Non Americans: Does seeing American English bother you?

[Johnny-Natrium]

It's not as much about spelling as grammar. The spelling really doesn't bother me, but when people say "gotten" instead of got, that kind of bothers me.

 

[Vhite]

Im not sure who it was but I hate how word "gay" got spoiled.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

I don't really give a sh*t, unless I'm told I'm spelling something wrong. TBH I'm not really a fan of standardised (no red line, I am spelling that correctly) spelling.

 

[Illithidae]

Actually the 'u' words don't bother me.


It's when I see "gray" that I get upset D:<

It's kind of weird. I'm an American, yet I've always spelled it "grey." "Gray" just doesn't look, or feel, right to me.

Both are accepted forms in American English.

To flip it a little, the only British thing that annoys me is Lieutenant pronounced leftenent (which is of course pronunciation, not spelling). The word has it origins in French, and when broken up is lieu and tenant. Do British people use the phase "in lieu" of something, which means "in place" of something? If they do, do they say "in lef" of something? I understand there was some old English spelling that used an f (which I believe was based on an incorrect interpretation of the old French word), but it seems that should have been corrected a long time ago.

As for the differences, British spellings don't annoy me so I don't know why English spellings should annoy anyone.

You must really hate "Colonel" being pronounced "Kernel," then. I know I find it a bit ... odd.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

FFS, I'm not trolling, can someone delete this.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

Same with this one.

 

[nunqual]

what really pisses me off is in Arkansas, according to state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is "American".

That is incorrect. The official state language of Arkansas has been listed as English since 1987. Research FTW!

OT: Well, I'm an American, but I don't really care about spelling differences. I tend to use the Americanized spellings, just because that's how I was taught.

 

[NinjaOnXTC]

I use both, depending on wether or not I need to spell things properly, or if I can lose a couple of letters and still keep the meaning without degenerating into text language...

 

[archaicmalevolence]

since i'm too lazy to change my settings in word, yes. Though pronunciation definitely doesn't as i pronounce things either way depending on how i feel

 

[Shydrow]

They are two different languages as far as I'm concerned at this point in terms of spelling. We can hardly understand each other anyways when we use local terms. Trust me when i say wicked it is a good thing not a bad thing Mr.European don't be so mad when i say that.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

(I'm not even sure Australian is English sometimes..)

There's a difference between Australian English and the colloquial dialect Strine... but it's not like other English speaking nations don't have colloquial dialects that differ from their standard/'official' English.

 

[Stealthygamer]

what really pisses me off is in Arkansas, according to state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is "American".

Aren't you guys supposed to be big on free speech or something?

I am not American, I'm Canadian

 

[SovietPanda]

I find myself reasonably passive about american spelling, but some comedian on tv just pronounced 'niche' as 'nitch' thats crossing a line

 

[roostuf]

Christ the bloody spellcheck really recks my shit up when it come to English vocabulary.

And also ITS ALUMINIUM! ALA-MIN-EE-UM! NOT ALA-LUU-MIN-UM!

 

[thechaostheory]

When can people from the UK get their own edition of games in true English? lol

 

[SilentCom]

The only thing that annoys me is that the Escapist text box's auto-spellcheck keeps telling me that I'm incorrectly spelling colour, favourite, honour, armour, etc. These red underlines....have made me lose my faith in humanity (edit: /s).

There's an auto-spellcheck on the Escapist?

I usually don't need auto-spellcheck anyways because my spelling tends to be good, however I spell words with American english.

 

[Blow_Pop]

I am American but American English still bothers me. Though that may be because everyone I talk to is in the UK *shrugs*

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

No it's never bothered me. Then again I've never had an American telling me I'm spelling something wrong. Even if they did I'd just tell them to shut the fuck up.

 

[terzil]

I was never introduced to American spelling when I learned english so Im more used to "colour" "favourite" and such. I thought when people wrote "armor" they misspelled it. I can get kind of annoyed because I get that stereotypical southern dialect in my head when I read American spelling.

 

[supermariner]

Honestly don't mind how anyone chooses to spell anything
even if it's that unreadable text speak that nobody can decipher
It's just when Americans tell me that MY version is wrong (which doesn't happen often) that i get annoyed