Simplifying English for The Americans | Michael McIntyre

the thing about Americans that I've thought about the languages that they speak they say they speak English but they've had to change it to make them understand it more go with me on this cuz I've thought it through they've changed some of the words so they've taken the English language but they've looked at some of it and they thought no no I think we need a little bit more explanation here okay that's my American accent so things like pavement so they can't work work with pavement so they've changed it to sidewalk they needed more of mission they needed to know where they were going to be walking I didn't think of a heydon't sidewalks I think there must been a period of time where they ran with the word pavement but they kept getting hit by cars the sidewalk now bear with me here John because I've thought this through been the word for bill in American waste paper basket they needed to know what not only what to put in it then he didn't know that not only it was paper but waste paper and then it goes into a basket it's not just any paper they kept throwing away fresh paper for a period introduce the word waste paper back it's like they need instructions glasses for your eyes they call them eyeglasses because they used to have glasses and they would put them on their thighs feet and they would say I can't see any better with the glasses no there are glasses well why didn't you call them are glasses there's a game called squash not in America racquetball what they were going to be playing with a racquetball and even then they get confused because there's no court they don't know where to go they just wonder through the street going I want to play racquetball but my favorite one without his shadow pitcher is horse riding do you know what horse riding is in America it is not called horse fighting no horseback riding because there was a period of time when they didn't call it away they go they had with him he used to hold on to the tail that's a whole different thing you're doing that anybody was watching the show who may have been flicking channels this was a story about American descriptive words you

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Length: 2min 53sec (173 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 20 2019