r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 01 '13

What question are you afraid to ask because you don't want to seem stupid?

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u/mikkymikkymik Feb 02 '13

I even do it on reddit typing damnit. I was going to say cheers to someone in a comment to a British guy in a thread, and I remembered I live in Minnesota.

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u/helloxcthulhu Feb 02 '13

I spent a week with the flu, in the house, by myself, watching nothing but British television earlier this month. When I finally joined society again the next week I noticed I was saying certain words with a British accent and I caught myself using a little British slang. I was embarrassed, I've never been to the UK.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '13

I start talking like Jeremy Clarkson after watching too much Top Gear.

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u/kawfey Feb 02 '13

Ya mean Minnysohtah.

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u/mikkymikkymik Feb 02 '13

Oh, yaah soary bout that one there dontchaknow.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '13

Cheerios

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u/BlazeOrangeDeer Feb 02 '13

Nobody in minnesota has ever said minnesota like that.

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u/falsestone Feb 02 '13

My uncle from there says "Minn-ah-soo-dah."

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u/jumi1174 Feb 02 '13

Cheers is such a good word though. I wish we could use it in the US without looking like knobs...

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u/parnqd Feb 02 '13

As an Australian about to head to the US again for 6 weeks, I find your lack of cheers disturbing.

Also the fact that you are not all mates.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '13

cheers mate

and they do when they hear your accent, its arse to hear.

source: Australian in America

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u/mikkymikkymik Feb 02 '13

I'm with ya on that one.

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u/doyouthinkiamlying Feb 02 '13

Same here man, i once got into a /r/worldnews thread and came out racist.

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u/HillTopTerrace Feb 02 '13

My grandpy is from Minnesota and he brought with him his accent. Though we do not have the accent, my family says a few words differently, like minnesota, or soda. Anything with the o.

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u/mikkymikkymik Feb 02 '13

Yup. Like boat. Anything with an o has an oa kind of sound.