Non Americans: Does seeing American English bother you?

[Coffinshaker]

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.

same thing here brother! Grey is the only wey! >)

 

[Jonabob87]

I only get annoyed when people tell me I'm spelling a word wrong. No, armour is right. Colour is right.

Spell however you like, just don't tell me I'm wrong when I'm not. I will rage.

This, 100% this.

The only Americanism that truly irritates me is "I could care less" because it's fucking stupid.

I do find it a little annoying, but not as much as I find the way Americans pronounce some words. I'm an Australian, and I'm sick and tired of hearing yanks pronounce the 'u'. It's a-stralia, not aw-stralia. I do find the red line very annoying. I know what I'm saying, goddamnit!

Australia is pronounced "Aw-streyl-ya" not "ah-streyl-ya".

As an Aussie you should know this, or would you call yourself an "ahssie"?

 

[Tilted_Logic]

I've been told I'm wrong when I spell it colour (I'm Canadian, that's just how we spell it). That itself pissed me off. But I don't care one way or another what other people do. Half the time I end up mixing and matching and saying honor and colour in the same sentence

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Doesn't bother me at all.

I actually sometimes use the american spelling when it coems to "color"/"armor" etc.

 

[hawkeye52]

Spelling and grammar nazi's just annoy me just because of that fact that if you are able to comprehend the original meaning of the sentence to the point where you can correct a person on it then it means the point that the person was originally trying to get across has done so and so there is no need to correct him on it other then petty spite.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

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

... Wait... WHAT?

When did American become a language?

 

[johnnyLupine]

Irritated? Im furious. We did you all a massive favor, you turned up to your first shadow goverment meeting as an 'independant' nation and in all the excitement of being told you would get to be head puppet for afew years you forgot to bring a language..so we let you use ours! it was a perfectly good one too but what did you do? you didnt just neglect it. you downright butchered it!

If it wasnt for high overlord Rastus Figglewiggle's intervention we would have taken it back and let you deal with the concequences of not having a language.


hrmm..sounds more like mock anger..yeah..i think i just pretend to be irritated because its fun.

Although "in back of you" boggles me. Why not just say behind you and be done with it..typical American attitude.. making things bigger for the sake of making them bigger. Im writing to the queen to see if she can bring that up in the next shadow goverment meeting. she has a seat right next to the patriots you know.

 

[Inkidu]

I'm actually an American student who is an English major. Now allow me to state with the utmost terminological exactitude (Get it British people?) that it's no big, flipping deal. Yeah, that's the technical term for it.

 

[Inkidu]

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

... Wait... WHAT?

When did American become a language?

Merriam Webster released his Dictionary of the American Language a few hundred years ago. He stated that Americans and English have different languages. It's certainly true if you ever tried to work on English cars.

 

[Blitzkreg]

It only annoys me when I get the occasional, "Learn how to spell in English"

The I have to tell them its the Americans that swapped it for god knows what reason.

The spell checker is also a little annoying.

I was too lazy to read the whole thread so if someone else has pointed this out sorry for the repetition. American English is a more accurate representation of the English language back in the 1600s. Its actually the English who changed their own spelling and language for the most part.

 

[Total LOLige]

It does bother me a little. For example how Americans spell odour as odor and colour as color. It's more annoying in books written by american writers. It only bothers me because sometimes I use the Americanized spellings in english tests, this results in lost marks.Also the I before E except after C rule has lost me a good few marks.

 

[Turigamot]

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!

Generally doesn't bother me, but one that annoys me every time I see, or especially hear it is "Aluminum"

Seriously, what the actual fuck.

I don't really know how many times this has to be said, but it was Aluminum before it was Aluminium.

 

[squeekenator]

I spend too much time on the internet to be overly bothered by American spellings, but what does irritate me is the reasoning behind it. Americans win their independence and then decide to change the way they spell a few words and paint their room black to prove how different and rebellious they are, and how they don't play by society's rules because NOBODY UNDERSTANDS THEM.

Long story short, Noah Webster is the antichrist.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I don't give a monkeys about the how people spell things (as long as I can still understand what they're writing) as long as they're consistent with it.

 

[Seriin]

(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.

I know, I was kidding.

 

[Porygon-2000]

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

Oh, sorry about the mix-up. When you talked about Arkansas, it sounded at the time like you were referring to it as a home state or something. I realise that calling a Canadian an American is just a bit of a no-no, so I apologise.
But we can still be friends right? Friend!