Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-30602727-20160202181457/@comment-53539-20160221195221

@Fanty; I remember on "Talk like a pirate day" I refused to write like a pirate in forum posts and when asked why I replied "because I'm not from the west country". The so-called "Pirate talk" as made popular by Disney's Treasure Island, is based on a Bristol accent in the west country of England. I have a great uncle from Devon area who has a devonshire accent, "who sounds like pirate", but he has never been to sea and was a soldier and a farmer in his lifetime.

I was from Southend-oon-sea which is the otherside of the country. My grandfather left Devon to marry my grandmother who was from London. My father has no trace of any form of London or Essex or Devon accent, in fact I myself have a "british accent", but there no way of identifying which area of Britain I'm from.

Still the whole "Pirate talk" issue reminds me a lot of how few outside the UK know much of the accents of the UK. Also... Amazing as it sounds, I don't like tea or crumpets, I drink Hot chocolate. Everyone in the UK also finds words like "Smashing" strange to say, yet the Stereotype posh British swear portrays use saying it all the time. Along with a host of other words... Lets just say you'll get strange expressions if you try and peak "British" to a British person.

There are also some who mock Americans because... Well for all the mockery of the way we talk... English kinda came from England... ^_^'

Oh... And explaining that English isn't the only language native to the UK is also funny.

Stereotypes either way give strange portrayals of those form a country.