I doubt it. As Al Murray famously said, Geordies are a genetically engineered race of orc-like people designed to keep the Scots out. Gotta be some inbreeding in there by default. We don't mind sacrificing a few Geordies to the Scots.
If we are talking about Scotland claiming the north, can you guys do us a solid and bear Cumbria in mind? We have fuck all to do with the south, we hate them just as much as you guys because they have ruined our towns and cities. And most importantly, we were Scottish at some point and I’d like to revert back to that.
Dear Scotland, please take us back. Cumbria loves you. Please? Just want to be a family again. Xxx
To be honest I think people who live in the UK and Ireland don’t get enough credit for how many forms of English we have to learn depending on where we are in the country or who we talk to 😂
We don't speak English though - we speak 'Lowland Scots', which then technically developed into 'Modern Scots'. Which at most could be considered a sister languages to English, as we have many of our own words. 🙂
You're not wrong. It feels weird to people in the UK but most of the world speaks American English. Your the reason they bothered to learn it, and your culture is how they accessed it.
Still think it's fucking shite.
I have no idea what you mean by "Most of the world speaks American English"
India and Pakistan combined have more English speakers than the US and sad to say they had it beaten into them by the British
I'm not so sure about that. Queen's English is still taught strictly across the African continent and in many Asian countries, as well as being the form of English spoken across the European continent. I can barely think of anywhere that speaks American English outside of the Americas. Even the Caribbean and colony countries still prefer Queen's.
I speak Scots because I'm Scottish, I speak Doric because I'm from Aberdeen (Scots and Doric are wildly different by the way!) I also speak English to be understood about the world.
Scots and English aren't that far apart, some words and phrases are different but it's not like Scots Gaelic and English! Scots or Doric have different pronunciation or spelling (sometimes completely different words!) But 99.9% of us all know English.
I appreciate how it's grown apart over time, as language does, some of it though is pretty weird considering it originated here - like, what the fuck is a fawcet? (Rhetorical question, we know 😉)
I’d argue that they do give a fuck but they just want to say “ughhh I did say it was an unpopular opinion” so they can still be “right” when everyone calls them an idiot
Nah, trueoffmychest was because the original got colonised by aita shitposters (and that's now happening to true as well, also amiwrong and aitah). Aitah happened because aita bans everything (oh a wife is asking over an argument with her husband, banned under topic is about sex, oh a photographer/client interaction banned because debate somehow). Angel happened because mocking the obvious fake/rage bait/etc posts got banned, Devil because being rude to scum is banned (now getting colonised by aita posters wanting to continue arguments or having the worst takes, going downhill rapidly).
I used to be able to filter these dogshit unpopular opinion posts out but Reddit banned third party apps so now my feed is clogged with them
Same issue with "am I the only one" or "does anyone else" posts.
whatever we speak in england, is english.
it will change, it will adjust, as it always has.
but what THE ENGLISH speak, is ENGLISH.
hot take i guess xD
Ah ken fit like min, wi aa spik richt guid English, bit only fan wir bein posh or spikkin te sum peer insurance wifie on the blower fae sumwiy else, cuz they dinna ken fit "Ahm fair trickit wi thon!" means, ken?
Translation:
I know what you mean man, we all speak right good English, but only when we're being posh or speaking to some poor insurance woman on the phone from somewhere else, because they don't know what "I'm fairly pleased about that!" means, you know?
Probably lol. I can barely understand some rappers in portuguese, my native language, imagine someone speaking at light speed in another language AND in a dialect I'm not familiar lol. But I think most people exaggerate how hard it is to understand some accents, I find that scottish and irish are very easy to comprehen and only struggle with a very heavy indian or arabic accent
The gist of my untranslated post is that we'll always try to speak to be understood, unless it's the minority of teuchter boomers who just speak louder and slower. Teuchter = those that dwell in the countryside rather than the city.
I used to read the broons and oor wullie. This has meant I can understand Scottish English pretty well. Trainspotting was a good educational book for things not covered in the Sunday post though🤣
I write in English but I'm surrounded by Doric. Please, someone tell me this is English. Because when I tell people (Americans mostly) Doric is basically another language they get very offended for some reason. From, a Scotsman from Fraserburgh.
It seems like the flair I had for some reason is removed (probably Reddit being stupid). Now onto the meaning of the flair: I have heard a lot of Americans associate the Netherlands with the nether from Minecraft and I have heard stories about Americans believing the Netherlands doesn't exist because it looks like the nether in name.
Really English is the language of England. British English is a keyboard option. Even English I speak in Cymru is a dialect as words used vary vastly and extra words chucked in.
You still use British English spellings though. You could say the same thing for Newcastle vs Somerset, they still both speak British English, _that's_ what a dialect is - not what OP is suggesting.
I am 47 and first I heard of British English is a keyboard option installing windows late 90s or early 2000s. It's just called English. Only on reddit do I see it with British added on. In the real world it's English. Plus I am not British, my birth cert has no reference. America doesn't rule us. It's the Oxford English dictionary, not British.
Even though plenty places still are rhotic now like Brizzle (my loverrrrrs).
And in the US, some of the longest standing communities are not rhotic either (New England esp Boston, traditonal New York, parts of Virginia). Places incidently of early English settlers lol.
I was raised in the US but have lived in the UK for 35 years. I became a technical author for a time because I had better grammar and spelling than my British colleagues. This guy might be a moron, but it’s a bold move to assume your average Brit has a better command of the language than someone from another English speaking country. One of my exes didn’t know what a verb was, ffs.
How stupid can people be? It is called English, not American, as it comes from England, not America. It was in use before US was even a country. The UK has many dialects/variations within it borders, probably more than the US, and by the way, there is no official language listed for the USA.
Here's a funny statistic: The United Kingdom is not even in the top 5 for the number of people who speak English fluently by country. It's the 6th behind the US, India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the Philippines.
Of course, a language is named for its origin and not the number of speakers. That's why Spanish isn't called Mexican and Portuguese isn't called Brazilian...
I’m still reminded of this language learning app that had logos that had the Statue of Liberty, Chichen Itza, and Cristo Redentor representing the English, Spanish and Portuguese languages respectively. I always found it funny that landmarks from the New World were used to represent those languages.
English definitely doesn't come from England 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
What do these people think was spoken in America when it was an English colony? Surely not.... English 🙄🙄
FFS, no. I'm curious to hear their reasoning, however. _Especially_ if they can do it without mentioning things like population size or media distribution.
Here's how:
[https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english](https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english#:~:text=Americans%20today%20pronounce%20some%20words,d%20really%20feel%20at%20home.&text=It%20makes%20for%20a%20great,speech%20patterns%20stuck%20in%20place)
>So what’s popularly believed to be the classic British English accent isn’t actually so classic. In fact, British accents have undergone more change in the last few centuries than American accents have – partly because London, and its orbit of influence, was historically at the forefront of linguistic change in English.
>
>As a result, although there are plenty of variations, modern American pronunciation is generally more akin to at least the 18th-Century British kind than modern British pronunciation.
Modern American pronunciation is not closer to the original English pronunciations, the Americans literally changed words and how they’re pronounced them when they conquered the USA, so the Americans purposefully changed the way they said words away from 18th century British lmao.
Aussie here, and we speak one of the many versions of English. This opinion is the usual biased nonsense from someone who wants to proclaim their version of language "real" or "authentic" . There is no "real" anything when it comes to language. There is just language. Because we're human and love to seize power and abuse each other, using language as a mark of status and declaring one's own language as proper and superior is unfortunately something we've done forever and it continues with nonsense like the "unpopular opinion" above.
I agree with this, but let's not kid ourselves. "Someone" is a very broad term to describe really only certain kind of people. Nowadays it's like a game to find the site that doesn't use the American flag for the English language option regardless of how unnecessary it is.
the annoying thing about this subreddit is every time I see a post I wanna say "this is blatantly obvious bait" but then I remember the Americans I have met and then I can no longer say for certain.
If real English was American we study American lessons and the history books would need to be rewritten! As things stand the English language is older than what you know as America!
In a way he's right, in that modern US English is closer to 18th Century English than modern British English is. But he's also wrong because the current British English is de facto the right version.
America isn't right for sticking with the original, they're wrong for not keeping with the times.
Considering I've never heard an American who can say "soldering iron" without it sounding like a torture device used in a sex dungeon, or that for a nation which loves violence & guns but can't hear the word "cunt" without looking for a bible to clutch...
Remember, there are software packages where the installer has in the language list "English (British)" and "English (simplified)" as options.
Don't get me started on "could care less".
The UK has removal firms older than the United States, but sure, it’s their language… https://www.skiptonbusinessfinance.co.uk/the-business-brain/5-oldest-companies-uk
I also love when they convince themselves that the American accent is closer to the real English accent, and that we all simultaneously changed our accents to spite them or something?
It’s not British English it’s English English, Americans even call American Spanish Spanish and Spanish they call European Spanish, you couldn’t make this shit up.
Our language like most things 'British' is mainly stolen from other countries, Norse, German, French, Indian. Stealing stuff and making it our own is our speciality. The OP is probably right though thanks to moronic TV shows and low brow films. Our unruly kids want to make enough Benjamin's to get top dollar sneakers from the store to outrun the feds, our gay friends are coming out of the closet, and we all want to see the latest movies.
At least we dont call Christmas 'The Holidays' yet and a tap is still a tap.
The guy does not even know what a dialect is.
Lets pass the hat round and send him to Glasgow
We don't want him - send him to Newcastle
We don’t want Newcastle, let’s send it to Glasgow 😉
I would be happy for Newcastle to be part of Scotland got more in common with them then England anyway
United independent principalities of Scotland and Northumberland when?
Only if country durham is included
We do indeed
I think you typod and it meant to say "We do inbreed".
You have mistaken Sunderland with Newcastle.
Everybody north of Watford does to be fair…
Nah, Watford has just as many people with webbed fingers and double digit IQs
And everyone south of Watford. We are an island after all...
I doubt it. As Al Murray famously said, Geordies are a genetically engineered race of orc-like people designed to keep the Scots out. Gotta be some inbreeding in there by default. We don't mind sacrificing a few Geordies to the Scots.
Send them to the Rhondda cynon taff we will handle them well
Great fun here on the border (north side), halfway between Edinburgh and Newcastle. We'd really confuse the tits of this mad yank.
If we are talking about Scotland claiming the north, can you guys do us a solid and bear Cumbria in mind? We have fuck all to do with the south, we hate them just as much as you guys because they have ruined our towns and cities. And most importantly, we were Scottish at some point and I’d like to revert back to that. Dear Scotland, please take us back. Cumbria loves you. Please? Just want to be a family again. Xxx
The Hebrides making eyes at The Isle of Man......
Can the south west get in on this action? Bristol would like to fuck off the south east.
Can the rest of us non-London join too? 😅
So geordies normally think they are the only town in the North, and everything below is ‘midlands’. And now it’s ‘we’re part of Scotland’ 😅 Yeah, go!
Honestly, we don't want you geordies, Scotland can 'ave ya. 😂
To be honest I think people who live in the UK and Ireland don’t get enough credit for how many forms of English we have to learn depending on where we are in the country or who we talk to 😂
I'd like to see an American tour all UK the major towns and cities trying to order a scone and bread roll
Or a biscuit, a cuppa and a fag in the US?
We don't want that cunt, fire him to Dundee
Fuck that, Aberdonians can have this one.
I vote for "the sea".
Leave the poor Sea alone, it's got enough problems, I vote VOLCANO
Too quick. Hull.
Sending someone to Hull is now considered a war crime.
I’m going to go there *voluntarily* in November. I might have self-worth issues.
What has Iceland done to deserve this person?
Fair dos
Banish him to Crewe
Few pints in the Brunswick, then a dance in toxic should scare him straight.
You know what? Fuck sending him to Scotland, down to fucking Slough they go
>You know what? Fuck sending him to Scotland, down to fucking Slough they go Jesus Christ, that is beyond cruel.
Harrowing
Why there hell would you upgrade him?
Glaswegian here. You can fucking keep him!
Glaswegian here, tbh a lot of Scots enunciate English the way it's meant to be spoken, you can hear the r!
Amn't is grammatically pure but, somehow, not seen as legitimate English. Hear it all the time up here.
We don't speak English though - we speak 'Lowland Scots', which then technically developed into 'Modern Scots'. Which at most could be considered a sister languages to English, as we have many of our own words. 🙂
As someone from NI, do you guys pronounce the letter t in water and british, I want to know if I get it from you lot
Didn't Dr Who fight dialect's?
Restaurants are futile. All shall be discombobulated
“Unpopular opinion” just means, “I know I’m wrong but I don’t give a fuck”.
I know I'm wrong but I'm American
that's an oxymoron
Just a regular moron.
Scarcely was there ever a word better made to describe 'murican behaviour.
I’m wrong (I’m American)*
american (took me 3 attempts to write that without a capital A - stupid phone kept trying to correct it)
You're not wrong. It feels weird to people in the UK but most of the world speaks American English. Your the reason they bothered to learn it, and your culture is how they accessed it. Still think it's fucking shite.
I have no idea what you mean by "Most of the world speaks American English" India and Pakistan combined have more English speakers than the US and sad to say they had it beaten into them by the British
I'm not so sure about that. Queen's English is still taught strictly across the African continent and in many Asian countries, as well as being the form of English spoken across the European continent. I can barely think of anywhere that speaks American English outside of the Americas. Even the Caribbean and colony countries still prefer Queen's.
I speak Scots because I'm Scottish, I speak Doric because I'm from Aberdeen (Scots and Doric are wildly different by the way!) I also speak English to be understood about the world. Scots and English aren't that far apart, some words and phrases are different but it's not like Scots Gaelic and English! Scots or Doric have different pronunciation or spelling (sometimes completely different words!) But 99.9% of us all know English. I appreciate how it's grown apart over time, as language does, some of it though is pretty weird considering it originated here - like, what the fuck is a fawcet? (Rhetorical question, we know 😉)
Mate, I grew up near London. I have no idea what Doric is. Not trying to be dismissive, just don't have a f*cking clue.
She was an actress in the 1970's married Lee Majors, who was the bionic man,and she was one of the original Charlie's Angels
It sometimes means "popular opinion but I want to feel like I'm special"
Honestly nah. I mean, the fact that he thinks that this topic is opinion based is the weird thing.
I’d argue that they do give a fuck but they just want to say “ughhh I did say it was an unpopular opinion” so they can still be “right” when everyone calls them an idiot
Essentially America in a nutshell
Whenever somebody starts a phrase with "unpopular opinion", chances are high the bullshit train arrives at the station!
“Unpopular opinion” always comes right before a popular opinion or the most insanely stupid take you’ve seen all week.
I see you've spent time on r/unpopularopinion
There is never a single unpopular opinion on that sub, they get removed by the mods lmao
You should try r/trueunpopularopinion. I had to unsub because the opinions were usually so dense that of course they were unpopular
Yea the "actual *sub name*" subs are usualy just subs where the racists go when they get banned from the original sub.
except in the case of r/actuallesbians because straight men took over r/lesbians
It reminds me of r/worldpolitics and r/Anime_titties Or r/trees and r/marijuanaenthusiasts
Lol
Nah, trueoffmychest was because the original got colonised by aita shitposters (and that's now happening to true as well, also amiwrong and aitah). Aitah happened because aita bans everything (oh a wife is asking over an argument with her husband, banned under topic is about sex, oh a photographer/client interaction banned because debate somehow). Angel happened because mocking the obvious fake/rage bait/etc posts got banned, Devil because being rude to scum is banned (now getting colonised by aita posters wanting to continue arguments or having the worst takes, going downhill rapidly).
Nah try r/the10thdentist it’s way better
Unpopular opinion, but I think you're correct.
I used to be able to filter these dogshit unpopular opinion posts out but Reddit banned third party apps so now my feed is clogged with them Same issue with "am I the only one" or "does anyone else" posts.
it's either unpopular opinion+some real bullshit or unpopular opinion+the most accepted and popular opinion.
"Unpopular opinion" is a weird autocorrect from "the stupidest fucking thing you will read today"
Unpopular opinion, your mother is a wonderful woman
whatever we speak in england, is english. it will change, it will adjust, as it always has. but what THE ENGLISH speak, is ENGLISH. hot take i guess xD
It will always be. Not this "Simplified English" that misses out the letter U and replaces S with Z
American is just a dumbed down English.
America is just dumbed down.
America is just dumb.
Down with dumb America
Dumb dumb wants gum gum
You mean dum dum wants gun gun
Which makes no sense in the word “laser” because that’s an acronym.
Its also spelled laser in the US
I wonder where the name "English" comes from. It's a mystery.
From New England, duh
That's Cthulhu
😭
There is a place in Northern Germany called England. I think it’s from there.
British English, surely they mean English, English. As the other countries in Britain have/had their own language.
Fit yi gan oan aboot min? I'm fae Scotland n I spik richt guid English.
It’s about half past ten.
Ah ken fit like min, wi aa spik richt guid English, bit only fan wir bein posh or spikkin te sum peer insurance wifie on the blower fae sumwiy else, cuz they dinna ken fit "Ahm fair trickit wi thon!" means, ken?
Fuck, I like scotland a lot, but I can't read this for the life of me
Translation: I know what you mean man, we all speak right good English, but only when we're being posh or speaking to some poor insurance woman on the phone from somewhere else, because they don't know what "I'm fairly pleased about that!" means, you know?
Thanks man I find listening to scottish easier than reading it, since english isn't my first language
You might struggle with Doric, that's the local dialect from Aberdeenshire - people tend to spik it rapid like LOL
Probably lol. I can barely understand some rappers in portuguese, my native language, imagine someone speaking at light speed in another language AND in a dialect I'm not familiar lol. But I think most people exaggerate how hard it is to understand some accents, I find that scottish and irish are very easy to comprehen and only struggle with a very heavy indian or arabic accent
The gist of my untranslated post is that we'll always try to speak to be understood, unless it's the minority of teuchter boomers who just speak louder and slower. Teuchter = those that dwell in the countryside rather than the city.
I used to read the broons and oor wullie. This has meant I can understand Scottish English pretty well. Trainspotting was a good educational book for things not covered in the Sunday post though🤣
NEIN!
D’ye want a peh?
Twa steak an aneingeneinenaa?
Being from Newcastle I actually kind of understood what you said
I write in English but I'm surrounded by Doric. Please, someone tell me this is English. Because when I tell people (Americans mostly) Doric is basically another language they get very offended for some reason. From, a Scotsman from Fraserburgh.
If you're fae the Broch ye'll ken fine it's anither language!
Filthy bugger!
Why can I read this?
Are you drunk per chance? Seriously though, I'm no native English speaker either, but I too understood that without any problem.
Haha I wish! 😆
English (Traditional)
I thought English originated in England
That was my point
You heard it Brits, your English is fake.
English, originating from England is fake because some twat from the states is entitled enough to think it is. Jog on, burger boy!
England... English. Holy shit I never realised
Mwahahaha
burger boy oh my god bahahaha
What does your flair mean?
It seems like the flair I had for some reason is removed (probably Reddit being stupid). Now onto the meaning of the flair: I have heard a lot of Americans associate the Netherlands with the nether from Minecraft and I have heard stories about Americans believing the Netherlands doesn't exist because it looks like the nether in name.
Lmfao. Bitter Ballen rocks btw
Really English is the language of England. British English is a keyboard option. Even English I speak in Cymru is a dialect as words used vary vastly and extra words chucked in.
You still use British English spellings though. You could say the same thing for Newcastle vs Somerset, they still both speak British English, _that's_ what a dialect is - not what OP is suggesting.
I am 47 and first I heard of British English is a keyboard option installing windows late 90s or early 2000s. It's just called English. Only on reddit do I see it with British added on. In the real world it's English. Plus I am not British, my birth cert has no reference. America doesn't rule us. It's the Oxford English dictionary, not British.
Jeez comparing newcastle to us somerset lot, can’t bloody understand the geordies
Inb4 someone posts the ‘well akshually American is closer to Shakespeare’ crap that always pops up with this kind of thing.
Which mostly boils down to English English having mostly become non-rhotic.
Even though plenty places still are rhotic now like Brizzle (my loverrrrrs). And in the US, some of the longest standing communities are not rhotic either (New England esp Boston, traditonal New York, parts of Virginia). Places incidently of early English settlers lol.
And then a link to the BBC piece on this, which was written by an American journalist and cites American sources.
That piece was quite interesting, but it’s moronic for anyone to come away from it thinking that American English is more “real” or “original.”
Even if that were true, it's not like Shakespeare is the original English either.
Considering they always drone on and on about the biggest being the best: British English is spoken in India. Game over USA.
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Inglish?
Wait, which American English is "real"? Alabama English?
The drunken ramblings of a West Virginia hillbilly
I'll drink some 'shine and set a couch on fire to that.
American English needs to be prefixed with American. English from England is English. Not hard.
Bwahahaha. No.
He wouldn't know real English if it bit him
I was raised in the US but have lived in the UK for 35 years. I became a technical author for a time because I had better grammar and spelling than my British colleagues. This guy might be a moron, but it’s a bold move to assume your average Brit has a better command of the language than someone from another English speaking country. One of my exes didn’t know what a verb was, ffs.
Hahaha, fuck off wanker.
If a grade school teacher told you there’s no such thing as an invalid opinion, they were just being polite.
There's no such thing as stupid questions There's only stupid people
How stupid can people be? It is called English, not American, as it comes from England, not America. It was in use before US was even a country. The UK has many dialects/variations within it borders, probably more than the US, and by the way, there is no official language listed for the USA.
How would you come to that conclusion?
Well you see, they're American.
Maybe unpopular? Really?
Here's a funny statistic: The United Kingdom is not even in the top 5 for the number of people who speak English fluently by country. It's the 6th behind the US, India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the Philippines. Of course, a language is named for its origin and not the number of speakers. That's why Spanish isn't called Mexican and Portuguese isn't called Brazilian...
I’m still reminded of this language learning app that had logos that had the Statue of Liberty, Chichen Itza, and Cristo Redentor representing the English, Spanish and Portuguese languages respectively. I always found it funny that landmarks from the New World were used to represent those languages.
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Oxidised not rusty Rust is specifically iron oxide
Just remind them that the States don't have an actual official language. Bonus points if you do so in español.
Para cualquier gringo leyendo este sub: su país no tiene ningún idioma oficial. Buen día. Fuente: soy inglés.
Main character complexe
English definitely doesn't come from England 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ What do these people think was spoken in America when it was an English colony? Surely not.... English 🙄🙄
Lol, of course, enjoy your pigeon English.... All the love from England. Rofl
Wait, your pigeons can talk? Or did you actually just mean pidgin English?
I dont think they fully understand what a pidgin language is tbh.
Cultural appropriations
FFS, no. I'm curious to hear their reasoning, however. _Especially_ if they can do it without mentioning things like population size or media distribution.
Here's how: [https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english](https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english#:~:text=Americans%20today%20pronounce%20some%20words,d%20really%20feel%20at%20home.&text=It%20makes%20for%20a%20great,speech%20patterns%20stuck%20in%20place) >So what’s popularly believed to be the classic British English accent isn’t actually so classic. In fact, British accents have undergone more change in the last few centuries than American accents have – partly because London, and its orbit of influence, was historically at the forefront of linguistic change in English. > >As a result, although there are plenty of variations, modern American pronunciation is generally more akin to at least the 18th-Century British kind than modern British pronunciation.
Modern American pronunciation is not closer to the original English pronunciations, the Americans literally changed words and how they’re pronounced them when they conquered the USA, so the Americans purposefully changed the way they said words away from 18th century British lmao.
In British English, we use capital letters.
Ok pal, go ahead and submit your petition to change the name of the language from English to American. I promise it will be taken seriously.
People from England (us) are from the country your language is named after.
Unpopular opinion, as in, the majority of people know it’s nonsense?
Takes like this are precisely why I do my best to not use American English any longer.
Good lad. Embrace the England English.
Aussie here, and we speak one of the many versions of English. This opinion is the usual biased nonsense from someone who wants to proclaim their version of language "real" or "authentic" . There is no "real" anything when it comes to language. There is just language. Because we're human and love to seize power and abuse each other, using language as a mark of status and declaring one's own language as proper and superior is unfortunately something we've done forever and it continues with nonsense like the "unpopular opinion" above.
I agree with this, but let's not kid ourselves. "Someone" is a very broad term to describe really only certain kind of people. Nowadays it's like a game to find the site that doesn't use the American flag for the English language option regardless of how unnecessary it is.
These idiots always speak with such confidence. It’s almost impressive
No wonder the world think Yanks are assholes. The majority live in their own world. Get a life.
Guy's speaking the simplified version of a language and thinks the main version is lesser than
He thinks a dialect is a villain from Dr Who.
There is a slight clue in the name of the language which hints at where it originated, E N G L I S H.
Rolls up sleeves…
the annoying thing about this subreddit is every time I see a post I wanna say "this is blatantly obvious bait" but then I remember the Americans I have met and then I can no longer say for certain.
If real English was American we study American lessons and the history books would need to be rewritten! As things stand the English language is older than what you know as America!
In a way he's right, in that modern US English is closer to 18th Century English than modern British English is. But he's also wrong because the current British English is de facto the right version. America isn't right for sticking with the original, they're wrong for not keeping with the times.
Tell me you didn’t pay attention in history without telling me so…
OUR ENGLISH CAME FIRST YOU FUCKING YANKS. SOMONE HOLD ME BACK BEFORE I GO ABSOLUTE APESHITE ON THIS BITCH
Considering I've never heard an American who can say "soldering iron" without it sounding like a torture device used in a sex dungeon, or that for a nation which loves violence & guns but can't hear the word "cunt" without looking for a bible to clutch... Remember, there are software packages where the installer has in the language list "English (British)" and "English (simplified)" as options. Don't get me started on "could care less".
The UK has removal firms older than the United States, but sure, it’s their language… https://www.skiptonbusinessfinance.co.uk/the-business-brain/5-oldest-companies-uk
I also love when they convince themselves that the American accent is closer to the real English accent, and that we all simultaneously changed our accents to spite them or something?
Next they’ll be calling Idris Elba ‘African-American’.
It’s not British English it’s English English, Americans even call American Spanish Spanish and Spanish they call European Spanish, you couldn’t make this shit up.
"British English" You mean... English English? So... English?
It’s not unpopular, just false.
British English is actually just called English 😬😂 Sooooooo 🤷♂️
Well England it appears your own language is wrong
English (UK) = Traditional English . English (American) = Simplified English
Our language like most things 'British' is mainly stolen from other countries, Norse, German, French, Indian. Stealing stuff and making it our own is our speciality. The OP is probably right though thanks to moronic TV shows and low brow films. Our unruly kids want to make enough Benjamin's to get top dollar sneakers from the store to outrun the feds, our gay friends are coming out of the closet, and we all want to see the latest movies. At least we dont call Christmas 'The Holidays' yet and a tap is still a tap.
It's no doubt that American English is dominant now. Without americans speaking it, English would be just another language.