English = England. If it wasn't for the French, Spanish and Dutch, Americans might be able to even speak English today.
Americans = Bastardisation and woeful misuse of an original language, but everywhere/thing IN America is copied from Britain or taken from the First Nation tribes.
The language is not called Americans, it's called American English.
Can i ask a counter question - why are you being a dick?
You might wrongly think I'm American from that reply , and I might infer you're English from the unjustified American insulting thats popular from anonymous dicks on the internet from various non US countries .
Hybrid66 spends a lot of posting energy on this Borat / America trolling routine. It’s his schtick.
shareYour sentence structure is awful. It would have been better to ask, 'Why don't Americans speak English well?'
shareAmericans didn’t copy Britain. It’s more like Britain conquered and colonized this land and then forced their language, culture and religion on it after they wiped everything else out. Just like they did to everywhere else they landed.
But just because our origins came from you, it doesn’t mean you get to dictate how it evolves.
I know you're only being silly and want people to attack you for your terrible use of English, (so ha ha?) but...
Americans speak English perfectly competently. They just don't speak quite the same version of it as we do in England. Language evolves over time and the two countries have had two and a half centuries apart now to take slightly different directions in their linguistic evolutions.
There still isn't a great deal of difference though. They might fill out a form where we would fill one in or use a faucet instead of a tap, but we don't really get tripped up very often in either direction.
As a British person, I love to poke a bit of fun at Americans -- it's a national pastime -- but, really, the 'You speak slightly differently from us! Huh, huh, huh, you left the "u" out of "colour", you moron' stuff is weak, tired material.
As a British person, I love to poke a bit of fun at Americans -- it's a national pastime -- but, really, the 'You speak slightly differently from us! Huh, huh, huh, you left the "u" out of "colour", you moron' stuff is weak, tired material.
Yeah. I roll my eyes at that stuff too. Some British people get really earnest about it. 'IT'S FOOTBALL, NOT SOCCER.' 'Well, not here, it isn't.'
There was a time in this country when Rugby and Association Football were about equal in popularity. If things had gone the other way, and Rugby had become the national sport instead, we'd be calling Rugby 'football' and Association Football 'soccer'.
After all, neither north Americans nor Australians invented the word 'soccer'. We did. Right here.
But we should all unite against anyone who calls the game 'the footie'. That's clearly unacceptable.
There's a video of Kyle Walker doing a promo and they tell him to say "soccer" and the guy is trying to avoid it like it's the N-word.
shareI wonder if he'd avoid 'calcio' if he was on Italian TV. 'How many times do I have to tell you people -- IT'S FOOTBALL.'
Maybe he avoids that British football institution, Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday. Can't stop himself from yelling at Jeff Stelling on the TV screen.
Because, yeah, we do use the word here. Just not nearly as much as we use 'football'. No-one is confused by the word 'soccer' in the UK.
Also, I think this stuff is aimed at north Americans far more than at anyone else. I don't think Brits yell at Aussies. Or South Africans. Or Japanese. Or anyone else who calls it soccer. Just north Americans.
As long as people know which game you're talking about, and acknowledge that it is objectively the best sport in the world, who honestly gives a crap what they call it?
and acknowledge that it is objectively the best sport in the world,
Have you seen 'Goon' (2011)?
I haven't seen it in a long time, but I remember it being such a great film. It's quite the gem in my book, indeed.
I don't see a difference between Americans and Canadians as a European. I guess I should be weary about confusing the two because some Canadians have taken offense to that and likened it to calling Ukrainians Russian. A lot of YouTubers are Canadian (an American I watch once joked about it and he said it's because they can afford to be). I did not know until they told me.
I have always found it interesting how Canadians speak American English basically (it supposedly has some slight Scottish input from what I understand, is that what Americans mean when they laugh and claim that Canadians say aboot?), while Aussies and Kiwis speak closer to British English. I read in a book that many Canadians descend from Americans who moved there in the 19th century and that the immigration from the US to Canada in that time was bigger than immigration from Europe to the US.
Our spelling is closer to UK English. But we're also part of the commonwealth so we have the Queen on our money. Even the province I'm from contains the Union Jack on one of the corners. Generally our accents are close to the US, but in terms of mentality we think completely different. Americans look at Europe as if it's one country, whereas Canadians know it's a continent and can actually name the countries located inside. Sometimes we even know more about the US than they do.
shareI read that there are isolated parts in Eastern Canada where they speak something that resembles a Transatlantic accent. The dialects of Western Canada sound much closer to American English and that's because it was settled relatively late up until the 1890's as a melting pot and many Americans came. Because Canada belonged to Britain for so long, one could think that the dialects would sound closer to British English.
Culturally and politically, Canada is probably a bit closer to Europe. National healthcare, more restrictive gun laws, no school shootings and a bit more to the Left than the US. There are all the Democrat American celebrities who always threaten to move there if Trump becomes president, lol.
We have a bunch of different accents here. 1/4 of us speak French, some of the east coast sound Irish while other say "aboat" instead of "about".
But yeah, in terms of politics, that's where we're the closest to Europeans. Americans are the only ones who think they have freedom.
Xenophobe detected
shareFirst off, they call our form of English, "North American English." It's very close to "British English," but there are minor differences.
Second, you apparently have never listened to low-class, Cockney Brits talk. They bastardize the English language just as badly as some of our rednecks and black people do over here!
But please, do go on. We all enjoy it when a clown rolls into town with a one-man circus act.
The main difference between American and British English is that American and most Canadian dialects are rhotic, while modern British English dialects for the most part are not. There are still parts of England where they have a rhotic speech like Devon and Somerset.
Old, Traditional British Accents (South East)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5S8JR4eJAXA
Old, Traditional British Accents (South West)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9aTdZq7iB6w
Sometimes the English do not understand each other!
Nicolas Doesn't Understand The West Country Accent | Hot Fuzz | Screen Bites
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hs-rgvkRfwc