Do Americans speak English?

What is used in England now would be unegnisable years ago and that was original English.

English is just a mix of loads of other languages, and a few newer ones. That's why so many sound French or German etc.

Our language is nothing new.
 
gurusan said:
Oh come on. It's pretty much identical except for some different spellings and a few different words. I've got no problem spelling in either the American or British form.

TBH some accents in the UK are nearly incomprehensible to me, I would have thought you'd question whether they spoke English; as you can easily understand nearly all American dialects yet the same really can't be said for England.
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G-MAN2004 said:
A friend from the UK, who is at uni in the US, says she gets marked down in essays for spelling words the British way. I wouldn't have thought they'd have been that bothered about it.
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I got points taken away when I was in the British school system all the time. aluminium in chemistry, center is english class etc. I adapted and was more careful so I dint lose those points.
 
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EvilDreams said:
You might well be right but please don't expect me to take wikipedia's word for it.
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Why? Do you think Wikipedia is actually inaccurate on the matter? It's been shown to have accuracy comparable to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The argument that "anyone can edit it" is a pretty sloppy one, as the people who do edit articles generally know what they're talking about.

If you really distrust it that much then go and ask a linguist or something.
 
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They do, but it's a different... dialect?

You may as well argue that people from different counties speak different languages.
 
zhx said:
when in new york. I was asked where i was from. England was my reply. I was then posed with the question. ' Ah cool , you guys speak english over there ? ' o_0
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You should have just stared at them and told them to think about what they just said.. Then mumbled something about the american stereotype being correct.;)

monkentage said:
People who say "Hey" and "movie" should be boiled in oil tbh.
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"movie" really gets my goat to. You don't look at a photo and say what a wonderful stilly do you?:rolleyes:

You are "watching a [piece of] film", multiple images put onto a piece of film that is moving.
 
Amp34 said:
"movie" really gets my goat to. You don't look at a photo and say what a wonderful stilly do you?:rolleyes:

You are "watching a [piece of] film", multiple images put onto a piece of film that is moving.
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Only if you're actually at a cinema. If you're watching it on TV or on a computer then you're not watching a film at all. In fact, you're not even watching a film if you're at the cinema; you're merely watching a projection of the images held by the film.

Don't try to rationalize every aspect of English because you will fail :)
 
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Inquisitor said:
Only if you're actually at a cinema. If you're watching it on TV or on a computer then you're not watching a film at all. In fact, you're not even watching a film if you're at the cinema; you're merely watching a projection of the images held by the film.

Don't try to rationalize every aspect of English because you will fail :)
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Hehe, true, but it's still closer than a movie...:p
 
My portugese mate speaks with a slightly American accent. I hink he learned English by watching movies.

We might have invented it but sadly we are small but still I refuse to call our language "British English", we invented it, whatever we do is correct.
 
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Does not realy bother me generally, but one thing that really gets on my nerves is the date thing, firstlly, Americans write thier dates all messed up, as in 03/26/09, and even more annoying is that the british media seem to have adopted saying things like " it happened on july four" you meant the 4th of july you bunch of tards!!!!
 
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