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How do you feel abotu American character using British spellings and turns of phrase

Well that's scientifically proven to make you 100% classier.

who cares? i'm american and i sometimes use british spellings/phrases. mostly cause i talk to a lot of british people, but nobody like side-eyes me for it or anything.

then why the fuck can't it work the other way around

Spoilers: Yes we do. We're just too polite and British to tell you that. It makes you look like a pretentious tool.

We be judgin'.

Chaps.

not worth it to say anything

it's very obnoxious and even offensive if it's obvious you're putting it on

...but why though? It's perfectly normal for people to pick up sayings and phrases from the people around them/people they talk to, consciously or not. For example, I'm from northern California, and it makes me laugh when my not!northern Californian friends have picked up "hella" and "like" from me, most of them not meaning to. One of my british professors has a particularly emphatic way of saying "Blast!" and it pops into my head sometimes.

I mean, deliberately injecting language-isms (British, Japanese fanspeak, whatever) in a way that feels fake and forced is obnoxious no matter what, but a little language bleedthrough/occasionally borrowing happens all the time.

Is it really that common for people to unconsciously acquire new vocabulary from people they spend relatively little time with when the rest of their life is spent around people who never say those things or speak that way? Especially when the former group is RP people on the internet, whose voices you never even hear most of the time? This has not happened to me.

Happens to me all the time. I'm like a speech quirk sponge. And I don't even realize I'm doing it until after.

I also do this because:

a) I used to be on a forum with a bunch of Brits, so it became habit

b) I play a character from the UK, so it's easier to stay consistent if I adopt the spelling quirks. The slang is bleed over.

Haven't encountered that as much because most rpers seem to be from the states, but Glee kids shouldn't be talking about pulling or gits or anything like that either.

Although I do have to snicker whenever male characters mention suspenders, as they're what you guys call garter belts over here. Got used to pants being used to mean trousers, though.

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