Okay, yeah, that’s cute.
Adults basically look like the punk rocker version of a hairless rat terrier to me. 
I get folks who ask what breed my dogs are, then can’t seem to proccess the name when told.
“Shiba Inu”
“Gesundheit! Hahaha. What was that again?”
“Shiba Inu. Think ‘Queen of Sheeba.’”
“I’ll never remember that. But my how cute they are…”
It’s not like it’s a Xolo or a PBGV. I guess any name more than three syllables and/or is not English is too hard to pronounce or remember.
I shocked a guy who was out walking his Shiba one day - I just said what a nice Shiba he had, and he couldn’t believe I knew the breed. I had totell him that I’m an obedience instructor and trainer, and have seen dozens pass through my classes.
I guess he thought he had the only one around. But, they are such a distinctive breed, once you know them, you’ll never mistake them!
Yeah. Guy I knew had a Shiba. Pretty dog. Dumb as a brick, though.
Old Englanders “drop Rs” too; heck, it’s because of old Old Englanders that New Englanders took it up.
What with all the pedanticism flying around, might as well point out that you missed two. In bold below:
Furthermore, “America is a large country”, not “AmericaRis a lahge country”.
You non-rhotic mothaRfuckaRs.
But tasty!
You’d think with all the wankers on the Internet, you’d see “masturbate” spelled correctly once in a while.
Actually, unless I am mistaken, it should be Chiba where they come from in Japan - so the sound would be a hard ‘ch’ as in ‘chips’…
I usually am quick to find humour, but I can’t for the life of me work out why this is so funny…can anyone explain?
Well, he says “chicken” a whole lot. And he has a PowerPoint presentation to go with it.
Pretty self-explanatory, really.
I just have a plane olde dawg.
On the subject of dogs, there is no such breed as a rockwieler.
In other news, a Goodyear store near my house has had a sign in their window for several years announcing they have employment opurtunities available. :rolleyes:
There’s a store over on the highway with a sign in 16-inch-tall red neon proclaiming, “SPA’S AND STOVES.” I want to shoot out that apostrophe every time I pass by.
Not too long ago there was a pottery place having a GRAN OPPENING SALE. It went on for months and months.
I dunno. I thought it was hilarious. Then again, loving non-sensical and non-sequitor humor helps. If you want to get analytical about it, there’s the disconnect between the audience’s expectations (a typical, boring Powerpoint presentation) and what actually happens. Add to that the whole bizarre dada nature of the presentation and the incongruity of the situation makes it funny (to me, at any rate). If you want to get even more analytic about it, I suppose you could say, nobody gives a shit about these Powerpoint presentations anyway, nobody pays any attention, the actual facts presented are largely irrelevant and quickly forgotten, so you may as well just replace everything with the word “chicken,” because that’s as much practical effect they’ll have on the audience.
But that last point may be stretching it a little, although that really is the first thing I thought of when I watched the video.
tdn, no, I mean Britishers - 99% of those around me do it, and I’ve heard many a Scot make the same error.
Well, no. Our accent dictates the dropping of trailing Rs. That’s acceptable - it’s our accent. But the non-rhotic intrusive R adds an R sound where none exists. Thus “lahge” is correct pronunciation. And “fuckahs” is also correct. But “AmericaRis” is incorrect. (The “mothaR” bit was deliberately incorrect on my part as it was a joke.) I’m fighting a losing battle though, as the people who do it don’t realise they do it: I didn’t realise I did it until I had speech classes. I really notice it back here now though, as I was previously living in a rhotic country for a long time.
And now my next source of pain: Newsreaders saying “there are a number of people…” No, you tool, there is a number of people.
I’m gonna save time, syllables and my local accent with lie-bree and feb-ree, thank you very much. Oh, and cuttle-ree, too.
Wow. Just how many people have to do it before it goes from ‘wrong’ to ‘part of a native accent’?
These are interesting news… 
I realize that we are now in the midst of making fun of other posters/nitpicking, but may I just say that lately ‘cemetary’ is making me feel quite stabby?
No, it’s not “an historical event occurred in an hotel”, it’s “a historical event occurred in a hotel.”
“h” is a consonant, not a vowel, except when it’s silent. Then you default to the next letter, and if that is a vowel, then you can go “an” all you like. And those are not, I repeat, NOT silent “h’s”. Honest and honour have silent “h’s”, 'istorical and 'otel don’t.
In my 'umble opinion, of course.
Fuckers.
Wow. I thought you were just joking around; I didn’t realize you seriously thought this was “incorrect”.
Like GorillaMan says, why isn’t “intrusive R” (a pretty much completely phonologically predictable phenomenon) just as much an acceptable accent feature as “dropping Rs” (or anything else, for that matter)?
Or, to put it another way: “adds an R sound where none exists”. What do you mean “where none exists”? One exists precisely if you pronounce it. Sure, it won’t exist in other accents, it won’t have existed historically, it won’t be reflected in the spelling in the straightforward way, but why should any of this concern you? Or should I take you to task on your non-rhoticity for “removing an R sound where one exists”, which would similarly be in conflict with other accents, history, and straightforward interpretation of spelling? The asymmetry in your perspective is interesting.
Maybe you have to have sat through a lot of scientific/powerpoint presentations; having done so, it’s a hoot (at least to me, and pretty much everyone in my university department I’ve shown it to agrees). It’s a spoof, that’s about it; just a very well-observed one. The bit where someone asks “chicken, chicken chicken; chicken chicken?” and he goes to the relevant slide and starts re-explaining is just genius.
Edit: Plus, he says “chicken” a lot.