• kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    when i was a kid i flatly refused to believe that the UK existed

    mainly

    1. queens were just things in fairy tales

    2. harry potter is fiction and it was based there so obviously everything in it is fiction

    3. i thought the accent sounded stupid and clearly made up lmao

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      i thought the accent sounded stupid and clearly made up lmao

      large parts of the posh southern english accent were just made up because someone thought they sounded cool. for example tomahto was literally just some dumbass doing a silly voice and it caught on.

      the English from the north are worth feeling sorry for in this respect because they speak english the way it was always spoken and get made fun of by people who started randomly changing the way they speak for the stupidest reasons imaginable.

      At one point macarone was slang for fashionable in London because someone was in Italy heard the word and thought it sounded cool without knowing what it meant

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        2 years ago

        At one point macarone was slang for fashionable in London because someone was in Italy heard the word and thought it sounded cool without knowing what it meant

        The song Yankee Doodle explicitly dunks on this sort of person

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          it's more complicated than that the song Yankee Doodle dunks on Americans for calling things macarone that the singer deems uncool.

          both the song and the people it's making fun of use macarone to mean fashionable

    • UlyssesT
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      18 days ago

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