This guide on “what Americans say vs what they mean” is too accurate

Normal Bates. Updated January 5th, 2018

Enjoying this guide on how to translate American

this is too real pic.twitter.com/geic4V1gaJ

— tyler oakley // schedule pinned (@tyleroakley) January 3, 2018

“I studied teaching English in Germany for a tad bit (I’m American) and I did a presentation on American Customs with a group of individuals. One was from Malaysia who had studied in the US. It bothered her so much that when people said “We’ll get together soon,” they didn’t. 😟” says @Theoreticallyyy.

“I don’t have a word to describe what this is because he made me insecure about using any of them” writes @Below_eye_level.

This one for translating British is also good

Reminds me of this one for Brits… pic.twitter.com/ewo5eZSXVB

— Marcus Baram (@mbaram) January 4, 2018

As Oscar Wilde wrote: “We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.”

Source: Twitter/@tyleroakley