understand complex and nuanced conversations. (This is the minority)
2, people who are a bit slow don’t understand the massive levels of complexity, but, have a want to understand lust to learn and can see that American despite its good features are clearly behind the ball massively. They can also on average handle their drink (This is half of the majority)
3, people who are literally a walking international incident waiting to happen, they are literally only comparable to people like the current rulers of Afghanistan in there backwards understanding of the world and believe America is some kind of god like entity which makes them immune from consequences. Also CANT HANDLE THEIR DRINK TO SAVE THEIR LIFE, they will get drunk and will cause international incident. If they know they can’t handle their drink and thus don’t drink, they can also cause an international incident for reporting you as drunk if you are invited to drink with foreign delegates at function and get drunk they will report you to your boss, not understanding that turning down the drink might have been cultural offensive and caused you to cause a international incident. (This is the other half of the majority)
This has been my experience with Americans
Canadian here, we use meters and kilograms
While the Goverment doesn’t record it - we use feet and pounds when refering to people
Cooking is… Well, we use both metric (grams) and imperial measurements (cups) for recipes.
Also the only time we use Fahrenheit is when the oven uses it (Mine doesn’t)
"We should not allow dual citizenship, cause the nature of our country is freedom!" How can someone actually think that way and not run head forward straight into a wall????
By being American
who says they don't? their walls are just so thin that they walk right through
@@Kyonarimight not even be developed enough to have walls
Actually, you do have to denounce your citizenship to get into the US, at least you did in the 60s.
They obviously have already banged their head!
Its also embarrassing how many Americans think Born in the USA is a patriotic song
what is it about?
@Lucy-ny4gs It's about someone who was born in a shithole town with a bad upbringing, being set off to the Vietnam War, how pointless the war was and ultimately ended up with high unemployment and imprisonment rates were among returning veterans. The name and chorus of the song are completely ironic
@@jakereynolds8897 oh never knew that! thanks
@Lucy-ny4gs No problem, happy to help. Yeah its definitely gone down as one of the most commonly misunderstood songs, even though the lyrics aren't subtle about their message. I think people just hear Born in the USA and automatically assume its patriotic without really pay attention to the rest of the song lmao
I think the song was also used in a Ronald Reagan election campaign and Bruice Springsteen asked them to stop using it
@@Lucy-ny4gs Nice.
I'm kinda sorry for these kinds of US citizens. Imagine growing up thinking that you're the biggest, greatest, in the centre of the world, then realise that half the world belonged (although very shamefully) to the UK and France half a century ago, nobody uses the metric system outside of the USA and countries like Japan and Germany are rapidly catching up with their economies, while half the world is laughing at you behind your back AND to your face.
About the post about constitutional rights.... do people seem to forget that the largest democracy and the longest written constitution is an ASIAN country? Personally, Americans shouldn't really talk about rights when they don't even have proper gun control and take away reproductive rights from women.
The USA is actually a very poor place to live. The leading cause of bankruptcy is medical debt and the leading cause of homelessness is bankruptcy caused by medical debt. The USA is the only country in the world where the leading cause of death for children is being shot. As an Australian on a disability pension I receive the equivalent of $500us per week and pay $250 to rent a 3 bedroom house on a quarter acre block less than 2 minutes walk from a large shopping centre. 50% of my rent is subsidised along with 20% of my utility bills. I can catch a bus at the end of my street and be in the city centre in less than 15 minutes or drive for one hour. My weekly shopping bill is $75, but I do get a lot of junk I don't need. All my medical treatments are free and the longest I have had to wait for any procedure is 3 months. Normal general practitioner visits are the day after I book an appointment online. 90% of the food consumed in Australia is grown in Australia, where over 90% of the food consumed in the USA comes from other countries, mostly South American. I have a far better quality of life than the overwhelming majority of Americans. I don't have any worries about walking anywhere in my city at any time of the day or night. Yes, I am glad that I was lucky enough to have been born in Australia because if I was born in the USA, I would be dead.
You could have made a good point with that presentation, if you hadn't started off with some stupidly ridiculous bullshit.
The leading cause of bankruptcy is not medical debt; it is irresponsible financial management.
The leading cause of homelessness is not bankruptcy due to medical debt; homelessness rarely has anything to do with bankruptcy.
The leading cause of death among children is accidents, not being shot.
If you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, get off the internet and go talk to your sheep.
Communist!!!!! :))))
"America is just so advanced" *accidentally breaks wall*
unless you punch a part of the wall without a stud it can break, but if not then you're punching litteral wood planks and carbon. imagine being mad Americans use abundant resources like the rest of the modern world to build homes, concrete and bricks are huge greenhouse emitters and leach chemicals into the soil.
American walls are like literally made out of paper. If you would punch a wall in europe you would break youre hand
i just realised that atleast 70% of houses in small town and sometimes cities here (in the Netherlands) are older than america itself, which is crazy dude. even the house i currently live in was made in 1687, sure its been renovated twice bc of some damage before and WWII, but its completely livable 💀
Ah yes, a country so advanced, that their power outlets struggle to properly operate a simple electric kettle, and have to use microwaves to boil water instead.
There is an explanation for the Polish guy. He's a vampire that originally lived in Poland, but moved to America and has lived there for the past 5 generations. And because he never used Polish for all that time, he forgot the language.
It would make more sense if the vampire was of Romanian origin but nevertheless a plausible explanation.
@@flitsertheo Bram Stoker set his story in Transylvania, which was a largely German-speaking province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time he wrote the book.
its easy to unlearn polish, that had so many unnessessary lettters.
@@flitsertheo Vampires originante from slavic mythology tho.
This is why I say the educational system in America is outdated…
Remember that one teacher that said his students couldn’t read or write?
Oh and pretty much college is enough to get you in debt.....
@@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza I’m grateful I’m staying in Brazil (where I was born) since Radiology has made a variety of people here financially stable.
it’s common, my friend went to america for an exchange and they’re still learning maths we learnt in like year 8. we are in year 13th now (9 grade/college for u)
@@josephrinnesot I'm glad to hear, normally Americans tend to ridicule Brazil for a few things, there can be some negatives but so is America, I'm glad to hear my friend, I wish you the best and hope to visit Brazil, I am from Russia and to the end, always in cooperation
To be fair almost all countrys in the world net to update their school systum. Like i hate i was never taught about alot of stuff that could help you when you move out off your parents place. They say that your being taught to help you when you grow up but that's bullshit!
American living in Germany -
It isn't just ignorance toward the rest of the world. There is much ignorance of areas of the US against other areas.
When I was much younger, 2around 2000, 20 year old from Northern California who had to go to Tennessee. No big deal. The guy thought that he would have to fly to St. Louis and then have to take horse and buggy into Tennessee. His reason? The Southern US was destroyed in the civil war and he thought never rebuilt. So he believed it had no airports, no cars, no paved roads, no electricity. Every country has its own load of stupid.
I have never seen/heard an US-American try to actually pronounce a foreign word correctly, so the last one is particularly rich