American v British English..??

oh. okay. that's alright then. my bad.

 

ah...you didn't say it personally.....but as to the accuracy of the language...the fact that your americanised version of the lingo actually uses a gross inaccuracy in the very definition of the citizens of the US (and more importantly the outrage when some defines a US citizen then anything but American).....to me that speaks volumes of the evolution of the language trans-atlantic

....but it probably doesn't to an american

 

oh. hell. i'm not even bothering to discuss the evolution of language. if it works for where you are, that's that, then. hell, even within a nation you've got people who can't understand a word of another region's dialect or accent. i merely put in my point that your typical canadian, peruvian or argentinian isn't going to look kindly upon his cultural and national identity being referred to as "american" since that particular nomenclature has definitely taken on it's own host of meanings and images, many of them very negative. let the "americans" call ourselves americans. no one else is taking it.

 

yis. I am Canadian, not American. whee!

I like Canadian English the best... not dissimilar from American English except we put "u" into some words and pronounce a few things differently, pop vs soda, runners vs sneakers, bunnyhug vs hoodie.... things like that, but that's more dialect/regional stuff than truly different variants of English

 

the pop vs soda thing is in the US too..depending on where you are..

pop...soda..soda pop

 

Using the nomenclature about a speicific geological feature isn't unusual at all.

Oz, do you think that Ecuadorians are all arrogant because other nations run through the equator?

Do you think they don't realise other nations run through the equator? What about people from Niger? The river runs all the way to the atlantic.

If not your whole arument is shallow. Find something less inane to bitch about.

 

I always get a kick out of foreigners (mainly Africans and Asians) who've learned to speak English, but they use British English. I think it's too bad they didn't learn American instead. Oh well, variety is good.

 

most chinese/japs i know use american spellings.

Africans make sense with the commonwealth..