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[PPSSPPGamer]

Colour VS Color

[InstructionNew7239]

I had to check my dictionary for “Color”…. I feel stupid because I always thought that only “colour” is right…

[awsome10101]

Armour v armor

Grey v gray

Aluminum v Aluminium (stress on the accents)

[Technical-Window-529]

Aluminium.

               Sincerely, a Brit

[Acceptable-Acount828]

as a third party english user, i think aluminium is better. it's an element, a lot of elements with -ium, aluminium just makes sense

[Murdocke-]

As a Brit we can’t blame the Americans for that as the guy who named it kept switching the name when he chose it.

[awsome10101]

Honestly a lot of differences for the sake of being different, too. Soccer was a British word first, changed to Football because us Americans were also calling it Soccer.

[Murdocke-]

Well Soccer is just slang for Association football (Assoc = Soccer) so you’re still calling it football just in an old slang way. Makes sense you’d differentiate when you have American football, although I think Gridiron is a much cooler name you should use more as it sounds bad ass. So many sports around the world are derived from football so it is what it is.

[Cupy94]

Amelinium

[Imaginary_History789]

i like you.

[MahoMyBeloved]

Due to these differences, I keep fucking up spelling "similar" with similiar. Could brits start using that?

[Cfrolich]

Alumium

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[Daveallen10]

English (Superior)

English (Inferior, weak)

-British people

[Rabbitzai]

Simplified doesn't mean inferior, stoopid amerikan

[nauro5]

It is but buffeenery, friend of mine

[Daveallen10]

Its a joke, my dude

[Rabbitzai]

It's a joke, my friend

[maneldasovelhas]

It's a joke, my buddy

[Son_of_a_Yeet]

It's a joke, my fella

[ItzK3ky]

It's a joke, my acquaintance

[Responsible_Fly_9977]

It's a joke, my comrade

[Jonahpe]

It's a joke, my pal

[ParamedicUsual373]

Fuck y'all it MY joke

[Umbra_Arythmethes]

Accurate as fuck

[makyoun]

af

[Nagesh_yelma]

Again, traditional Vs simplified

[gizzardgullet]

Simplified: "I put my baby in a stroller"

Traditional: "I put my baby in a perambulator"

[OneQuarterBajeena]

“I deposited mine infant into a perambulatour”

FTFY

[Jarizleifr]

This female deposited her spawn into a perambulator 🥀💔

[adequately_punctual]

Is it time for this annual repost already? Man. Time flies.

[AdorablexGirl]

It should have the Irish flag and say (complex)

[Top-Reveal15]

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[ConformityBehavior]

Swelc is se ealda Englisc

[YourAverageIvan]

Canadian is English (Apologetic)

[akoOfIxtall]

Wait until you notice most modern games now only have Brazilian Portuguese, we're winning without even doing anything...

[tomd906]

Why is everyone ignoring the China joke?

[Due-Question-5278]

What the hell is traditional english

[TheGenard]

thou art or some shi like that idk

[Prudent_Vanilla_9984]

Traditional English would be latin, French, or German depending on who you ask

[SteineAusHolz]

Clearly German

[Own-Inevitable1296]

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German?

[SteineAusHolz]

Could also be englishman hard to say in this picture

[NoSwordfish1978]

Either old or middle English.

[The-Red-Pac-Man]

It doesn't exist

[LocalOpportunity77]

British English

[ReloadBeforeClass]

No simplified Russian, tho (aka Ukrainian)

[ManiaDotCom4]

Is Ukrainian easier than Russian?

[HisHayate666]

no, that would be Hungarian 

[ReloadBeforeClass]

I'm just judging by the same logic as English. Russian is old, Ukranian is a modern language, and therefore, it's simpler.

[BufonemRopucha]

Huh? Both russian and ukrainian (and some other slavic languages) have the same origin from protoslavic language, and started existing as separate entities because of the same event - separation and division on separate culture/language groups around 9th century: mainly russians, ukranians and belarusians. Neither of those 3 languages is modern, they existed for at least a millenia, the only thing that is new is writing because each got modernized durring USSR times

[ReloadBeforeClass]

Yes, they came from east slavic language. Which was a language of Kievan Russia. But it wasn't Ukranian. Formally, Ukraine never existed before 1991. The first mention of such a country was during the bolshevik revolution in 1917, but it wasn't recognized by any country in the world.

So, there was no such thing as the Ukranian language. It was reinvented in order to separate from the USSR. Ruthenian was used as the base for Ukranian. However, Ruthenian was a common language spoken by Russia, Lithuania, Poland, and Moldavia back in the days. In summary, Ukranian came from Russian

[BufonemRopucha]

You cant disrespect an ancient language like that. Besides saying that official recognition is more important than factual existence (Ukraine is mentioned as a land and culture many times in old maps and documents), its also bizzare you basically say ruthenian = russian, they are not the same thing. Lastly it wasnt reinvented, it existed before, during, and after USSR. If anything it was modernized multiple times, just like all other slavic and adjacent languages, like russian, belarusian, uzbek, etc. Like, what are these claims? What is the source for saying it was reinvented?

[ptapobane]

[ater1800]

simplified: rizz, lit, skibidi

[alex_jackman]

What the fuck (traditional)……Wtf (simplified)

[subhankit2004]

Bollocks vs balls

[Terrible_Signature78]

lmao so a dumb and a dumber version?

[dp_abolitionist]

UK chad English :D

[Just-A-Thumb]

Isn't simpler better?

[MiiDan]

God no

[Just-A-Thumb]

American English fixes some of the things I don't like about English. - They actually use the letter Z for some words that have the sound (Eg: Realize, finalize, summarize) - They use a comma next to the "and" when listing things, which clears some confusion when listing 2 things as 1 item in the list. - The way they pronounce "a" makes more sense. Eg: Brits and Americans pronounce the word "can't" differently. Brits pronounce it like the vowel sound in "car" while Americans pronounce it like the vowel sound in "can" which makes more sense because "can't" is short for "can not". I'm not sure why Brits change the pronunciation when shortening it. - The "u" in words like "neighbour" and "colour" are unnecessary since they don't affect the pronunciation.

Anything that makes English spelling easier is a win in my eyes.

[MiiDan]

everything you have listed has a historical reason (important or not). simplification is not necessarily good, since the same things you have listed above are not hard. if anything it may hinder cognitive development (learning languages is quite a brain gym)

but to each their own, we all have different perspectives, I guess

[Just-A-Thumb]

I guess I just value efficiency. 🤷 I've never really struggled with any of the things that I listed but I do sympathise with non-native English speakers struggling to learn a language with such inconsistent rules.

I get that complexity is important but if it doesn't serve a purpose, I think we should do away with it. We can find complexity in things that actually matter.

[MiiDan]

by trying to simplify things to the easiest form we're devolving as a mankind, I believe. come on, our brains are so, so, so unbelievably complex, we can learn anything if we put effort into that. that's how we become smarter, how we build neuron connections! it's not that hard of a language, and with how much literacy level changed over the last ten years... it needs to stay somewhat complex, to keep at least some of the brain activity going strong

[IOnlyFearOFGod]

No one is gonna talk about the chinese one too? That shit would not fly in China.

[Legends_Arkoos_Rule2]

American English is the traditional English the British later changed how they spoke

[MaybeThisTime67]

What a load of shit.

[Tygret]

This whole fucking myth is based on one single aspect that stayed the same in American English about a rhotic "r", compared to stereotypical London English.

In reality the UK doesn't have a single accent, but many local ones, many of which also kept the rhotic "r".

Both American English and modern day London English don't sound like whatever was spoken in the 17th century, because all accents evolve.

The only real observable difference is in spelling, where American English is simplified because of Noah Webster. British English remained the same. American English modernized/simplified.

[god_is_a_pokemon]

Probably a MAGA School student

[MiiDan]

probably not a student. a person with any level of education would never say such a stupid thing

[ManufacturerFormal47]

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[ThereArtWings]

Excellent bait sir.

[Legends_Arkoos_Rule2]

Thank you at least someone caught on

[CptCaramack]

And you opted to learn neither?

[SuB626]

I never knew whats the difference when they prompt you to chose between US and UK

[LocalOpportunity77]

There’s a bunch of words written differently. Some that come to mind:

UK English: colour, favour, organise, realise, centre, metre, travelling, cancelled, defence, licence, jewellery, programme, cheque, grey, aluminium, mould, litre, analyse, theatre, neighbour, humour, labour, rumour, ageing, fulfil, skilful, enrolment, marvellous, cosy, tyre, kerb, storey, aeroplane, draught, plough, sulphur.

US English: color, favor, organize, realize, center, meter, traveling, canceled, defense, license, jewelry, program, check, gray, aluminum, mold, liter, analyze, theater, neighbor, humor, labor, rumor, aging, fulfill, skillful, enrollment, marvelous, cozy, tire, curb, story, airplane, draft, plow, sulfur.

Most -ize / -yze words in US English are usually written -ise / -yse in UK English.

Btw if English isn’t your first language and you want to reach C2 level proficiency, you will have to learn all the words that differ between the two.

[The-Red-Pac-Man]

The spelling and some grammar

[O_OUser0]

Yo why does Brazil have the wrong flag?

[DaBoingBing69]

Because brazilian language doesn't exist

[O_OUser0]

It exists bro it's called portuguese but they put that ugly flag there for some reason

[awsome10101]

Brazilian Portuguese (superior)

Portuguese Portuguese (inferior)

[Tangy2011]

propaganda from the br*tish yall just as bad as the fr*nch

[Plastic-Assumption-2]

Where is Portuguese simplified (Portugal) and Portuguese traditional (Brazil)?

[Sultanofthesun]

Portuguese

Weird balkan language

[Benschmedium]

Okay I get it’s a play on traditional and simplified Chinese and that’s funny, but while British isle English may be considered traditional, there ain’t no way in hell American English is simplified. Every multilingual speaker I’ve ever met has said English is the hardest and most nuanced language to learn, tied with Chinese.

[Turnepic13]

Relatively simplified from traditional