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Yeah, but it’s not obvious how many galoshes of diced onion I need when it says 100g.
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.
The unnecessary "u"s haunt us
Or in American …
The nnecessary ""s hant s.
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.)
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.
It’s my right as an American to not have extra 'U’s in my words and you’re infringing on it!
Trmp sonds so mch better.
colour armour labour favour honour harbour
honestly it’s just so much more fancy with -our
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!?
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.
The future is now, old man!
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.
Oh, and that’s pronounced “z”, not ”z”!
Get obsoleted, King-haver (less of a burn now, coming from Loompa-land 😭)
Speak native american!!
The way ‘herbs’ or ‘erbs’ (as some pronounce it) drives me absolutely nuts.
Also, ‘mirror’ where it sounds like ‘meer’ drives me nuts.
I definitely prefer British English. Love reading the old Agatha Christie books. E.g. “My word!” The colonel ejaculated, “I do believe that she’s dead!”
In the Black Panther they talk about the “heart-shaped 'erb,” and it sounds so strange to me, I always think it should then be “'art-shaped 'erb!”
Wakanda is a high-tech nation hidden in the jungles of the East Riding.
That “meer” thing has to do with where you are in America. Same with words like “roof” or “pecan”.
A tourist wanted since directions so he asked: "Sorry, do you speak American.’
My buddy who can be a purist: “I understand American but I speak English.”
Years ago I had someone ask me where the exit to the building is. The building occupies a complete city block in NYC and there are many exits. Using the wrong exit could add 15 minutes to your walk.
I asked him where he is was going. He got flustered, said “speak American”, and walked off.
On Oxford Street in London, a tourist asked me for directions to Edgware.
At first puzzled by his interest in visiting far-off social housing and knife crime, I quickly realized by his accent what he actually meant and directed him to nearby Edgware Road.
The whole concept of multilingual websites is foreign to Americans. There is only one language in their mind.
As soon as Trump was inaugurated, the Whitehouse website removed the spainish language feature
That’s for another reason we clearly know
What’s language?
yes
Portuguese people clicking on the Brazilian flag to see something in Portuguese 💀
Duolingo does this. English is American and Portuguese is Brazilian. Doesn’t make sense.
It makes a bit of sense because Duolingo teaches you the American variety of English and Brazilian.
But still… why?!
yeah I think they should offer the original languages too
Polish people clicking on the Polish flag to see something in Polish while being in Australia:
I wonder what the Polish, Monégasque, and Indonesian folk do when they win a flag competition?
Indonesian flag is just the Dutch flag with the blue part being torn out of spite
Celebrate, probably 🤷
You’re right. I’m overthinking it!
High-five the group of Belgian, Chadian, and Romanian vexillologists who were also sweating profusely throughout.
Then : Kurwa!
*ɐʍɹnʞ
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’.”
The Gulf of Obliviousness
Oblivious, Remastered
“hmm… this isn’t the right country but let’s roll the dice and see what happens”
As a Brit I feel like I’m going to have a cardiac arrest from cholesterol buildup every time I have to click the cheeseburger flag; so I can appreciate where they’re coming from.
We alsou have to start adding U’s in places that nourmally only have O’s.
Nou.
Why nout?
Because I said sou.
I wish there were some internationally recognized symbols to represent languages as distinct entities from their countries of origin, but the idea of trying to make some seems really unpopular for some reason.
There’s other languages that have far more politically contentious flags representing them - at least all the English-speaking countries are broadly allies. Spare a thought for the Taiwanese who have to select a People’s Republic of China flag, even though the language is as much theirs as it is the PRC’s, or the large number of Russian-speaking native Ukrainians who have to select the flag of the country who’s bombing them and their families.
The notion of a country owning a language is fraught with toxicity (indeed, Russia’s claim to vast swathes of Ukraine leans heavily on it), and if languages had their own flags we could sidestep the whole issue.
French has the fleur De lies which, although it was a symbol of French royalty is still used on the flag of Quebec and some places in Canada identify the French language option with the flag of Quebec.
Realistically, the best option would just be a shorted abbreviation of the language in that language. Ex. Eng for English and deu for German
There is a set of ISO codes for each language, but it’s not catchy used as an icon, and are also implicitly Western-centric by virtue of using the Latin alphabet.
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?”
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.
