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Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Seems to have deliberately taken the opposite path of anything British:

Drive on the wrong side of the road
The light and power switches are upside down
Weights & measures. Imperial? Ha!
Screw your English dictionary. Ima put z's everywhere, drop the letter u and randomly pronounce words like buoy so you think there's an animal in the water over there

It kinda makes me laugh to think about it as just anti-British 🤣

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

we invented the modern car, y’all are driving on the wrong side of the road
a switch is a switch, if you don’t like the direction it goes, just flip it over and put the cover back on, half the switches in my house go one way, and the other go the opposite way, some of them are even sideways.
y’all sank the ship that had the US copy of the metric standard on it, and also invented the imperial system in the first place.
if you look at the entomology, the US largely uses the original English pronunciation of things, it’s the British who have slowly changed their pronunciation over the centuries. We did have a guy who intentionally changed a bunch of the spelling, you are right about that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

y’all

I'm not British. I just inherited mostly their system.

TBH, i laugh about both.

Eg the english language is a joke. Laugh? Larf? Laff?.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

White socks and how Americans eat with their knife and fork.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

How do Americans eat with their knifes and forks?

Edit: Apparently my fellow Americans put the knife down after cutting and switch the fork to the hand that was holding the knife. I'm not sure I've ever noticed this. I always use my right(dominant) hand to cut with but then I just use the fork in my left to eat the food with. I know I'm an odd duck but I'm baffled by the utensil boogaloo that seems to be going on. Now I'm going to have to watch people around me eat. I'll report back in a few weeks.

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