Cruise Ship Sightings

[wagegoth]

AL: Oh my God! Another American! How are you? Where are you from?
Me: Oh, haha, I'm not actually American, I'm from Great Britain.
AL: Oooooohh I see. Well, you're English is really good! Well done! I can understand what you're saying and everything!
Me: Uhhh...thanks.

At the beginning of the Graham Norton show on BBCAmerica, there's an announcement explaining how to run closed captioning on your TV so that Americans will understand the proceedings.

[Mr Hero]

There are even places where English completely disappears.
In America they haven't used it for years!

[Ironclad Alibi]

Correction, we all know you haven't experienced Shakespeare until you've read Hamlet in the original Klingon.

Do you have a link for that?

[Jay 2K Winger]

Do you have a link for that?

http://www.kli.org/stuff/Hamlet.html

[arminius58]

I feel I should apologize for most of America for that amount of stupid the woman just heaped on you, but I have a sad feeling most of them would not understand the reason for the apology.

[Sheldonrs]

There are even places where English completely disappears.
In America they haven't used it for years!

My Fair lady. :-)

[protege]

There are even places where English completely disappears.

Yep, places like West Virginia, Alabama....

Is it just me, or would anyone else...have no problems with fitting unruly passengers with a pair of concrete slippers, and then tossing them over the side?

[Magpie]

Is it just me, or would anyone else...have no problems with fitting unruly passengers with a pair of concrete slippers, and then tossing them over the side?

protege, that is a horrible thing to suggest and I'm ashamed of you. Don't you know how to deal with things efficiently? It's far less effort to just wrap some heavy chains around them before tossing them in.

[protege]

Don't you know how to deal with things efficiently? It's far less effort to just wrap some heavy chains around them before tossing them in.

Actually I do. But most cruise-ship operators would probably hate to clean up the mess from a shotgun blast to the head Also, I'd hate to waste chain, and concrete is usually cheaper...

[PepperElf]

Me: Oh, haha, I'm not actually American, I'm from Great Britain.
AL: Oooooohh I see. Well, you're English is really good! Well done! I can understand what you're saying and everything!

People from Great Britain speak English? I thought only Americans did!
(just kidding obviously)

[Mytical]

Americans don't speak English. We speak American (well some of us at least). Which due to the fact that people from all over the world are here can have every accent known to man, and some that we just made up (ebonics anybody?). Sometimes I have to translate in my own house! My dad chews tobacco and sometimes has a thick 'southern' accent. I am one of the few who understand him, even my mom just sits there with a look. I look on the bright side..maybe eventually it will all mesh to one language that nobody under..I mean that everybody understands.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Is it just me, or would anyone else...have no problems with fitting unruly passengers with a pair of concrete slippers, and then tossing them over the side?

People do disappear from cruise ships every now and then. I wonder if they were SCs beforehand?