Non Americans: Does seeing American English bother you?
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This doesn't apply to me because I am American, but I'd rather spell them colour, armour, grey, etc., though I often spell it the American way out of habit, or for consistency; I prefer realize instead of realise, so to spell one thing the American way and another the British way seems it would be rather arbitrary, though I'm not sure how many people would actually notice and give a shit.
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Well, nevermind, then. Thanks.james0192 said:
i dont care that much, languages develope in their own contries. what annoys me is american english assumed to be the correct spelling, as well as ppl trying to force it into our version of english...
Indeed, American "football" is played mostly with the hands, with the occasional kick. And by occasional I mean less times than a goal is scored in international football, so very few times.
Nope only time it bothers me is when they say they speak english when they mean american english... And "color" urks me for some reason also...
Also this, was writing a simple test program to test objects and it refused to accept the command "colour" <.<somonels said:
Americans have had hundreds of years to develop the language into their own, I have a problem with English people using American versions of spelling or pronunciations, my belief it that this is mainly down to television but people believe video games cause violence so I could be wrong.
Nope doesn't bother me. What does bother me is when people I know, who have been schooled all their life here in England spell words like an American. I just want to ask them at what point did you make the decision to go 'screw spelling how I've been taught to since I was a child, I'm going to spell differently!'
Oh and for anyone who thinks that spelling words with a Z instead of an S such as organize: both the S and the Z ways are correct for British English.
On a slightly related matter, what has confused me is the way the date is formatted in america mm/dd/yyyy just seems wrong to me.
Oh and for anyone who thinks that spelling words with a Z instead of an S such as organize: both the S and the Z ways are correct for British English.
On a slightly related matter, what has confused me is the way the date is formatted in america mm/dd/yyyy just seems wrong to me.
I haven't seen any games of rugby, but in American "football" players tend to ram other players full force with their heads and shoulders into the heads/shoulders/torsos of opposing players. That would cause a lot of injuries if not for the gear.Vault Citizen said:
I believe this is because the computer industry got it's start in the US, so it uses US style Englishkebab4you said:
America still uses the Imperial measurements system, only makes sense that they don't use the more modern spelling either.
The only things that annoy me:
1. When British people use American spellings.
2. When US websites (this one included) tell me that I'm spelling things wrongly because I favour (the red line here makes me angry) the occasional extra u.
Americans using it doesn't bother me though, 200 years after independence it isn't surprising new spellings have turned up.
Edit: Oh, one US spelling really does piss me of, and that's 'lazer,' which I've seen in a few places though I don't think it's that common even in America. You know it's an acronym, right? Under no circumstances can 'stimulated' be spelt (another red line here) with a z.
1. When British people use American spellings.
2. When US websites (this one included) tell me that I'm spelling things wrongly because I favour (the red line here makes me angry) the occasional extra u.
Americans using it doesn't bother me though, 200 years after independence it isn't surprising new spellings have turned up.
Edit: Oh, one US spelling really does piss me of, and that's 'lazer,' which I've seen in a few places though I don't think it's that common even in America. You know it's an acronym, right? Under no circumstances can 'stimulated' be spelt (another red line here) with a z.
I don't really have a problem with American spelling, it was the way they were raised to spell it, but tell me I'm spelling colour wrong because I leave the u in and I won't be very polite to that person
No, it doesn't bother me.
It bothers me more when Brits claim to speak "real English", as though no one else is allowed to touch their immaculate and pristine language (which they themselves change all the time). As long as people don't fuck up their local rules ("I could care less" is wrong whether you are American or English), I don't care.
It bothers me more when Brits claim to speak "real English", as though no one else is allowed to touch their immaculate and pristine language (which they themselves change all the time). As long as people don't fuck up their local rules ("I could care less" is wrong whether you are American or English), I don't care.
Not really - though I'm pretty concerned if what I heard about a week ago is true; Americans are beginning to adopt 'nite' in faVOUR of 'night'.
Stupid red lines... wish there was a way to change the language default - _ -
Stupid red lines... wish there was a way to change the language default - _ -
Yep. Especially when you install a program and it says 'English (American)' but you can't change it to proper English.
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Also, what the fuck is up with 'Aluminum'? That's not just you removing a vowel, that's a whole different fucking word. You don't even pronounce it correct. 'AluminIum'.
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Also, what the fuck is up with 'Aluminum'? That's not just you removing a vowel, that's a whole different fucking word. You don't even pronounce it correct. 'AluminIum'.