American English Has Become Way More Emotional Than British English - Polidicks

[QUOTE=latin_geek;40021207]Has anyone ever compiled a newspeak dictionary?[/QUOTE] No, there's only the Appendix in 1984. Really, there's not nearly enough words to use it as a functional language in the book and we'd have to make up new ones in the same consistent style, which shouldn't be that hard considering how strictly established the rules were. I like Newspeak a lot, it's such an interesting concept.

[QUOTE=Ereunity;40022860]Eventually we'll end up like the Firefly universe with everyone knowing American English and Chinese and using them interchangeably.[/QUOTE] What about the australian guy(s?)?

"British English?" - fuck off, it's just English

[QUOTE=TaniaTiger;40023482]"British English?" - fook off m8, ez juz English, prick[/QUOTE]

mock me an u iz mockin ma fam, fuckin spark u owt m8

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short). In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c." Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik emthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like fotograf" 20 persent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

[QUOTE=Simski;40022811]British accents almost universally sound more whiny and obnoxious to me than American accents.[/QUOTE] You fuckin wot m8?

[QUOTE=NoDachi;40016653]I find this doubleplus good[/QUOTE] I literally just finished reading that book.

[QUOTE=TaniaTiger;40023482]"British English?" - fuck off, it's just English[/QUOTE] There are more people in the world speaking American English than British English. What now?

[QUOTE=Hakita;40020968]"Scrub" isn't a proper sentence, because it lacks a verb. Learn to type, doctor.[/QUOTE] WRONGO! [quote]Scrub (/skrəb/) Rub (someone or something) hard so as to clean them, typically with a brush and water.[/quote] Scrub was the verb, with an implied subject [I]you[/I]. The good Doctor was telling you to find a sponge and get to work. [editline]1[/editline] P.S. "Doctor" should be capitalized in your post because you are addressing a person by his or her title. Nobody beats me at being a grammar Nazi.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;40028983]There are more people in the world speaking American English than British English. What now?[/QUOTE] The day when we can completely discard separating dialects of English by nationality will be a great day for the English language.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;40028983]There are more people in the world speaking American English than British English. What now?[/QUOTE] all that means is more people are speaking a version of english that isn't the glorious best of british english

In school, we were taught british english but pretty much everything that I read in english during my free time was basically american english. So I fucked up some words and got minus points for them in tests etc. I especially remember when I wrote "pants" when the correct answer was "trousers." And the teachers constantly nabbed at me about how I spelled "can't."

Why do americas say "soddering" when the word is soldering and "I'll write you" instead of "I'll write [B]to [/B]you" ?

[QUOTE=RoboChimp;40032186]Why do americas say "soddering" when the word is soldering and "I'll write you" instead of "I'll write [B]to [/B]you" ?[/QUOTE] convenience

crikey blimey apples 'n pears, porkie pie thames cabbie up the swannee phwooaaah eh, bloody labour eh? that is the entire cockney vocabulary in a single sentence. you are welcome. there will be a test later on today. [editline]25th March 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Simski;40022811] I generally enjoy proper English grammar however, common English courtesy and expressions, aside from when they insist on using their made up words that sound nothing like how the rest of the world pronounces the same words. Fuck your "crisps", "chips", and "fags".[/QUOTE] oh bog off you ponce.

We should just ditch the english language and go for some easy-to-spell, easy-to-write language. Or make a language and force it on every person in the world.

[QUOTE=MacaroriCheeze;40032522]We should just ditch the english language and go for some easy-to-spell, easy-to-write language. Or make a language and force it on every person in the world.[/QUOTE] they tried that with esperanto [editline]25th March 2013[/editline] who do you know speaks esperanto?

[QUOTE=MacaroriCheeze;40032522]We should just ditch the english language and go for some easy-to-spell, easy-to-write language. Or make a language and force it on every person in the world.[/QUOTE] Japanese

[QUOTE=MacaroriCheeze;40032522]We should just ditch the english language and go for some easy-to-spell, easy-to-write language. Or make a language and force it on every person in the world.[/QUOTE] basque

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;40032586]Japanese[/QUOTE] It's good without kanji.

Welp. Judging by all the dumb rating, I think it's fair to say that the British are still a very emotional people :v:

I'm American, but I think British has all the best insults. Case in point: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1leDAwjtto[/media]