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**MyMidnightSun** · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:13 pm Post subject: En Lille Smule af Kultur ...

Okay, now I have your attention!

Last night we had an American family in the restaurant, and it made me even more aware of the cultural differences between countries these days.

So I thought that I'd like to find out all the little funny things about your culture, whether you be American, German, Filipino, Italian, Mexican, Australiam (YAY!) or British.

So here's a place to ask those questions you were too embarrassed to ask before.

Here are some for starters:

In America, do you pronounce it 'carmel' or 'caramel'?

(btw in case you are wondering, that's Danish up there, in the subject box. Yep, I'm a smartie. I learnt how to use google translate!)
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DiamondsAreForever · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:17 pm Post subject: Re: En Lille Smule af Kultur ...

**MyMidnightSun** · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject:

Well the family last night was saying carmel, and I'm thinking "CA-RA-MEL! CARAMEL!" It was really bugging me. Because there's an 'a' in there which they are taking out.

haha it was funny too - they asked for ketchup and Deb was like, no sorry we only have tomato sauce!
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**Molly** · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject:

^^ I wish the US could just hop on board with the rest of the world on some things (such as football, tomato sauce, and the metric system [conversions are murder!]).

I say carmel. It probably just depends on the person's background and where they're from. Kind of like how some people pronounce aunt like "ahnt" and others "ant."

What does "En Lille Smule af Kultur" mean, anyway?
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**MyMidnightSun** · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject:

hahaha...umm...I forget, hold on, I'll just go ask my friend... Laughing

A Little Bit of Culture.

ooo do you say tom - a - to or tom -ar - to?

I understand what you mean about the whole depends what area you are from thing. Don't most southerners tend to say 'ant'???

Or is that a stereotype we place on Americans?
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**Molly** · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject:

I say tom-ay-to. Tom-ar-to? I've never heard that. Is that how it's said in AUS?

Most of the ones I know say "ant," but from what I can tell of movies/TV and some kids I went to school with, black people in the South tend to say "ahnt." (My knowledge of people using the word "aunt" is limited to Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi, though, so that leaves out several other states full of people that might speak differently.)

**ManiacsRose** · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:46 pm Post subject:

I am from America and I can tell you some things...Tomato or ToMAto. It really matters how you were raised and the section of the US, which is rather annoying by the way. Some people write Tomatoe ....but rarely.

Carmel and Caramel....that actually is pretty different for everyone. It's not what section you are from ...it's just whichever one you say. I say Carmel, I got yelled at once in MAINE for saying it..and I thought that's how most North-easterners said it.

People in the south do say Ant instead of Aunt. A lot of people say Ant instead of Aunt and that bugs me mucho. It's not a stereotype. And the whole 'aint' thing...well that's everywhere, at least on the east coast.

dazzle_me · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject:

ppl also say ant for aunt in indiana.
i'll never forget that because of this experience, haha:

teacher: so did [my guide areound the school] tell you she's gonna be an ant?
me: (thinking of the animal) uhm no she didn't....
the girl who's guiding me through the school: *looks at me weirdly* (coz she had told me)

*10 minutes later*
me: oh, omg! you're gonna be an aunt...of course you are. i thought of the animal the entire time and thought your teacher was trying to be funny or sth!
girl: lolz

oh and we do listen to some country music. not everyone, but some people do. mostly the "light" country stuff that sounds more like pop though: dixie chicks, shania twain, leann rimes, ...
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lambinthemeadow · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject:

I learned from Jane that guys in Colombia don't wear sandals with shorts or jeans.. That's an American thing. hehe

My friends make fun of me (they are from the LP, I'm from the UP) about how I say "coat" and "bag" because I drag out the long vowels more than I should.

Otherwise, I say ta-may-to and car-mel. haha
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**Molly** · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject:

^^ Do people in Michigan and Wisconsin (or maybe it's just in the latter) really say "Don'tcha know" a lot? Like the mom in Bobby's World (remember that cartoon?!) and that one guy in Hannah Montana?
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**ManiacsRose** · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:44 pm Post subject:

My great uncle lives in Michigan and he doesn't say 'dontcha know'.

**MyMidnightSun** · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:55 am Post subject:

dazzle_me · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:09 pm Post subject:

haha i ahve a great question, since we're talking about the pronounciation of words: how do you guys pronounce "cullen" ?
personally, i say it a bit like collin, with the o sounding american, more like an a.
and the e sounds much like an i. or a short ee. yeah, you know.
i've heard the actors pronounce it very differently though...a bit like cullun, with a very "deep" e that sounds more like the u in "urgh" and a deep u also, like a short oo.
another version i've heard was actually "culln", leaving the e out entirely.
so how do you all say it?
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**MyMidnightSun** · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:33 pm Post subject:

haha I actually noticed Elizabeth Reeser did that. She said 'Culln', I think it was, and I was all NO! NO! It's Cullen! Like culling but drop the g and subsitute the i for an e!

You sort of merge the e and the n into one.
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**Molly** · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:11 pm Post subject:

Cull-in is how I say it.

Culln just sounds so...silly Rolling Eyes

Is it really that hard to make the word two syllables?
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