> We've just watched few episodes from "Stephen Fry in America" > and my wife asked how come Fry being the Brit was so easily > communicating with his American hosts. To which I replied > that the differences between British English and American > English are there, but they are not *that* big and definitely > all the fuss around this is significantly bigger than its reason. >
Perhaps we only think we understand each other... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1ksngBjmWA When talkies first arrived in Britain they had to be subtitled so that the British people could understand the Americans. Familiarity means we no longer need the subtitles, but even though we understand each other's words we don't always know what the other is talking about... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
