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Being English-as-in-UK I often run into situations where my dry/sarcastic humour completely fails to be clear to USians.

Then again from the UK POV the leftpondians barely count as native English speakers anyway ;)

>>mst+(OP)
Yet you'll find sources that claim spoken American English is closer to historical British English, because of some aspects like rhoticity. [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-p...

>>mst+(OP)
(So I guess "Rightpondia" would be Airstrip One?)

>>mst+(OP)
So strange. As a non-brit, every comment I read uses John Oliver or Diane Morgan as an internal monologue and is incredibly witty and sarcastic.

To be fair, I'm probably less informed for doing so.

>>mst+(OP)
Hmm. As a born Britisher I used to have this attitude until I read 'Mother Tongue' by Bill Bryson. He's an American who moved to the UK and has a good handle on the differences between American and British english.

>>eurode+Z2
We Have Always Been At War With Eurasia.

>>Brybry+L2
Those are all claims about the accent (my understanding of said claims is basically "sounds reasonable but also I have no idea what I'm talking about").

I was more thinking about the words/grammar/idiom etc.

(also as a Lancastrian I find e.g. Deep Somerset barely comprehensible, especially when the speaker is a few pints in, but their wording is still usually closer to mine than the USians' is)

>>tomrod+f4
You would likely be better with, say, Ian Hislop for me in terms of sarcasm, though while he's definitely a wit, no matter how hard I try I only ever seem to get half way.