Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity
Neon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
So much cultural imperialism in here.
Once US-Americans decide how they want a word used, they will harrass and cyber-bully everyone into using it the same way / using the same word
Boys, you need to realize that english isn’t “your” language. You don’t get to decide how others speak it.
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
It’s everyone’s language, everyone can bully each other over it. The Brits added u to a bunch of words just to fuck with us…and then misspelled tire. Just last week heard an upper class indian with more British roots give a more Americanized indian man shit for spelling it tire rather than tyre, with zero knowledge of the history.
Neon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My brother in christ, you do realize the british spelling is the original, right?
The reason you spell it differently was a conscious decision of your revolutionaries to differentiate themselves from the brits
You used the same spelling before your independence, you know that, right?
And how about “noone can bully” instead of “everyone can bully”?
Just throwing tht in the room here.
I won’t bully you for writing “recognise” just to assert your independence, you let us be us and everyone is happy, is tht a Deal?
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
No, it’s not, go learn history
Neon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The british spelling comes from the conquest of the duke of normandy and was already being standardized before your independence.
This is again such a us-centric way of thinking.
“We are so important the british chnged their entire language just to spite us”
I really don’t want to be rude when I say this, but I can’t find any better qords: please get out of your bubble. This US-centrism really annoys others.
And don’t tell people to “go learn history”. It’s just bloody rude, even if you would have been right.