Portuguese people clicking on the Brazilian flag to see something in Portuguese.
Speak American
Submitted 3 weeks ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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NONE_dc@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
LouSlash@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Polish people clicking on the Polish flag to see something in Polish while being in Australia:
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I wonder what the Polish, Monégasque, and Indonesian folk do when they win a flag competition?
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Duolingo does this. English is American and Portuguese is Brazilian. Doesn’t make sense.
Scrollone@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
It makes a bit of sense because Duolingo teaches you the American variety of English and Brazilian.
But still… why?!
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Oh, and that’s pronounced “z”, not ”z”!
L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I use American English for the superior compression algorithms and the more extensive import features.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Tell me with a straight face that the word armor needs a u
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
colour armour labour favour honour harbour
honestly it’s just so much more fancy with -our
FelixCress@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Trmp sonds so mch better.
Taleya@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
As opposed to everyone else when they have to click the US flag to get English language options
TranslateErr0rs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There is no U in “Boston Tea Party” either.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Bouston Teua Puarty
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
kamen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Traditional English vs Simplified English. I won’t tell you which is which.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Traditional English vs Yankee English.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Ah, one more way in which post-colonial America and Mao’s China are similar.
epicstove@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 🏴)
NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I think the Scots having to click on an English flag to read something would piss them off more?
Or are you suggesting having a Scottish flag that displays the site in Gaelic for that 2% of Scots that know it?
NateNate60@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think you’re overthinking it slightly.
- French flag represents the language called "French"
- Spanish flag represents the language called "Spanish"
- Russian flag represents the language called "Russian"
- German flag represents the language called "German"
- Portuguese flag represents the language called "Portuguese"
- Japanese flag represents the language called "Japanese"
- Korean flag represents the language called "Korean"
- Chinese flag represents the language called "Chinese"
- Italian flag represents the language called "Italian"
- But somehow, the British flag doesn’t represent a language called “British”, but rather, one called “English”, despite there existing an English flag
SassyRamen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ami: isn’t that the red cross flag?
Objection@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
there is a perfectly good flag for England that people refuse to use
Well yeah, but these days, you say you’re English, you’ll get arrested and thrown in jail
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
One of these days Trump is gonna sue the UK for speaking the American language
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
“By presidential decree, it will no longer be called ‘American English’ and ‘British English’, it will be ‘American American’ and ‘English American’.”
Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Brit here it’s our laugauge don’t like it? Get your own instead of spelling ours wrong
Grazed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Canadian here. Choosing between UK English and US English feels like choosing between an abusive father and abusive husband.
nthavoc@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
What’s all that aboot?
Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We are a reformed crazy dad we are trying to be part of your life but we’re still drama
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
350 million Americans, 70 million British.
Your minority opinion is noted but outvoted, micronation.
redwattlebird@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Hmmmm yes but the average American reads at a grade 6 level, so I daresay UK beats USA there.
Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
How do you pronounce that word
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Haben Sie schonmal von germanischen Sprachen gehört, wo ein ‘S’ duraus so wie englisches ‘Z’ klingen kann?
RandoMcRanderton@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We alsou have to start adding randoum U’s in places that nourmally only have O’s.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
it’s worse when it’s an American flag because I’m always looking for the British one
Scrollone@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
British English is the OG English. They should always use that flag.
Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Old English would like to have a word.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
yeah otherwise you might as well use the Australian flag or whatever
redwattlebird@lemmings.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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!”
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That “meer” thing has to do with where you are in America. Same with words like “roof” or “pecan”.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Bonus points from TTS users.
Biyoo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I replaced the US flag with a UK one on my website for this reason x)
nthavoc@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
There’s no U in color. FIGHT ME!
Thorry84@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
The whole concept of multilingual websites is foreign to Americans. There is only one language in their mind.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Why use many word when few word do.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The unnecessary "u"s haunt us
AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ok, it’s driving me crazy.
Who is that? The actor, not the character they’re playing.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think websites should use the English flag to mess with people
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The British, when they have to click the American flag for English, and then they see “color” without the “u”:
Enzy@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Speak native american!!
javiwhite@feddit.uk 3 weeks 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.
BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Seeing recipes from everywhere but the US, and Americans asking to have the recipe ingredients converted “for them”. Sheesh…
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks 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.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
🇬🇧 English (Traditional)
🇺🇸 English (Simplified)
fylkenny@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
🇮🇪 English (EU)
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
🇦🇺 ɥsᴉlƃuƎ
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Shots fired.
lime@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
i recently got the recommendation to switch locale to ireland in order to get normal date formatting. worked very well.
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I’d never know that’s English
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
🇦🇺 English (Felon)
yesman@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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
🤔
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lol don’t watch the news
punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
…wikipedia.org/…/List_of_United_States_presidenti…
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
The last royal veto was in 1708, and any attempt to do so now would probably end the monarchy.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
🇨🇦 English (Celeste)
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
*🏴- traditional
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
🇩🇪🇩🇰🇳🇴 Traditional?
M137@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
🇬🇧 English (Traditional)
🇺🇳 English (Simplified) 🇺🇲 English (Dumbified)
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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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