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Topic: What grinds my gears: When websites use a UK flag for English translation

Anonymous A started this discussion 13 years ago #25,440

It should be an American flag because we have more English speakers.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #387,974

It should be the English flag because it's the English language that you retarded fuckheads stole and bastardized.

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 14 minutes later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #387,975

Deal with it, nerd.

HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #388,007

They should use the Canadian flag instead. The USA flag should represent Spanish.

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Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 hours later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #388,032

@387,974 (B)
Over the past 300 years the English language has changed more in England than it has in the United States, so if anything, you bastardized your own language. I do agree with your other sentiment though. USA is not the center of the world and it's called English for a reason, though most websites have separate buttons for UK English and American English.

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 9 hours later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #388,098

No such thing as American English - just a way of politely telling the yanks they are insular and pretty damned ignorant. As with so many things they steal the idea and claim they invented it and claim it for their own.

> It should be an American flag because we have more English speakers.

....and we were speaking it for hundreds of years before you guys were even living in log cabins. Young, and still immature, upstart.

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 4 hours later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #388,132

@previous (F)

If you could speak it there wouldn't have go be subtitles any time someone outside of one small part of london spoke.

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 3 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #388,134

@previous (G)
lolololol

Anonymous F replied with this 13 years ago, 5 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #388,136

@388,132 (G)
I think you may need to edit that so it makes sense. This the difference between us. English is my native tongue whereas to you, it is a second language, old boy!

Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 5 hours later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #388,204

By 2014, over half the US population will be Hispanic.
Also most Canadians speak French.

Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 50 minutes later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #388,209

People get upset over the most trivial things. Using the flag of either country is stupid, I like the combined US/UK flag myself.

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 13 years ago, 19 minutes later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #388,213

@388,204 (I)
> Also most Canadians speak French.
Wikipedia disagrees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Canada#Use_of_English
> In 2011, just under 21.5 million Canadians, representing 65% of the population, spoke English at home. English is the major language everywhere in Canada except Quebec, and most Canadians (85%) can speak English.

Anonymous I replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #388,215

@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)

I mean know the language.

Anonymous E replied with this 13 years ago, 18 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #388,218

@388,204 (I)
They're going to go from 17% to over 50% in less than two years? I don't think so. Don't make shit up, asshat.

Anonymous I replied with this 13 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #388,219

@previous (E)

They breed rapidly. At age 5. http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asp second kid by age 9 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,202601,00.html

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Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 13 years ago, 8 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #388,220

@388,215 (I)
Saying that most of them speak French isn't the same as saying that they can speak French, but okay.

Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 15 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #388,319

@388,032 (E)

> Over the past 300 years the English language has changed more in England than it has in the United States
Webster's Dictionary was published just over 200 years ago, I am wrong in saying this dictionary simplified quite a lot of English words to the modern day American spellings?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster's_Dictionary

(Edited 25 seconds later.)

Anonymous E replied with this 13 years ago, 3 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #388,339

@previous (K)
I didn't say we spoke the original language or that ours has not changed at all. I said that UK English has changed more over the past 300 years. American English is actually closer to the English spoken 300 years ago than UK English despite a few spelling changes we made.
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