ANGELFIRE1 Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 "What does British mean" I do not know any more, it's now simply indefinable IMHO. Angel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyofborg Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 "What does British mean" I do not know any more, it's now simply indefinable IMHO. Angel. was it ever definable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balpin Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Being British means that that you are decent chap. It means that you play the game. It means that you an all round good fellow. It means, basically you are an Englishman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squiggs Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Being British means that that you are decent chap. It means that you play the game. It means that you an all round good fellow. It means, basically you are an Englishman. So a Glaswegian isn't British then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retep Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 But it must be remembered that no Englishman....calls himself a Briton without a sneaking sense of the ludicrous, or hears himself referred to as a Britisher without squirming. How should an Englishman utter the words Great Britain with the glow of emotion that goes for him with England? His sovereign may be Her Britanic Majesty to outsiders, but to him is the Queen of England: he talks the English language;he has been taught English history as one continuous tale from Alfred to his own day; he has heard of the word of an Englishman and aspires to be an English gentleman; and he knows that England expects everyman to do his duty...In the word England, not in Britain all these things are implicit. It is unreasonable to ask forty millions of people to refrain from the use of the only names that are in tune with patriotic emotion, or to make them stop and think whether they mean their country in a narrower or wider sense each time they name it. Fowler 1983 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 being british means having influences and cultural remnents that go back thousands of years from all different nationalities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eater Sundae Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 But it must be remembered that no Englishman....calls himself a Briton without a sneaking sense of the ludicrous, or hears himself referred to as a Britisher without squirming. How should an Englishman utter the words Great Britain with the glow of emotion that goes for him with England? His sovereign may be Her Britanic Majesty to outsiders, but to him is the Queen of England: he talks the English language;he has been taught English history as one continuous tale from Alfred to his own day; he has heard of the word of an Englishman and aspires to be an English gentleman; and he knows that England expects everyman to do his duty...In the word England, not in Britain all these things are implicit. It is unreasonable to ask forty millions of people to refrain from the use of the only names that are in tune with patriotic emotion, or to make them stop and think whether they mean their country in a narrower or wider sense each time they name it. Fowler 1983 Well, I'm English and pretty much none of it applies to me. So it must be a load of rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 How many threads are there on this subject? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retep Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Well, I'm English and pretty much none of it applies to me. So it must be a load of rubbish. Then use British, simples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosxuk Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 To complain about people aspiring to be British because we're amazing, while also complaining about how awful Britain is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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