>until someone said: "Wait, this letter is from the UK." This then led to a reinterpretation of the comment. Disaster averted.
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Best resources for learning this are Blackadder and Yes Minister. You can tell when meaning is different than words because audience laughs
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OMG that's what was suggested above, literally 100% identical suggestions. Haha. Great minds, etc.
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Also unless you're from the Anglosphere (with the exception of Americans) nobody tells you British people are old school classist until you
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move here. I was told repeatedly and often "You're foreign — what class is a Cypriot anyway?" or similar so I eventually got the memo.
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fml people actually asked that? that is such an uncouth question
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Classless, I daresay.

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As I said above, already, watch Blackadder (not the 1st) to get a caricature of what we're thinking of. It's hilarious but also accurate.
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Ah sorry missed that part (grr twitter threads)
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No worries! It's epic how you endorsed the same comedy suggestions!https://twitter.com/JoeSimons84/status/878241217737138178 …
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this one is nice for illustrating how even between Brits the ambiguity of the language is weaponised https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX45hc0aZt0 …
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Sometimes I genuinely worry that Americans think UK people are just polite versions of them cos they fetishise our accent (???). LOL NO M8

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Indeed, not just a polite version: "That idea is quite interesting" = if I had lighter on me, I'd set fire to it
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I feel like that about _quite_ a few ideas — see that I did there?
[Also I removed ppl who don't want to be in convo.]
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