The British, when they have to click the American flag for English, and then they see “color” without the “u”:
Col-or what, that’s what I want to know.
We save it for u wot M8?
Brit here it’s our laugauge don’t like it? Get your own instead of spelling ours wrong
350 million Americans, 70 million British.
Your minority opinion is noted but outvoted, micronation.
Colony
I’m here for this English on regressed English violence.
Regressed English are the Welsh mate the colonys are known as the new indies
Hmmmm yes but the average American reads at a grade 6 level, so I daresay UK beats USA there.
Do you have a comparable statistic for British adults, or could no one afford to fund the study?
https://literacytrust.org.uk/parents-and-families/adult-literacy/
https://www.prosperityforamerica.org/literacy-statistics/
These are what I found after searching literacy statistics for both nations. I haven’t gone and checked through the data but it seems that the UK has a lower illiteracy rate than the US.
Canadian here. Choosing between UK English and US English feels like choosing between an abusive father and abusive husband.
We are a reformed crazy dad we are trying to be part of your life but we’re still drama
What’s all that aboot?
As opposed to everyone else when they have to click the US flag to get English language options
There is no U in “Boston Tea Party” either.
Bouston Teua Puarty
English (simplified) or spanglish? I’ll let americans decide which is better
The unnecessary "u"s haunt us
At this point point, people who speak English as second language usually go “awww, how cute, the native speakers really think this is the biggest controversy of English orthography.”
(Instead of, you know, everything.)
Its more just the easily memable one.
Sobs quietly
I just want a consistent spelling system.
Or in American …
The nnecessary ""s hant s.
I woke up screaming last night because I dreamed I went to grab my colored pencils and they said “colour” on the box. Almost as bad as that time I dreamed I had to take a driving tests and all the speed signs were in KM.
Speak native american!!
As an Aussie it really grinds my gears that office defaults to American spelling. And even after I change the dictionary to Australian or UK english it still continues to insert ‘z’ into words. It’s colonise, not colonize!
I thought in Aus and other international areas the Z was considered correct spelling, even though most of the rest follows British convention?
Australia follows British conventions. However both spellings are correct and there has been a rise in ‘z’ over the past few years with American influence.
All government websites etc use British spelling.
Of course it’s worth adding that the Oxford English Dictionary argues (argued?) that the z is proper in British English! I disagree ;-)
What!
My world doth shaketh
Mine too. I had to stop believing in the OED as the foremost authority on correct English!
Besides, they probably put commas in the wrong places over there too.
How do you pronounce that word
Haben Sie schonmal von germanischen Sprachen gehört, wo ein ‘S’ duraus so wie englisches ‘Z’ klingen kann?
I bet that sounds really good if you say it out loud
Scottish people having to click on a British flag knowing it will display English (there is a perfectly good flag for England that people refuse to use 🏴)
Ami: isn’t that the red cross flag?
I think the Scots having to click on an English flag to read something would piss them off more?
Or are you suggesting having a Scottish flag that displays the site in Gaelic for that 2% of Scots that know it?
I think you’re overthinking it slightly.
- French flag represents the language called “French”
- Spanish flag represents the language called “Spanish”
- Russian flag represents the language called “Russian”
- German flag represents the language called “German”
- Portuguese flag represents the language called “Portuguese”
- Japanese flag represents the language called “Japanese”
- Korean flag represents the language called “Korean”
- Chinese flag represents the language called “Chinese”
- Italian flag represents the language called “Italian”
- But somehow, the British flag doesn’t represent a language called “British”, but rather, one called “English”, despite there existing an English flag
See? This is why we shouldn’t use flags to represent languages.
Go to Brazil, and I bet they use the Brazilian flag to represent the language they speak, not the Portuguese one.
Go to Ireland, and you’ll see they use the Irish flag to represent the English language.
In Switzerland, what flag should they use to represent Ladin?
And what about Canada? They speak two official languages.
The correct way to display languages is just their name or they ISO code. Using flags for languages is fundamentally wrong.
I feel like I’ve seen the Quebec territory flag used for “FR (Can)” which I found amusing as a US hick
French people think Quebec French sounds funny too
You’re right, I was, thanks. Good effort btw
there is a perfectly good flag for England that people refuse to use
Well yeah, but these days, you say you’re English, you’ll get arrested and thrown in jail 😆
Traditional English vs Simplified English. I won’t tell you which is which.
Ah, one more way in which post-colonial America and Mao’s China are similar.
Traditional English vs Yankee English.
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I saw a New York Times recipe once that called for ¾ cup plus 2 tablespoons of all purpose flour.
They meant 125g.
Yeah, but it’s not obvious how many galoshes of diced onion I need when it says 100g.
Honestly at that point just use the whole onion
I had a roommate in college royally fuckup huge batch of very expensive ribs we’d bought for a party because the online recipe called for 2 cloves of garlic abbreviated as “garlic - 2c” and he put in 2 cups of garlic powder.
Fake - you can never have too much garlic.
🇬🇧 English (Traditional)
🇺🇸 English (Simplified)There are some English words and phrases that can’t be said in American English. Like the “I inherited this government position from my father”. Or, “Sure hope the King doesn’t veto this legislation”.
Lol don’t watch the news
There are some English words and phrases that can’t be said in American English. Like the “I inherited this government position from my father”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush🤔
Also, as far as the “King Veto” part:
They’re not denying that happens in England, just pointing out that it functionally happens in the US too. So I’m not really sure what your point is.
The last royal veto was in 1708, and any attempt to do so now would probably end the monarchy.
🇨🇦 English (Celeste)
🇬🇧 English (Traditional)
🇺🇳 English (Simplified)
🇺🇲 English (Dumbified)🇦🇺 English (Felon)
🇮🇪 English (EU)
Shots fired.
The Troubles Part 2: It Came From The EU
I’m not quite sure if this is an intentional Hamilton reference or not, but I’m definitely not throwing away my chance to comment on it!
Would you even say you’re not throwing away your shot?
how is acknowledging an irish person making fun of brexit a reference to Hamilton?
The acknowledgement featured “shot(s)” which also play a very prominent part in the hit musical Hamilton, the origin of OP’s meme. It was a poor attempt on meta referential humor on my part.
I’d never know that’s English
i recently got the recommendation to switch locale to ireland in order to get normal date formatting. worked very well.
I usually use UK English to have a sane date formatting (the US format is completely retarded), but you have a good idea. I’ll use Ireland from now on.
I use Denmark English for sane date formatting.
Though I don’t know why that locale exists.
🇦🇺 ɥsᴉlƃuƎ
🇨🇦 English (Polite)
🏴 English (Unhinged)
🏴 English (Dragon tongue)
Except American English is the traditional. England kept fucking with their language and spelling, and now everything has 6 unnecessary vowels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#Historical_origins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#Latin-derived_spellings_(often_through_Romance)Webster’s 1828 dictionary had only -or and is given much of the credit for the adoption of this form in the United States. By contrast, Johnson’s 1755 (pre-US independence and establishment) dictionary used -our for all words still so spelled in Britain (like colour), but also for words where the u has since been dropped: ambassadour, emperour, errour, governour, horrour, inferiour, mirrour, perturbatour, superiour, tenour, terrour, tremour. Johnson, unlike Webster, was not an advocate of spelling reform, but chose the spelling best derived, as he saw it, from among the variations in his sources.
Nope.
Although unjerk, spelling reform and standardisation is very necessary for english.
Rejerk
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🇩🇪🇩🇰🇳🇴 Traditional?
Ok, it’s driving me crazy.
Who is that? The actor, not the character they’re playing.
Lin-Manual Miranda
I thought so, thanks!
Isnt that Lin-Manuel Miranda?
I thought so, thanks!
It’s my right as an American to not have extra 'U’s in my words and you’re infringing on it!
There’s no extra 'U’s. What you want is your right to exclude the 'U’s you don’t feel are necessary, it’s not the same thing. There was no need for the 'z’s but you guys couldn’t help yourselves could you!?
Oh, and that’s pronounced “z”, not ”z”!
Get obsoleted, King-haver (less of a burn now, coming from Loompa-land 😭)
At least we don’t pronounce it “zed”
(joking) You deserve more downvotes for this
How dare Americans pronounce it as (constant sound)-ē like b, c, d, g, p, t, and v instead of its correct pronunciation as one of 2-3 consonants that aren’t just their sound preceded or followed by a vowel sound
That being said, my takes on alphabet pronunciation are total batshit, I have beef with H and Q
Dang, I really struck a nerve huh? My bad, it was just meant as a playful jab.
You’re good, no nerve struck here, just being melodramatic for fun =)
Quite frankly, I’m not sure why your comment is getting downvoted so much XD
Dunno, people are weird.
I use American English for the superior compression algorithms and the more extensive import features.
Meh, imports ale too expensive nowadays anyways.
Tell me with a straight face that the word armor needs a u 😋
Colour is worse. No way. It is color you little shit.
Neither of those rhymes with “or” though.
But it does rhyme with “our”, lol
Co-loor
The future is now, old man!
colour armour labour favour honour harbour
honestly it’s just so much more fancy with -our
“Trmp” sonds so mch better.
I replaced the US flag with a UK one on my website for this reason x)
As an American who does web development, “You guys have multiple languages on your websites?”
Percentage wise, more percent of the population in England speaks English than in the US.
