Seeing recipes from everywhere but the US, and Americans asking to have the recipe ingredients converted “for them”. Sheesh…
Speak American
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BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
Yeah, but it’s not obvious how many galoshes of diced onion I need when it says 100g.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Portuguese people clicking on the Brazilian flag to see something in Portuguese.
LouSlash@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Polish people clicking on the Polish flag to see something in Polish while being in Australia:
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I wonder what the Polish, Monégasque, and Indonesian folk do when they win a flag competition?
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Duolingo does this. English is American and Portuguese is Brazilian. Doesn’t make sense.
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 day ago
It makes a bit of sense because Duolingo teaches you the American variety of English and Brazilian.
But still… why?!
epicstove@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
When I was visiting Paris, a tour bus we got on had a audio guide, the languages were all labeled with national flags.
English -> UK flag French -> flag of France Spanish -> Flag of Spain Portuguese -> Flag of Brazil
Even in Europe Portugal plays second fiddle for it’s own language
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Brazil became such a cultural powerhouse, almost anyone in the world would recognize its flag. So it makes sense. But it’s funny because only Portuguese speakers would need to recognize the flag on that tour.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Yes, but the guys who made the guide (I mean the developers who assigned each audio track a flag, not the ones recording the audio) might not. I guess that might not even been developed in France and nobody cared enough to fix the bug.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
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 use with them.
If you’re making a piece of software and you want it ported to many languages, just use text to represent the language.
Dicska@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Bonus points from TTS users.
kamen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Traditional English vs Simplified English. I won’t tell you which is which.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 day ago
Traditional English vs Yankee English.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Ah, one more way in which post-colonial America and Mao’s China are similar.
Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Brit here it’s our laugauge don’t like it? Get your own instead of spelling ours wrong
Grazed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Canadian here. Choosing between UK English and US English feels like choosing between an abusive father and abusive husband.
nthavoc@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
What’s all that aboot?
Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
We are a reformed crazy dad we are trying to be part of your life but we’re still drama
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 20 hours ago
350 million Americans, 70 million British.
Your minority opinion is noted but outvoted, micronation.
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It’s my right as an American to not have extra 'U’s in my words and you’re infringing on it!
PostProcess@lemmy.world 1 day 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!?
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 day ago
Oh, and that’s pronounced “z”, not ”z”!
L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I use American English for the superior compression algorithms and the more extensive import features.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Tell me with a straight face that the word armor needs a u
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
colour armour labour favour honour harbour
honestly it’s just so much more fancy with -our
FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Trmp sonds so mch better.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 day ago
As opposed to everyone else when they have to click the US flag to get English language options
TranslateErr0rs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There is no U in “Boston Tea Party” either.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Bouston Teua Puarty
Enzy@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
Speak native american!!
Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As an Aussie it really grinds my gears that office defaults to American spelling. And even after I change the dictionary to Australian or UK english it still continues to insert ‘z’ into words. It’s colonise, not colonize!
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I thought in Aus and other international areas the Z was considered correct spelling, even though most of the rest follows British convention?
Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Australia follows British conventions. However both spellings are correct and there has been a rise in ‘z’ over the past few years with American influence.
All government websites etc use British spelling.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
How do you pronounce that word
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 day ago
A tourist wanted since directions so he asked: "Sorry, do you speak American.’
My buddy who can be a purist: “I understand American but I speak English.”
mdd@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Years ago I had someone ask me where the exit to the building is. The building occupies a complete city block in NYC and there are many exits. Using the wrong exit could add 15 minutes to your walk.
I asked him where he is was going. He got flustered, said “speak American”, and walked off.
klu9@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
On Oxford Street in London, a tourist asked me for directions to Edgware.
At first puzzled by his interest in visiting far-off social housing and knife crime, I quickly realized by his accent what he actually meant and directed him to nearby Edgware Road.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The unnecessary "u"s haunt us
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
At this point point, people who speak English as second language usually go “awww, how cute, the native speakers really think this is the biggest controversy of English orthography.”
(Instead of, you know, everything.)
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Its more just the easily memable one.
Rooty@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Sobs quietly
I just want a consistent spelling system.
wewbull@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
Or in American …
The nnecessary ""s hant s.
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
I woke up screaming last night because I dreamed I went to grab my colored pencils and they said “colour” on the box
Biyoo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I replaced the US flag with a UK one on my website for this reason x)
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 10 hours ago
As an American who does web development, “You guys have multiple languages on your websites?”
redwattlebird@lemmings.world 1 day ago
The way ‘herbs’ or ‘erbs’ (as some pronounce it) drives me absolutely nuts.
Also, ‘mirror’ where it sounds like ‘meer’ drives me nuts.
I definitely prefer British English. Love reading the old Agatha Christie books. E.g. “My word!” The colonel ejaculated, “I do believe that she’s dead!”
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 day ago
In the Black Panther they talk about the “heart-shaped 'erb,” and it sounds so strange to me, I always think it should then be “'art-shaped 'erb!”
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
Wakanda is a high-tech nation hidden in the jungles of the East Riding.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I wish there were some internationally recognized symbols to represent languages as distinct entities from their countries of origin, but the idea of trying to make some seems really unpopular for some reason.
There’s other languages that have far more politically contentious flags representing them - at least all the English-speaking countries are broadly allies. Spare a thought for the Taiwanese who have to select a People’s Republic of China flag, even though the language is as much theirs as it is the PRC’s, or the large number of Russian-speaking native Ukrainians who have to select the flag of the country who’s bombing them and their families.
The notion of a country owning a language is fraught with toxicity (indeed, Russia’s claim to vast swathes of Ukraine leans heavily on it), and if languages had their own flags we could sidestep the whole issue.
epicstove@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
French has the fleur De lies which, although it was a symbol of French royalty is still used on the flag of Quebec and some places in Canada identify the French language option with the flag of Quebec.
Realistically, the best option would just be a shorted abbreviation of the language in that language. Ex. Eng for English and deu for German
skisnow@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
There is a set of ISO codes for each language, but it’s not catchy used as an icon, and are also implicitly Western-centric by virtue of using the Latin alphabet.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
it’s worse when it’s an American flag because I’m always looking for the British one
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 day ago
British English is the OG English. They should always use that flag.
Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Old English would like to have a word.
Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com 9 hours ago
Well if we want get technical it’s roots are in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
yeah otherwise you might as well use the Australian flag or whatever
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 1 day ago
One of these days Trump is gonna sue the UK for speaking the American language
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
The British, when they have to click the American flag for English, and then they see “color” without the “u”:
NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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 🏴)
RandoMcRanderton@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We alsou have to start adding randoum U’s in places that nourmally only have O’s.
nthavoc@lemmy.today 1 day ago
There’s no U in color. FIGHT ME!
moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Languages and nationalities are not a one-to-one match anyway. What would you expect from a Canadian flag? French, or English? The USA has NO official language, so that makes even less sense.
I wish people would stop trying to replace words with cute little images.
javiwhite@feddit.uk 1 day ago
As a Brit I feel like I’m going to have a cardiac arrest from cholesterol buildup every time I have to click the cheeseburger flag; so I can appreciate where they’re coming from.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 1 day ago
The whole concept of multilingual websites is foreign to Americans. There is only one language in their mind.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ok, it’s driving me crazy.
Who is that? The actor, not the character they’re playing.
Etterra@discuss.online 19 hours ago
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.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Why use many word when few word do.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I think websites should use the English flag to mess with people
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
🇬🇧 English (Traditional)
🇺🇸 English (Simplified)
fylkenny@feddit.org 1 day ago
🇮🇪 English (EU)
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
🇦🇺 ɥsᴉlƃuƎ
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Shots fired.
lime@feddit.nu 1 day ago
i recently got the recommendation to switch locale to ireland in order to get normal date formatting. worked very well.
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’d never know that’s English
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
🇦🇺 English (Felon)
yesman@lemmy.world 1 day 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”.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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
🤔
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
The last royal veto was in 1708, and any attempt to do so now would probably end the monarchy.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lol don’t watch the news
punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
…wikipedia.org/…/List_of_United_States_presidenti…
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
🇨🇦 English (Celeste)
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
*🏴- traditional
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
🇩🇪🇩🇰🇳🇴 Traditional?
M137@lemmy.world 1 day ago
🇬🇧 English (Traditional)
🇺🇳 English (Simplified) 🇺🇲 English (Dumbified)
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 18 hours 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 18 hours ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/American_and_British_English_s…
en.wikipedia.org/…/American_and_British_English_s…
Nope.
Although unjerk, spelling reform and standardisation is very necessary for english.
Rejerk
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