What did you watch as a kid?

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These beings only dislike the British english. Not the Australian. Nor American or Canadian or the other regional English forms. Particularly the form of english with unnatural excess of the letter "u" and similar.

Much of the dislike stems from the senselessly complex spelling system (complex spelling without benefit, mind you. No complaint over having a decent level of spelling control.)
The core of the dislike comes from the typical Norwegian English teachers. They try forcing the most despicable and formal form of British English on all students, while never being particularly good at getting pronunciation right. All they do get is the words and the accent.
But then, the style is fairly common in all Norwegian foreign language teachings. They try teaching students to speak and write languages fluently, stressing complex grammar, rather than teaching them how to be able to get around in the countries those languages are spoken.
If these beings should pick an interesting form of English, it would be Texan English. Nigh on impossible to understand when spoken properly, but still interesting.

These beings have not seen "coronation street" so they do not know how that is spoken.
By the way, nice to see an argument again.

Could you please explain what you mean by the unnatural excess of the letter 'u' and similar and also complex spelling? Words are spelled as they're spelled and that's that...isn't it? When they were attempting to teach me German and French, it was the formal language they taught, so I'm confuddled about that too!

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If you've ever seen 'Coronation Street' then that would be the closest to my accent on British TV.

For you, 'thul beings, though I'm not sure if it's a good example or not. I just enjoyed the fact that they brought up cricket - I was obsessed by it when I was growing up!

Thanks Farseer!

Anytime...unless it's a bunch of we Aussies wanting to band together against you, Ashes-like. I'd not be able to withstand such a pull of the natural order of things. In all else, my sword is yours.

Interesting that you mention the stressing of complex grammar etc, 'thul. I was chatting with a teacher from New Zealand the other day (she is over here in Australia for a few months to see how we do things in our education system) and she complained quite passionately about just how much importance we place on grammar within our curriculum. She just couldn't understand it, and just couldn't see its function. Not only that, she then informed me that grammar had been thrown out of the NZ curriculum many, many years ago!

The 'thul beings speaking Texan English...now I'd like to hear that!! That's made me think of Walker, Texas Ranger, a TV show that came out when I was a young adult...but I did watch plenty of other Chuck Norris things when I was growing up.

I don't do cricket, don't even understand it so I'll leave that one to you when the time comes. I shan't be getting involved. I'll have my sword ready though for other matters as and when they arise