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🇺🇸 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”.
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🤔
Lol don’t watch the news
🇬🇧 English (Traditional)
🇺🇳 English (Simplified)
🇺🇲 English (Dumbified)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
Portuguese people clicking on the Brazilian flag to see something in Portuguese 💀
One of these days Trump is gonna sue the UK for speaking the American language
“By presidential decree, it will no longer be called ‘American English’ and ‘British English’, it will be ‘American American’ and ‘English American’.”
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?
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.
Brit here it’s our laugauge don’t like it? Get your own instead of spelling ours wrong
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
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
We alsou have to start adding U’s in places that nourmally only have O’s.
Nou.
Why nout?
Because I said sou.
Ok, it’s driving me crazy.
Who is that? The actor, not the character they’re playing.
Lin-Manual Miranda
I thought so, thanks!
Speak native american!!
The unnecessary "u"s haunt us
The British, when they have to click the American flag for English, and then they see “color” without the “u”:
We save it for u wot M8?
English (simplified) or spanglish? I’ll let americans decide which is better
“hmm… this isn’t the right country but let’s roll the dice and see what happens”
I just hit the back button. You won’t catch me disrespecting the motherland like that
