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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    🇬🇧 English (Traditional)
    🇺🇸 English (Simplified)

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    • fylkenny@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      🇮🇪 English (EU)

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      • stebo02@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        🇦🇺 ɥsᴉlƃuƎ

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      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Shots fired.

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        i recently got the recommendation to switch locale to ireland in order to get normal date formatting. worked very well.

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      • MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’d never know that’s English

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      🇦🇺 English (Felon)

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    • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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”.

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      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        “I inherited this government position from my father”.

        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

        🤔

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      • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Lol don’t watch the news

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      • punksnotdead@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_United_States_presidenti…

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      • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The last royal veto was in 1708, and any attempt to do so now would probably end the monarchy.

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    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      🇨🇦 English (Celeste)

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    • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      *🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿- traditional

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      • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        🇩🇪🇩🇰🇳🇴 Traditional?

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    • M137@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      🇬🇧 English (Traditional)
      🇺🇳 English (Simplified) 🇺🇲 English (Dumbified)

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    • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Except American English is the traditional. England kept fucking with their language and spelling, and now everything has 6 unnecessary vowels

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      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        en.wikipedia.org/…/American_and_British_English_s…
        en.wikipedia.org/…/American_and_British_English_s…

        Webster’s 1828 dictionary had only -or and is given much of the credit for the adoption of this form in the United States. By contrast, Johnson’s 1755 (pre-US independence and establishment) dictionary used -our for all words still so spelled in Britain (like colour), but also for words where the u has since been dropped: ambassadour, emperour, errour, governour, horrour, inferiour, mirrour, perturbatour, superiour, tenour, terrour, tremour. Johnson, unlike Webster, was not an advocate of spelling reform, but chose the spelling best derived, as he saw it, from among the variations in his sources.

        Nope.

        Although unjerk, spelling reform and standardisation is very necessary for english.
        Rejerk
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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Portuguese people clicking on the Brazilian flag to see something in Portuguese.

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    • LouSlash@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Polish people clicking on the Polish flag to see something in Polish while being in Australia:

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      • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I wonder what the Polish, Monégasque, and Indonesian folk do when they win a flag competition?

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      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Then : Kurwa!

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    • stebo02@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Duolingo does this. English is American and Portuguese is Brazilian. Doesn’t make sense.

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      • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It makes a bit of sense because Duolingo teaches you the American variety of English and Brazilian.

        But still… why?!

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  • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s my right as an American to not have extra 'U’s in my words and you’re infringing on it!

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    • PostProcess@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!?

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      • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh, and that’s pronounced “z”, not ”z”!

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      • L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I use American English for the superior compression algorithms and the more extensive import features.

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      • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Image

        Get obsoleted, King-haver (less of a burn now, coming from Loompa-land 😭)

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      • Grostleton@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        At least we don’t pronounce it “zed”

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      • Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Tell me with a straight face that the word armor needs a u

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    • stebo02@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      colour armour labour favour honour harbour

      honestly it’s just so much more fancy with -our

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Trmp sonds so mch better.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As opposed to everyone else when they have to click the US flag to get English language options

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    • TranslateErr0rs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There is no U in “Boston Tea Party” either.

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      • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Bouston Teua Puarty

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  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.”

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    • mdd@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • klu9@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Traditional English vs Simplified English. I won’t tell you which is which.

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Traditional English vs Yankee English.

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    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ah, one more way in which post-colonial America and Mao’s China are similar.

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  • NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

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    • NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?

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      • NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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
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    • SassyRamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ami: isn’t that the red cross flag?

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    • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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  • Freshparsnip@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    One of these days Trump is gonna sue the UK for speaking the American language

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    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “By presidential decree, it will no longer be called ‘American English’ and ‘British English’, it will be ‘American American’ and ‘English American’.”

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      • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The Gulf of Obliviousness

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  • epicstove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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    • LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Brit here it’s our laugauge don’t like it? Get your own instead of spelling ours wrong

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    • Grazed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Canadian here. Choosing between UK English and US English feels like choosing between an abusive father and abusive husband.

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      • nthavoc@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What’s all that aboot?

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      • Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        We are a reformed crazy dad we are trying to be part of your life but we’re still drama

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      350 million Americans, 70 million British.

      Your minority opinion is noted but outvoted, micronation.

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      • Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Colony

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      • redwattlebird@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Hmmmm yes but the average American reads at a grade 6 level, so I daresay UK beats USA there.

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  • Event_Horizon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!

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    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I thought in Aus and other international areas the Z was considered correct spelling, even though most of the rest follows British convention?

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      • Event_Horizon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How do you pronounce that word

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      • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Haben Sie schonmal von germanischen Sprachen gehört, wo ein ‘S’ duraus so wie englisches ‘Z’ klingen kann?

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  • RandoMcRanderton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We alsou have to start adding randoum U’s in places that nourmally only have O’s.

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    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nou.

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      • RandoMcRanderton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Why nout?

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  • stebo02@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    it’s worse when it’s an American flag because I’m always looking for the British one

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      British English is the OG English. They should always use that flag.

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      • Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Old English would like to have a word.

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      • stebo02@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        yeah otherwise you might as well use the Australian flag or whatever

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  • redwattlebird@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!”

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    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!”

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    • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That “meer” thing has to do with where you are in America. Same with words like “roof” or “pecan”.

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  • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Bonus points from TTS users.

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  • Biyoo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I replaced the US flag with a UK one on my website for this reason x)

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  • nthavoc@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There’s no U in color. FIGHT ME!

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  • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The whole concept of multilingual websites is foreign to Americans. There is only one language in their mind.

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why use many word when few word do.

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  • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    flagsarenotlanguages.com/…/why-flags-do-not-repre…

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The unnecessary "u"s haunt us

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ok, it’s driving me crazy.

    Who is that? The actor, not the character they’re playing.

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  • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think websites should use the English flag to mess with people

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The British, when they have to click the American flag for English, and then they see “color” without the “u”:

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  • Enzy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Speak native american!!

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  • javiwhite@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • BlackSheep@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Seeing recipes from everywhere but the US, and Americans asking to have the recipe ingredients converted “for them”. Sheesh…

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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