You Know You're In America When | Letters to an Unknown Audience

You Know You're In America When/ # /July 05, 2006

Girl (LOUDLY, to cell phone): Oh, hiii! Our plane just got in; we were super, super delayed.

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I don't get it?

—posted by Miranda at July 5, 2006 4:21 PM

It's the emphasis.

No one in Britain says "super, super." No one in Britain says, "super," in fact, except to refer to a boss or someone who runs a building.

The sound of American accents is really pricking up my ears on this trip.

—posted by Ezra at July 5, 2006 5:36 PM

Oh, I see. Um, that's like super weird that I didn't notice, but I guess I'm totally used to American diction at this point.

—posted by Miranda at July 5, 2006 9:13 PM

Good worck.

—posted by Hangover Pill at July 10, 2006 5:16 AM