1. Your cunt

1. Your cunt
2. Do you use American or British spelling?
3. Would you be okay with American spelling completely overtaking British spelling??

american english is closer to the original english spoken in the 1700's. Fact.

>1. Your cunt
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>2. Do you use American or British spelling?
Both, to be honest. Sometimes I between the two in the middle of a sentence. This is what you get for not studying English at school, but learning it scrap by scrap online or in videogaymes.
>3. Would you be okay with American spelling completely overtaking British spelling??
Yes

switch*

it happens to people that went to school too

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British
No, American English is basically Ebonics and Spicisms.

This thread is dull btw because pic related

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1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes

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idc english is shit tier language anyways but british one sounds nicer

Ebonics isn't even English, that's why it's called Ebonics

Americans have adopted it and it will become the new English

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British spelling
Wouldn't mind, but would prefer it being the other way around

"""""""""""""French"""""""""""" spoken by Maghreb and Sub Saharans.

I use your mom

and vietnamians

>Americans have adopted it
So has most of the world by that logic

>It's a Canada sucks British cock thread.

When will you admit you are far more like the US than Britain in pretty much every way?

I switch from time to time.
Which ever is more pleasant to look at.

We use center too, just with a different meaning.

Centre = Middle
Center = Building where a specified activity is concentrated (e.g. leisure center)

Merging them into one spelling just confuses things.

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As long as it doesn't affect spoken RP English, it's my fucking fetish...

shieeet mafuggin bix nood ma nigguh sheeit get da scrillaa yo fuggin mad L's dawwwg.

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2. American
3. Yes please. British spelling is retarded.

We learn English not because of britain but because of the US. American spelling is also less obnoxious.

1. China
2. American
3. Yes. Languages are constantly evolving. With the Internet, all major languages are being simplified (if not dumbed-down) when informally used. It is only natural that simpler American English is overtaking British spelling. It speeds up communications for native and non-native speakers alike.

Although not completely the same, the American/British English issue can be compared with Simplified/Traditional Chinese. The latters indeed carry more historical and cultural significance. But just not as easy to use.

You proved my point

Leafs are the fucking worst, I swear to God.

Embarrassingly up until I was about 20 I thought it was spelt defense and not defence. It was primarily due to the over consumption of American media. Fucking reptilians controlling the media and pushing their incorrect-spelling agendas

>American """"English""""""""

1. Switzerland.
2. American all day, unless I can be assed to switch it up if I'm writing to a Brit, Canuck or Aussie, but that doesn't happen very often.
3. It's inevitable. Don't mind it one bit.

Francais, comme langue, a connu des jours meilleurs, pêh. Il survivra, évidemment, mais c'est tout, plus ou moins.

>Merging them into one spelling just confuses things.

There is no one who would not be able to figure out from context.

>Canadian "banter"

>""""""""banter'"""""""""""

Shiiet nigguh vato

>I prefer British English

1. Australia
2. The true spelling, the British way
3. No American spelling is wrong

>"Go to the center of [location]"

Seems pretty confusing in that context.

>As a poet-warrior I pronounce schedule as shed-yool.

Whats fedora about that?

>I prefer British english because it is purer

Only if you are retared (british)

If you used British spelling in an American English class or vice-versa do you think the teacher would/should mark it wrong?

>They have the audacity to spell colour without the u. Bloody neanderthals.

Yes, British English is pretty abominable.

1. Argentina
2. British
3. No, fuck off mate.

Based argie

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1. Flag
2. Proper
3. No

Not that guy but fedora fags here love to use Briticisms for some reason. It may be due to British English sounding pretentious or more likely the fedora fag pantheon is made up of British speakers like Dawkins, Thunderfoot and Sargon.

What flag do Malvinas posters have?

>British english? no, i speak PROPER english

WE NEED TO PROTECT THE COMMONWEALTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DOWN WITH THE AMERICAN PIGS!!!!!!! IMPERIALIST CUNTS!!!!!!!

1. New Zealand

2. We use British spelling

3. American English a shit

Nobody does this. It's not really a rule, at least not enforced anyway.

They post under their own flag

Yes but it's by those that try to emulate The Victorians rather than just putting u in colour.

1. The United Kingdom of England and Wales
2. British spelling
3. No, not at all. I work as a proofreader, and every time I see an Americanized spelling I cross it out and correct it.

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2 I was tought british but honestly i just use a mix of both.

3 I like things the way they are

But that's entirely accurate. It's their language. American English is a creole of valley girl with Ebonics and Spanish dialects.

1. France.

2. I use British spelling only (i.e. the non-mongrelised version of English), except when I want to look unremarkable or anonymous.

3. No, American spelling is revolting.

English is the language of england so however its spelled there is correct.

>Le British English is original English meme
with
>Le American English is older counter-meme

>>Le British English is original English meme
Yes, what a meme. English originating in England, totally a ridiculous idea.

it's not your language lmao

Generally, I use American, because that's what I'm most influenced by, and American spellings makes it more consistent.
Sometimes I'll intentionally use British, if I want to show my Europeanness, for example in Europe vs. America threads, or just as a subtle way to say I'm an European that's awake when it's 5 in the morning here.

I don't think American should overtake it completely. It is nice with a bit diversity, and it's a shame that American culture destroys European culture, and this would be anothere example of that.

it is not the notion that it england is the origin of the language (which of course it also isn't), but the idea that that would grant any authority as to how to spell it.

There are more americans speaking English than there are Englishmen speaking english.

I thought America doesn't have culture

standardization of spelling is what is being spoken about here, and noah webster's standardization came first

>American English is basically Ebonics and Spicisms.

It's mostly just less-French spellings of everything.

It's all the same to me. I use them both throgh each outher.

There are more Africans speaking French than Frenchman. So?

In my case, it makes more sense to write in British English because it's closer to French.

For example, "paralyse" in French stays "paralyse" in British English. If I write the American "paralyze", it feels like I'm doing a really dumb spelling mistake in both languages.

Brits wouldn't care. They're happy their pakis and nogs speak some form of English instead of Arabic.

>There are more Africans speaking French than Frenchman
Racist, they're all French. :^)

Dude, he's French. He literally doesn't matter.

>The country that spawned the language has no say in how to spell words correctly using that language.

I'll just make a shit ton of spelling mistakes in Dutch and tell you that's how it's suppose to be now.

fair point. The reason that we learn English in school is not because of Britain but because of America however.

America trumps the UK in terms of exported culture, population and economy.

American's one is more coherent, and overall better.
British one is retarded just like the french language (where you add letters randomly that you don't pronounce just because).

What's wrong mate don't you like the world "queue"

I noticed the educated Africans actually speak a purer French than most French speakers do.

It is charming to hear certain African journalists who, in spite of their accent, will use proper French (grammar and vocabulary) like 100 years ago, and not the corrupted French of today's journalists (full of anglicisms, mistakes and vulgarities).

>fair point. The reason that we learn English in school is not because of Britain but because of America however.

Not exactly true. English was becoming more popular in Western Europe in the 19th century because of the British empire because English was the international language of business based out of London. Commoners might have spoken French more across the world but If you wanted to be successful you spoke English.

>just like the french language
at least French is coherent. The same cluster of letters (however redudant they may be) makes the same sound in every situation. English is literaly guess work.

Exactly, especially in a language without an Academie Francaise equivalent, where the language is determined by its speakers, and where American speakers far outnumber British speakers.Of course, Commonwealth English will likely survive, but as said, American English has become equal to if not greater than Commonwealth English in terms of international influence.

1. Former Socialist Republic of Bulgaria
2. British
3. Yes, American English overall is just legitimised illiteracy.

>Canadian """""bantre"""""

>America trumps the UK in terms of exported culture

Not if you're actually cultured and read literature.

The British literary canon, which uses British spelling, annihilates the American one hands down.

Using the American spelling shows you're illiterate IMO.

Not him, but in the Netherlands we get English, French and German in school if you have half a brain. (Latin / Greece if you're smart).

In international politics French was the lingua franca. And Germany always was our biggest trade partner, even today.

The UK always played a lesser role because both Germany and France had more influence on the continent.

>Academie Francaise equivalent

Ask the French about Quebec's ability to speak their language sometime. They will rightfully tell you they Quebecois "French" is full of anglicisms and stupid joual with no meaning that isn't' French. Number of speakers fucking up a language across an Ocean should not command the right too tell the people who created the language their way is valid too. It's not.

>legitimized illiteracy

>oi bill, git ovah eah wotter fock is this? you've must up agayn, ev uh mind to repoht yu to ta prum munster

american spelling is SLIGHTLY better
its still complete shit however

>The UK played a lesser role

until the 19th century. Now specifically French was more important for political acumen and I don't know the Netherlands and Germans reliance on one another but I imagine it was huge but the English language being the International language of business and going global happened in the 19th century because of the British empire. The three piece English style suit and tie was even adopted as formal dress for the workplace and business meetings the world over because of this.

It's still quite common for older Dutch people to be better at German than English.
And for Belgium the same applies to French.

>Not exactly true. English was becoming more popular in Western Europe in the 19th century

The last time I checked, we live in the 20th century and the British empire is less than a mere shell of what it once was. America however is thriving and will continue to do so. It only makes sense to use the spelling of the superpower in stead of a monkey island with the relevancy of scandinavia.

>using spelling
>being illiterate

pick one

But British English is amazing with all its various accents and inventive vocabulary. Also the "Oxbridge" English is a masterful creation.

American English feels stale and standardised as hell in comparison, it sounds like everyone aspires to become some obedient drone.

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both, whichever sounds less retarded

I'll even write "aluminium" but say "aluminum"

English is very important for international trade.

Just not for any European country beyond Ireland.

>The last time I checked, we live in the 20th century and the British empire is less than a mere shell of what it once was. America however is thriving and will continue to do so. It only makes sense to use the spelling of the superpower in stead of a monkey island with the relevancy of scandinavia.

You said the world only speaks English because of America. That's objectively wrong. American English is objectively wrong and used by Idiots.

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If you want to talk about stale and standardized, just look at Australian English. You've been memed by tv if you think Americans all sound the same.

It's literally the largest geographic area of people speaking the same fucking dialect.

this is not about sound. this is about spelling.

(btw. American english sounds more civilized, educated and all around better than any english dialect)

it feels like a dumbed down version, like how as kids we'd use shortcuts with texting to make words quick to write. feels ugly and lazy when you are writing something formal.

>we live in the 20th century

Centuries must be different in American English. It's the 21st here.

They have the right to do that because they have some sort of formal authority granted by the French to "protect" their language that they spread throughout their colonies, while the British did no such thing, neither before the Americans declared Independence nor after. If the British really wanted to keep a monopoly on the propriety of their language against the force by numbers of those "fucking it up", they could have certainly formed such an organization to facilitate Trans-Atlantic standardization, which never happened. I'm sorry you're so bitter about the British Empire losing influence to the United States after the World Wars.

Frenchies are almost just as well off learning Dutch as English.

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And the Africans do not lead the cultural production of French speaking artistic media so it makes it hard for them to lead in term of linguistic

>ILLITERATE
>showing or marked by a lack of familiarity with language and literature

t. Merriam-Webster dictionary from USA

>I pronounce schedule as shed-yool.

Do chinknadians and bongs really do this?