>non Americans typing color
>non Americans typing catalog
>non Americans using 'z' when they should be using 's'
STOP that. Do NOT encourage them. The language should never ever have been split.
webster did nothing wrong
>>53026365
i use color and 's', try to stop me faggot
>>53026343
nice pepe
but it says [catalog] right above your facebook frog
>>53026396
You're basically illiterate
>>53026343
Colour me unsurprised that they got the spelling of catalogue wrong.
>>53026492
>catalogue
hahaha fucking frenchies
We don't need encouragement. That's how we spell, regardless.
We use catalog but still have tongue
We use theater but still have massacre
What use color but still have glamour
We use realize but still have enterprise
Did all the changes happen in one go or over time? Was there any particular reason for it?
>>53026765
dhis iz hau wii shud spel nau
>>53026805
We din du nuf fin
In a few years it will be considered racist to speak anything other than AAVE or Spanish here.
>>53026791
As I understand it, both spellings were used in Britain and the US and in the early 1800s, it was standardized one way in Britain and the other way in the US.
>tfw the world standardized is spelled differently
American versions of the words look and sound much better.
>>53026791
http://www.merriam-webster.com/about-us/spelling-reform
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences
>mfw someone uses "artifact" instead of "artefact".
>>53026870
Shur hope you want sum aloominum, Eyevan
You do realise we use both The Queen's British and The Language of Freedom mixed as we learn one in school and one from entertainment.
>>53026343
>Australian Labor Party
>>53026791
It was all Webster, though the less Frenched up spellings existed before him. He wanted other changes like changing 'tongue' to 'tung', but they never caught on.
>>53026343
That's a crazy green colored Pepe, friend.
>>53026948
It's a shame, because the spelling reforms were well-intentioned. Instead, Commonwealth countries decided to use British English for no other reason but to be edgy.
>>53027019
Almost like they had more ties to the UK than the USA isn't it?
>>53027036
Exactly my point.
>>53026492
cuckalogue
>>53027019
The British reformed their spelling with the right intentions too. You just had to be the rebellious one, as you've always been.
>>53027074
>You just had to be the rebellious one, as you've always been.
Even though """American""" spellings originated in Britain?
>>53027019
>It's a shame, because the spelling reforms were well-intentioned.
Good intentions doesn't mean much when the implementation is retarded. Contemporary American spelling is just a remnant of what was intended, there were hundreds of changes so stupid even Americans dropped most of them.
Britcucks haven't been able to maintain their own language since 1066 so someone has to at least repair the phonetic rot.
>>53027103
NO U!
...in your spelling
>>53027036
innit
>>53027116
I agree with the american
>>53027110
Thats a bit rude. I didnt ask for this
>>53027116
>Britcucks.
What the fuck does English spelling have to do with the Welsh or Scottish?
>>53026343
'-ize' in BE is officially acceptable and objectively better. If you're going to complain about that then you would have to complain about 'connection' instead of 'connexion' too. 'Color' though is just uglier, and the supposedly more phonetic spelling is pointless since the whole English orthography is phonetically fucked anyway, to point that it makes no difference.
Shopping plaza near my house
JUST
>>53027019
They didn't go far enough to warrant switching to them. If they did we would be writing like this >>53026805
>>53027219
webster is turning in his grave
>>53027141
NU U BRU
(in your spelling)
>>53027141
Hould on lette mee use spell cheque to cee if my repleye is courrect because I use a phonetique systemme that bearlie folloughs the phonetique principalle upon whiche alphabettes were creyated.
>>53027156
From when English was a Saxon tongue it's totally incomprehensible. Looks like Icelandic
The Normans reformed the language for the better. Merci France, Je T'aime Toi.
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words04/history/paternoster.html
>>53027219
whats the difference between super target and target?
>>53027283
I think it has a bigger grocery section, also has a garden center
>>53027219
>chili
>americans say yor instead of your
>american say yo instead of you
>americans say or instead of our
ENOUGH
>>53026343
english is such a mutt language that it doesn't matter
when you combine german, french, and latin you get a disorderly result. we simplified things because it makes sense.
>>53027278
Thanks for the U's lad. I know English is a learning process, but you're doing well.
>>53027255
Maori Pride Worldwide
>>53027313
>>american say yo instead of you
>>53027282
ok. same for german.
>>53027180
Well for one RP is literally a French accent without nasal vowels.
>>53027347
NOAENK NO
>>53027283
sells more food I think
>>53027341
This has to end NOW
>>53027360
What are you trying to say?
>>53027333
Defense mechanism #69: deflection
>>53027377
Had a bit of an autism tic
Will not happen again
>>53027370
i don't even notice when people use different forms of spelling. it's not like i go "huh, must be a britcuck on the other end" when someone texts me colour instead of color
>>53027219
It gets worse.................
>>53027282
>when English was a Saxon tongue it's totally incomprehensible.
>The Normans reformed the language for the better.
What? Are you seriously claiming Middle English is better than Old English because it sounded more like the modern English that is based on it?
>>53027449
What a bunch of cucks
>>53027449
>>53027401
Okay Cody.
Fallacy List 420 Blaze It: >>53027278
Over Exaggeration.
English has been bastardized to the point of defying grammatical convention for centuries. Your attempt at reforming it in one area, whilst clearly having glaring exceptions as
>>53026765
pointed out, is inconsistent and makes no real difference. I prefer the U's after an O. For stylistic reasons, it looks nicer.
>>53027450
French influence objectively improved the Language. It's not a matter of how it sounds today, it's the depth and new vocabulary we got from having the influence of a Romance language.
>the britcucks debating who has the worst spelling
This is pretty great.
>>53027313
>Australians say sample instead of sahple
>Australians say dance instead of dahnce
>>53027527
I don't mind seeing -our
The only think I can't get past is -re as in centre
I just dunno about that one
>>53027019
We don't pronounce Mum as "mom" you twit.
>>53027568
>no zealanders say jandals instead of thongs
>>53027591
When did i claim you did or even alluded to it?
>>53027569
To be honest, we've imported some Americanisms here too.
Skeptic is an example where it looks much better.
For -re it just appears normal to me. I suppose it's just a matter of usage. I do know that with spellchecks set to American English by default, we're going to have a lot of teenagers using more Americanised terms in the future
>>53027610
>Confusing jandals with the word for G-strings
>>53027644
I apologize.
>>53026343
Agree. I want to sound posh and those damn americans make me sound like a tv ad
>>53027610
Do you unironically call your beach footwear the same word as is used for lingerie?
KEK
Jandals are Japanese Sandals. Where did Thong originate? Did someone put their feet into a Aussie girls vagina on the beach and it caught on?
>American 'punctuation'
Not even once.
>>53027659
It's fine man. Cultural ties throughout the anglosphere are a lot stronger than some petty spelling differences anyways <3
>>53027653
>>53027683
well, the thong goes between the arsecheeks and the thong goes between the toes, it only makes sense
>I use the Oxford comma
>mfw I see people not use the Oxford comma
>there are people on this thread RIGHT NOW defending english spelling
Why even use letters if you're not going to write phonetically
>>53027714
You are alright lad
I only met one Kiwi in my life but he was fun to hang out with
>>53027283
super targets are bigger
>>53027527
>still defending solely what looks "nice" and muh tradition.
It "looks nice" because we're used to it you dumb maori. That's subjective.
Phonetic reform is a gradual integration thing unless a monarch decrees it like that based Korean emperor whob created Hangul because of people's resistance and reluctance to change, especially linguistic change. We'd be using logograms if fucks like you were always in charge.
Words should be spelled as sounded because that's literally the entire point of the concept of the alphabet. It's like our retarded measurement system (which should be phased out) versus the metric system.
How do Americans pronounce OURS since they pronounce OUR as ARE?
>>53027765
ares
>>53027765
our = ow-er
are = r
>>53027765
It depends on WHEN ours is in the sentence and the emphasis being used.
>>53027783
The Greek God of spelling mistakes
>>53027802
Could you please provide an example?
>>53027802
Yeah
"I took our dog for a walk" - I would pronounce like "are"
"That dog is ours" - I would pronounce like "hours"
>>53027751
To be fair though >>53027692 is right.
>>53027838
Now I see, thank you guys
>>53027692
I always thought the American singular quotation marks within the double quotation marks made more sense.
>>53027569
Centre is probably less weird to us given that we don't pronounce the r in '-er' words anyway. Both variants are just a cumbersome way to spell the schwa sound.
>>53027927
That makes sense, never though of it that way
>>53026450
Color.
>>53028118
ЗATКHИCЬ MУДAК
What's Canadas position in this whole mess?
>>53028129
Color.
Even android SDK has a Color class.
>>53028159
They have both options to choose from. Alternatively they can write in Mandarin.
>>53028210
пpивiт мyдaк
>>53028159
Everything official is UK spelling, and the college I went to made a point to tell us to use UK spelling. But in normal writing people use both.
Do you see an American flag or united cuckdom flag when a language select pops up
I see more and more american flag
>Australia had a semi-successful spelling reform for 12 years
Interdasting
>>53028346
i see british flag usually
>aluminum
>>53028246
Пишoв ты нaхyй. Coгoя.
Language changes, lads. Writing's job is to reflect speech, that's it. A lot of American spelling attempts to reconcile spelling with pronunciation thanks to based Samuel Johnson, while British English clings desperately to muh heritage and muh tradition.
Take 'color'. It's closer to the original Latin, and more economical. Also more symmetrical and I'd say sweeter on the eye. There's none of that horrible French influence in.
For God's sake, the OED themselves spell 'organize' and 'recognize' like that.
>>53028357
disgusting
>>53028357
could you imagine the platinum-quality shitposting we would see if Australians embraced these changes?
>>53028906
>more economical
r u srs u want this?
>>53028959
>AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY
>>53028357
I think the Australian Republican movement should adopt these pioneering changes, to finally break free of their colonial shackles.
If anything will legitimize the movement, it will be this. With a New Language For A New Australia, how could anyone possibly argue otherwise?
>>53028357
I don't see anything wrong with this, it would only make english spelling a bit less retarded
>>53028959
Parsimony is a good thing. 'srs' will never replace 'serious' (probably) but one day we'll all be using forms that seem stupid to us now
