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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 12:27 AM
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English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?!


So I decided to improve my Firefox's vocabulary by installing a https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3">dictionary add-on. I was expecting maybe two versions, but not five!

• English (Australian)
• English (British)
• English (Canadian)
• English (South African)
• English (US)

I really think that if they are going to break it down this finely, then US English should be broken into at least five dialects.

Also odd that there are only two Spanish dicts:
Español (Argentina)
Spanish (Spain)

No Mexican Spanish dictionary?
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some guy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 12:32 AM
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1. What?
:P
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 12:39 AM
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2. Say "what" again! Say "what" again. I dare you! I double-dare you, motherfucker!
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some guy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 12:42 AM
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3. Huh?
:7
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 12:45 AM
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4. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides....
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some guy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 12:48 AM
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7. by
Snakes on a Mother Fuckin' Plane - at least, that's what I've something I've been told. :)
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 12:48 AM
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5. ...
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 01:00 AM
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9. Ya know what they call a "Quarter Pounder with Cheese" in the Undying Lands?
Sam: They don't call it "Quarter Pounder with Cheese?"

Frodo: Nah, they got Feanorian weights. They wouldn't know what the fuck a "Quarter Pound" is.

Sam: So whadda they call it?

Frodo: "Valar with Cheese".
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 12:48 AM
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6. My browser speaks English
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 12:59 AM
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8. American and Canadian?
They're not that dissimilar, just minor variations in pronunciation and spelling. Odd that they'd be considered separate dialects. Now Brazilian and Portuguese sound like two entirely different languages, and there are so many different variants of Spanish, I don't know where to begin.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 01:01 AM
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10. Eh?
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 01:08 AM
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13. they are very different
Lots of extra Us... but not on ALL words. As well as zeds everywhere
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 01:04 AM
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11. You give him $1500 and I shoot the motherfucker on general principal.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 01:05 AM
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12. It's not a fine as you think
Canada and US english is very different.
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