As opposed to everyone else when they have to click the US flag to get English language options
There is no U in “Boston Tea Party” either.
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Use the flag of Scotland and watch the absolute madness in the online threads over everything from a single Wikipedia user, to Scottish English, Succession, Brexit, and so much more in just a few minutes.
Och! Ye kennae use thir flag withut chenging thae langgage to theis.
It’s my right as an American to not have extra 'U’s in my words and you’re infringing on it!
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!?
Oh, and that’s pronounced “z”, not ”z”!
Tell me with a straight face that the word armor needs a u
The future is now, old man!
Colour is worse. No way. It is color you little shit.
Neither of those rhymes with “or” though.
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.
Get obsoleted, King-haver (less of a burn now, coming from Loompa-land 😭)
I use American English for the superior compression algorithms and the more extensive import features.
Meh, imports ale too expensive nowadays anyways.
colour armour labour favour honour harbour
honestly it’s just so much more fancy with -our
Trmp sonds so mch better.
Portuguese people clicking on the Brazilian flag to see something in Portuguese 💀
Polish people clicking on the Polish flag to see something in Polish while being in Australia:
Then : Kurwa!
*ɐʍɹnʞ
I wonder what the Polish, Monégasque, and Indonesian folk do when they win a flag competition?
High-five the group of Belgian, Chadian, and Romanian vexillologists who were also sweating profusely throughout.
Celebrate, probably 🤷
You’re right. I’m overthinking it!
Indonesian flag is just the Dutch flag with the blue part being torn out of spite
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
English (simplified) or spanglish? I’ll let americans decide which is better
The US has more native English speakers than the next 3 countries combined. England is 5th on the list. By volume alone, our way is the correct one.
There’s several people that have commented this, and it doesn’t make any sense. It’s called English cause it was invented in England, a country which still exists. There’s also a few claims we changed our language, we didn’t (Posh people created Received Pronunciation. American exceptionalism at its finest.
I wouldn’t say invented 🤓
No, you’re right… developed would be better. Stole bits from everywhere would be even better.
English is a creole that got its own army.
I also like “bastard language”, or “melting pot” will do.
There’s no U in color. FIGHT ME!
We did. Famously we lost and you got to go your own way and stop paying us taxes.
What flavour of English do you and your colourful neighbours prefer ?
The spicy kind.
now we have to add Mexican and Indian to the english language O.O
There isn’t an I either.
There’s no I in denial
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phonetically it should really be “colur”, so I think “colour” is a decent compromise
‘kulla’, or ‘kullar’ for the Americans
interesting
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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.
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’.”
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“hmm… this isn’t the right country but let’s roll the dice and see what happens”
We alsou have to start adding U’s in places that nourmally only have O’s.
Nou.
Why nout?
Because I said sou.
Speak native american!!
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?
I don’t like using country flags for languages. For one thing, not every language has a country of its own – there are 700+ languages in use today, but <200 countries. Many languages don’t even have any obvious insignia to represent them at all.
If you’re making a piece of software and you want it ported to many languages, just use text to represent the language.
Bonus points from TTS users.
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 🏴)
there is a perfectly good flag for England that people refuse to use
Well yeah, but these days, you say you’re English, you’ll get arrested and thrown in jail 😆
I think the Scots having to click on an English flag to read something would piss them off more?
Or are you suggesting having a Scottish flag that displays the site in Gaelic for that 2% of Scots that know it?
I think you’re overthinking it slightly.
- French flag represents the language called “French”
- Spanish flag represents the language called “Spanish”
- Russian flag represents the language called “Russian”
- German flag represents the language called “German”
- Portuguese flag represents the language called “Portuguese”
- Japanese flag represents the language called “Japanese”
- Korean flag represents the language called “Korean”
- Chinese flag represents the language called “Chinese”
- Italian flag represents the language called “Italian”
- But somehow, the British flag doesn’t represent a language called “British”, but rather, one called “English”, despite there existing an English flag
See? This is why we shouldn’t use flags to represent languages.
Go to Brazil, and I bet they use the Brazilian flag to represent the language they speak, not the Portuguese one.
Go to Ireland, and you’ll see they use the Irish flag to represent the English language.
In Switzerland, what flag should they use to represent Ladin?
And what about Canada? They speak two official languages.
The correct way to display languages is just their name or they ISO code. Using flags for languages is fundamentally wrong.
I feel like I’ve seen the Quebec territory flag used for “FR (Can)” which I found amusing as a US hick
Ami: isn’t that the red cross flag?
