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What English Laguage you want
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Ben Lebowski
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If you're going by the American sense, they're waaaay different.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that for British, a cookie is harder and flat, and a biscuit is softer and slightly raised.
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Pancake Smith
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Rowena Svoltaire
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| Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:23 am |
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Kind of the opposite Ben
Generally in the UK (although with americanisation to be honest the line isn't that clear any more)
Cookie
Biscuit
Biscuits can be sweet or savoury. It's a bit of a weird situation though because generally cookie is an American word and biscuit is an English one, so personally I might well say biscuit for either of the above, it's not really defined
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Ben Lebowski
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| Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:20 am |
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Whoops. At least I was half right with the differences.
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Lues Giffuri
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| Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:39 am |
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| British accents are pretty cool but they have really weird english expressions |
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Bjorn Harlan
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| Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:35 am |
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We call those scones.
Got any other examples of Biscuits just to see if that's it?
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| I'm American, so of course I use American English. It seems a lot more direct, sharp, and to the point without all those extra letters. |
This video sums up everything I have to say about that sentence.
Plus it's funny. |
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Constance Anderson
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| Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:48 am |
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| I fell like learning english. |
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Pancake Smith
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Bjorn Harlan
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| Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:01 pm |
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| Pancake Smith wrote: |
More biscuits.
Scones for us are similar, but not quite the same. Less fluffy. |
Yeah, those are scones.
We have no denominations of scones.
Unless you count differing pronunciations. |
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Lolbear Simpson
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Chaniii Mazinga
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| Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 2:51 pm |
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Meh, I like the English ways.Like colour, mum ...etc.
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Actionboy Smith
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| Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 9:04 pm |
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| Bjorn Harlan wrote: |
We call those scones.
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Brahahaha! Yeah I was like 'That looks like a scone!'.
Google Anzac Biscuit. That's what a biscuit looks like.
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Lolbear Simpson
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:41 am |
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OMG!!
Clicky!
Omnomnomnomnomnom... Blerugh, there's metal in this? Hmmm... what happens if I dip it into milk?  |
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Constance Anderson
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 9:18 am |
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| Lolbear Simpson wrote: |
OMG!!
Clicky!
Omnomnomnomnomnom... Blerugh, there's metal in this? Hmmm... what happens if I dip it into milk? |
Lol.If its dip in the milk,nothing.If you drink the milk,you. get electric shock.
And the metal thing is a data switch. |
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Niall Calothycos
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:21 am |
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Bjorn I love Izzard so much. You've got so much taste.
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