Is American English lazy English?

I  am a pure idiot! well, i did something wrong, you teased me ... i went on , then you went on teasing me instead of warning...

Now give me a honest advice MrP ; how can i live with this shame? and please don't tease this time...

MrPedantic wrote:

Oh yes, use "and stuff" all the time. Use it for "etc.", or when you can't think of anything else to say, e.g. MrP: "Well, um, you know, er, not really. Just, um, watched tv and stuff."

That's interesting. I thought the expression "and stuff" was only used in American English. There's an animated series in which half of what the characters say is just:
"Dude, chicks (for "girls"), like (used like a comma), and stuff /or something (at the end of a sentence), damn, cool, this is gonna be cool, this sucks, Immuna (for "I'm going to"), and various swear words."

That cartoon is a kind of "Course in Modern American English Usage". Merve, if you change your mind and want to perfect your American English, that's a good course. If you want to switch to British English, well, I don't know what to recommend. But maybe you could take Stewie Griffin as a model to imitate (Stewie from "Family Guy").
 

Unless you get the accent down perfectly, it's unlikely that anyone will even be able to tell which dialect of English you learned. For example, Japanese speakers cannot make the vowel distinctions between General American and RP, nor can they pronounce their final r's, so they sound "British" (RP) no matter whether they tried to learn General American, or RP, or Scottish English, or any other variety of English. But...their Japanese accent is stronger than their "RP" accent, so they still just sound like they're speaking Japanese-English. I'm serious about this.

So, to those of you that think that you're going to end up sounding like you're speaking with a British accent, or a North American accent, you're not...without long dialect coaching and accent reduction.

An interesting thing that I've discovered: If you do manage to get a near native sounding accent, then you might as well learn the opposite accent of the country you plan on visiting. So, if you're going to visit the States, then learn RP. If your accent is fairly good, you *will* be mistaken for an Englishwoman.

>> i am learning English at an American College for 11 years ...In 2003 summer i was in Florida, they-Americans- could not realize i am American or not... <<

Well, then, if you did manage to perfect your accent, then why on earth would you want to change your accent, and come up with a bizarre, trans-Atlantic accent? Stick with what you can do well. That's quite an achievement and you should be proud of yourself.

If  I had to reply I would be brief and precise , that British English, is the back bone of every English ain the world followed by the African's, but the American English, is not in the account of this competion , Americans have spoilt english language as well as they have spoilt the world peace, and converted athe globe into a place of fear bloodshes, and attrocities .

athank you for understanding

hatim mohammad

sudanese