🇬🇧 English (Traditional)
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Submitted 11 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Skullgrid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Except American English is the traditional. England kept fucking with their language and spelling, and now everything has 6 unnecessary vowels
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/American_and_British_English_s…
en.wikipedia.org/…/American_and_British_English_s…Webster’s 1828 dictionary had only -or and is given much of the credit for the adoption of this form in the United States. By contrast, Johnson’s 1755 (pre-US independence and establishment) dictionary used -our for all words still so spelled in Britain (like colour), but also for words where the u has since been dropped: ambassadour, emperour, errour, governour, horrour, inferiour, mirrour, perturbatour, superiour, tenour, terrour, tremour. Johnson, unlike Webster, was not an advocate of spelling reform, but chose the spelling best derived, as he saw it, from among the variations in his sources.
Nope.
Although unjerk, spelling reform and standardisation is very necessary for english.
Rejerk
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M137@lemmy.world 11 months ago
🇬🇧 English (Traditional)
🇺🇳 English (Simplified) 🇺🇲 English (Dumbified)Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
🇨🇦 English (Celeste)
fylkenny@feddit.org 11 months ago
🇮🇪 English (EU)
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I’d never know that’s English
lime@feddit.nu 11 months ago
i recently got the recommendation to switch locale to ireland in order to get normal date formatting. worked very well.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 months ago
🇦🇺 English (Felon)
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
*🏴- traditional
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 11 months ago
🇩🇪🇩🇰🇳🇴 Traditional?
yesman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There are some English words and phrases that can’t be said in American English. Like the “I inherited this government position from my father”. Or, “Sure hope the King doesn’t veto this legislation”.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 11 months ago
The last royal veto was in 1708, and any attempt to do so now would probably end the monarchy.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“I inherited this government position from my father”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush🤔
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lol don’t watch the news
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
jwt@programming.dev 11 months ago
No visual alternatives to flags were given. (And that’s because there aren’t any. Flags will do just fine for 99,99% of the public)
Lemmisaur@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I feel like this would be a good alternative:
English
中文
Español
العربية
Français
Русский
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Portuguese people clicking on the Brazilian flag to see something in Portuguese.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Duolingo does this. English is American and Portuguese is Brazilian. Doesn’t make sense.
Scrollone@feddit.it 11 months ago
It makes a bit of sense because Duolingo teaches you the American variety of English and Brazilian.
But still… why?!
LouSlash@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Polish people clicking on the Polish flag to see something in Polish while being in Australia:
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I wonder what the Polish, Monégasque, and Indonesian folk do when they win a flag competition?
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
It’s my right as an American to not have extra 'U’s in my words and you’re infringing on it!
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
colour armour labour favour honour harbour
honestly it’s just so much more fancy with -our
FelixCress@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Trmp sonds so mch better.
PostProcess@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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!?
brown567@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
floo@retrolemmy.com 11 months ago
Oh, and that’s pronounced “z”, not ”z”!
Grostleton@lemm.ee 11 months ago
At least we don’t pronounce it “zed”
L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I use American English for the superior compression algorithms and the more extensive import features.
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Tell me with a straight face that the word armor needs a u
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I think websites should use the English flag to mess with people
Lemmisaur@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
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.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Och! Ye kennae use thir flag withut chenging thae langgage to theis.