English or American

English or American

Which language is Sup Forums approaved?

American? since they rule the world

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you're the one who teaches it

fpbp

SHEEEEEEEEEIT

Is it twoo that British people think American English has been corrupted by French?

Does an American saying the word fillet sound as retarded to an English person as it does to me when they say it?

England since its named after them

I would much rather have Americans speak like Brits. I like to say bloke and trousers.

I don't think so, personally. The defining difference of english english and american english is that the former is non-rhotic. Americans use an "arrr" where we use an "aah".

However, some british accents do bear that similarity to modern american accents. In fact its where the stereotypical pirate accent comes from.

While I'm not autistic enough to get irate about the way americans pronounce things for the most part, I do find "farther" compared to "further" silly. Same as "carbean" vs "carbine".

Yeah buy I'd almost rather jump off a cliff than say hurricunn or glassier.

Australian-English

You seem like the most uptight, Aspergers fuck that ever lived. I bet you have a filing system for your mother's spoons, you fucking nerd.

in the post-brexit post-trump world they are both hateful and evil

start speaking aussie english m8

No I don't, but I do keep my socks in a different drawer to my boxers

Back to plebbit faggot

Hello as you can plainly see by the flag located at the top of this post I am American and as such I say that British English is better by far and that's got nothing to do with me being English, an absurd and baseless accusation to be certain.

burger english>british

British English ranges from perfectly understandable but distinct to utterly impenetrable fucking hideous garbage-speak.

American English ranges from perfectly understandable and clearly enunciated to perfectly understandable and quaint.

I am, of course, not including niggerese because I am assuming we are interested in human languages primarily.

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DUST

THE COSMOS

DUDE...

How did this guy get his PhD again?

American English is closer to the original.

I've noticed that in Latin America, parts of Europe, and Asia American English is more popular. However, since Britain is in Europe, there are more British English teachers available in the region, they push British English as the best variety. Even if their pupils want the American variety.

British english.

Americans have a weird accent that sounds like jamaican.

American English is older. American English is better.

There's English,
or there's American English

Scorpions are not blisters. They are ballistas.
Bobby is a name, not short for Barbecue.
It's cigarette, not homosexual.

You must be thinking of america's ghetto niggers

No there's English and Bongistani

No. I just don't like the american accent in general. It is painful to listen their R's sound.

It is even more painful to listen to canadians speaking. Accents from the Americas are fucking trash.

The Queens English because it isn't simplified like burger english so the native mutt retards can understand.

english is the language of the past. like latin; old, forgotten, unsolicited.

american language of present and future.

Here's how you pronounced what you said:
>I just don't like the amedican accent genedal. It is painful to listen they R's sound.
>It is even mode painful to listen to canadians speaking. Accents from the Amedicas ahd fucking tdash.
If you try to pronounce 'r', it might sound a little better.

>shoves undies, sock and jimmy in the same draw

how many drawers do you have?

...

I have a row of 4

socks in one, undies in one, jimjams in the other, and random shit like belts or shoes I never wear in the bottom. Otherwise I have a standing wardrobe for stuff like shirts and trousers. One side uses hangers, the other side is shelves.

True. I do like how Enlgish English has this odd sort of catching, almost rhymy nature in the way they use certain phrases

For instance: "Sex Attacker" instead of rapist. Or "Bobs your uncle"

n-nice... you don't have a gf do you?

>t. has only one drawer

underrated

Why do Americans say "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less"?

I do have a gf but she doesn't live with me, I don't have much room in my bedroom anyway. The double bed takes away tons of space, I'm surprised I managed to fit the wardrobe in at all

Depends on which country has the most aircraft carriers and nukes.

dictionary.com/browse/idiom?s=t
I'm not sure if the Brits know this word, but hey, here you go.

ignorance

Some hicks from the south have a horrible drawl when they speak

I actually like the southern drawl
>tfw no gf who sounds like she's from the dukes of hazzard

I can't fucking stand non-rhotic English. We have R's. They're fucking meant to be pronounced.

And don't even get me started on britbongs getting rid of H's in words that should have them, while also inserting H's into words where they're not supposed to be pronounced.
Or that thing some britbongs do where they "click" the last syllable if it's a T or a K. So "sit" becomes "si'T" Hard to describe. Many such cases. Annoying!

Ever heard a High Tiger accent?

In general British and Irish English sounds better and has better slang. "teaching" it separately doesn't make sense as most people are aware of the basics of our spelling differences and pronunciation differences. It's not like you're going to be learning Yorkshire or Appalachian English

I don't think I've heard one, or I might have but I've never heard of anything called a high tiger accent.

That's just a popular trope, there's no basis to it except that rhoticity was more common in the UK in the past as opposed to now

I'm a web developer so I've gotten used to writing colour as color - it doesn't really look right but it doesn't trip me up.

English spelling is what we use in Australia and to me it looks the most natural, however - English doesn't really look like how it sounds anyway so I guess ultimately it doesn't matter.

I think it is pretty clear that American spelling was invented purely for patriotic purposes, it seems forced to me.

As for the spoken language it honestly doesn't bother me so much. People put a lot of stock in those types of things, in terms of what sounds the best I'm biased towards Australian (obviously). I hate the pretentiousness that comes from received pronunciation British English and I hate the Scottish accent. The best sounding accent in my opinion is the accent that people from Minneapolis have, I dunno - it just sounds nice.

It's the opposite. British English has been corrupted by French. Not all dialects though. Northern England has more pure dialects, whereas south England dialects are bastardized.

Retards exist

Nice thread.

Too bad I had to report it because it belongs on Sup Forums.

Report me for announcing a report. I don't care.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E

There's a couple more barrier islands in the Carolinas that have a similar accent but I've not heard it

>there's no basis to it
>except for this very strong evidence that it is true

You're cherrypicking extremely remote and strange accents that are notable because of how strange they are and how few people speak them. It's certainly not the standard.

>The best sounding accent in my opinion is the accent that people from Minneapolis have, I dunno - it just sounds nice.

What the fuck? I bet you like Inland NA English too (Chicago-Detroit-Buffalo-Upper Peninsula). The nicest American accent is an older upper class Virginia accent

Sounds nice to me. I've heard loads of people including burgers say they really hate that kind of accent but I love it.

That has nothing to do with other factors of pronunciation in addition to there still being rhotic accents in the UK and almost all of Ireland while there is non-rhotic accents here.

tuh > to
hafta > have to
git > get
shoulda > should have
shouldn'ta hadta > should not have had to
uh-LOOM-ih-num > AL-oo-MIN-ee-uhm
bolth > both

What are you talking about? The guy mentioned West country English (pirate accent) so I showed him an accent that's believed to have a lot of West country influence. I don't have an agenda

To be fair, it's really not fair to say that either american or british is the "more authentic accent". They both diverged greatly from the original progenitor language. American accents mostly kept the R sounds, but there are other changes. For example, british english actually has a "short o" sound (god, hot, etc). We americans pronounce short o the same as an "ah" sound (gahd, haht). AFAIK we don't have that short o sound at all, and we only use it when impersonating britbongs. There are plenty of other examples too.

tfw new york accent american english
mfw people looking at me like im insane when I go to different countries

dev here too, I hate your stupid fucking extra u's in everything but at one point I worked with an aussie gamedev on a game, and he used "armour" for armor variables, and I have to say, that's the one case where it makes the word look more fuckin burly and I love it.

Which NYC accent though? I can't fucking stand the brooklyn kike accent, but the working class italian accent is good

Both of the two are multi-faceted
With British you have scummy slummy slurry chavspeak and then you have formal eloquently enunciated northern English/north Londonian posh.
With American you have... cali, cajun, bostonian, jew yorkish/jew jerseyish, southern drawl, et all. And then you have based clear, unambiguous, unirritating, placid-yet-commanding midwestern English, specifically modern chicagolandish (wisconsinians enunciate too much like leafcucks, and minnoswedans are all heavily bork borkish in their speech)
Between the two, I like the way posh sounds but it would have to be in a midwestern diction because some bongistani words and phrases are lost on me.

Bless your heart

I'm from the Midwest where we have a pretty darn neutral American accent and I love the southern accent. it's hot on girls and whenever you hear a guy with it in an online game, he's usually chill af

People are probably referring to a Virginia or New Orleans type accent and are displaying some odd regionalism rather than actual preference.

Philadelphia here. But I'm from a Quaker background so I don't speak like a mackerel snapper

>british step-mother
>typical manchester accent
>come to usa, people love it
>oooo so smart and educated
>she makes fun of them and uses that bias for the rest of her life

I've known a lot of Brits since and they all do the same. The only way to make them stop is to tell a similar story, telling them their mind tricks won't work.

Did she have big tits and wank you on a bed?

>accent is mix between Texan and Cajun
>outside of my area nobody understands what the fuck i'm saying.
I'm destined to die here aint I?

it's short for "i could afford to care less" which translates to "i wish you had not wasted my time with the shit you just said to me, nigger" in realtalk and "u wot m8" in the queen's slaggish

y'all'd've thought you knew english but it aint so

Brit
>intelligent burger speak
>women speaking in accent will seem sexier
Murica
>always gets attention
>great for yelling and starting fights/intimidation

>shouldn'ta hadta
is not the superior
>shouldn't've hadta

>bolth
wtf

SHIEEET maa' merican inglish iz da bess' am i riyt???

aks yo'self dis foo', yo' one dem bridish foo's? nah

that's liberian english, m8

At least we Americans can pronounce "Aluminum" correctly, and don't invent extra "i"s where none exist in the word.

Aluminium sounds better you mong

Its barbie you dense cunt

You mean 'lum-num?

Yeah but the word isn't fucking spelled that way.

Colour isn't spelt without a U. You spell it without a U

>>bolth
>wtf
it's a common American thing man. see youtu.be/2Pw8MayhrFI?t=21s (GG is stupid af but it's the first thing that came up on google and a decent example)

Adding or taking out that "u" doesn't impact the pronunciation, unless you want to change it from like "kul-er" to"cah-loor", which I've never heard anyone, even a britbong, say.

The UK is an entire nation that speaks as ignorantly as the hill billies Deliverance.

Fucking laughable.

TOP ZOZZLE

i doubt Americans would understand what i say when Brits struggle at it would love to test it

Not a thing in Texas though, never heard it.
Or the midwest.

eh yes it is you fat fuck
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium

>Or the midwest.
t. South Dakota. we say both "both" and "bolth", depending on context. youtube.com/watch?v=55LCw_Ig7mA

>using drawers and not just leaving everything in the hamper.

djeetyet

Ya but South Dakota isn't really midwest, midwest is more Ohio to Iowa with a bit of North Kentucky.

FPBP

Underrated

What about "chu" in place of "tu" sounds?

not bad

We fucked u out of it
1776 never forget

I have an American Southern accent, and I pronounce aluminium exactly as it's written.

I don't think anybody here has to forget it, we don't even learn about the British Empire let alone some conflict that happened when our empire was a few overseas possessions.