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Two nations divided by a common language
Do you think you are sometimes misunderstood, could it be the language difference, even when we are speaking the same language? This my latest moto vlog may ...
Good afternoon, my friend SGT John " Mac " McConnell. I was raised by British parents in Philadelphia and in a nearby suburb. They demonstrated respect for all and were not biased at all. We lived in a suburb full of USA parents who tended to be biased by faith and skin color. Most were Roman catholic in that neighborhood and had little appreciation for protestants or agnostics like my family was.
The video is lampooning the fact that USA English is unique to this nation and is similar but decidedly different in common vernacular from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK and virtually everywhere else they speak "English" :-)
Two nations divided by a common language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T-nq03XJ1U
FYI PO1 William "Chip" Nagel PO1 H Gene Lawrence MSgt David Hoffman MSG (Join to see) SGT Mark Anderson SGT Mark Rhodes SGT Jim Arnold SSgt Terry P. Maj Robert Thornton SFC (Join to see) SGT Steve McFarland Col Carl Whicker MSG Andrew White Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Sgt (Join to see) COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC (Join to see)
The video is lampooning the fact that USA English is unique to this nation and is similar but decidedly different in common vernacular from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK and virtually everywhere else they speak "English" :-)
Two nations divided by a common language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T-nq03XJ1U
FYI PO1 William "Chip" Nagel PO1 H Gene Lawrence MSgt David Hoffman MSG (Join to see) SGT Mark Anderson SGT Mark Rhodes SGT Jim Arnold SSgt Terry P. Maj Robert Thornton SFC (Join to see) SGT Steve McFarland Col Carl Whicker MSG Andrew White Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Sgt (Join to see) COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC (Join to see)
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