"English"

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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Portugese”

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I didn’t spot that!

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• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  UK : English (Traditional) US : English (Simplified)

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ours is the traditional pronunciation. You fucks changed it after we left because you didn’t like to sound like provincial rebels.

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    • MadBob@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Christ, we can’t even have a c/britishproblems without the yanks coming and sticking their oars in.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We didn’t start talking like “yeehaw partner this gas station has some skibidi rizz, no cap fanum tax!”

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  • dvlsg@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be fair, English could really use some simplification. It’s fucking bonkers.

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    • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Webster should have spelled the words the way they sounded while he was dropping all those u’s.

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• Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Aww is the empire sad they got out-empired?

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• MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You guys invented English, we perfected it.

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  • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    *butchered it

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    • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, well, y’all’rn’t doin’ anything interesting with it, so we made it better.

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  • xpinchx@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s all a bit shit tbh mate

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    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah, but it is shite

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  • Cube6392@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    took out some unnecessary letters, changed how to spell gray so everyone’s always confused about which is right. overall good stuff

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, to be fair, we did win the war, so we (in effect) conquered England, which means we took ownership of the language as spoils of war.

  I have no vested interest in that statement, but will argue vehemently in favor of it for entertainment purposes.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This disgusts me as well

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• rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ew

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