Why is this language still called English?
No offense but honestly it received its name historically, yet today England has nothing to do with it and the majority of English speaking people speak what is called American English. I even knew one guy that literally called it American like "I don't speak English, I speak American."
And all the thing is especially confusing for an unexperienced foreigner who is not all that into that historical things, and they hear "English" and wonder why it is called like that if it is mostly Americans now who speak it.
Why have they not changed its name to "American" yet?
>>55879237
>the majority of English speaking people speak what is called American English
No.
>>55879237
Because there is English and Simplified English (aka American).
They differ greatly.
>>55879237
>belaruse-ian education
Why isn't it just called the earth language considering you all speak it?
>>55879372
It should be, actually
>>55879372
This
>England and America cucked the whole world
Everytime I see articles about how "Dozens of languages are dying every year, in a few decades we down to only X languages, whereas 50 years ago we had 10x languages" I pop an Anglo boner
>>55879237
Stay based White Russia
>>55879237
It's all that """""""""""great""""""""""" britain has left.
>>55879237
>I even knew one guy that literally called it American like "I don't speak English, I speak American."
That guy must've been American.
>>55879341
Sorry Charles they teach us here Russian English, which is not English nor American.
>>55879237
>portugal
>>55879237
I agree.
'American language' sounds great.
'English' sounds gay.
>>55879697
Doesn't Duolingo represent Spanish by the Aztec temples?
Lol, the new world is the future.
>>55879788
What kind of English do they teach you in your Universities, Russia?
The solution is to learn Scots instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cENbkHS3mnY
>>55879862
I learn british Englisc
>>55879862
British of course.
>>55879301
>The United States has over 200 million people who speak English as a first language and over 30 million who speak it as a second language. The figures for the UK are 57 million and 1 million.
Don't know about other countries, but here they teach you colour, centre, metre, lift etc
>>55879937
>not always knowing scots
Get gid
>>55879237
It's not just spoken mostly in America. It's spoken throughout the former British Empire including America, and also by foreigners in other countries who wanted to learn an international language.
>>55879862
Londn iz ze kepitl of greit britn, desu
>>55879372
>>55879477
Je ne comprends pas !
When I was bacpacking I met a lot of Europeans that said they learned English through American TV shows and movies and that they had difficulty understanding English accents because of this. Feels good man
>>55879477
>and England
America, lad.
>>55881095
Honour ? Colour ? Arse ? JEJ
>>55879237
You seem like the kind of person who thinks mexican is a language
>>55881655
In a sense, it is, but only a few old people speak it.
>>55880259
>Implying there are no other English-speaking countries
>>55883589
We have the majority of first-language English speakers.
>>55879372
You should know best, Chang, that the Earth language is Chinese.
>>55881141
Sorry, Pierre. If the British empire never happened then English as the lingua Franca wouldn't be a thing today. I know you are psychologically incapable of accepting that the English have achieved anything in history but I'm afraid this is one thing they definitely did.
>>55881095
what they probably don't mention to you is that British accents are considered much more attractive and interesting
>>55883924
No, just America. Nobility spoke French in the past. Our old trains have french as second language, you can see their signs. When latin became obsolete French substituted it until the 20th century. It's mostly the influence of the US that made English so popular.
>>55879372
Globish?
>>55883770
Yeah but there are about twice as many non-US anglophones as that anon made it appear by citing only the UK. US has about 70% of worldwide native speakers.
>>55880259
>more people speak it so we all should
so, why aren't you speaking chink?
>>55891713
>chinks
>people
>want to build hot web page
>must learn americanized spellings
>>55879237
>offense
Fuck off yank
>>55879237
Does Belarus have its own language or do you speak Russian?
>>55879301
pro tip if youre esl you dont speak american or british english, you speak esl
>>55892502
not like there's much to learn, everyone knows both spellings
>>55879237
No. We study American English, but we can speak only Japanese Engurisshu.
>>55896254
which makes me confused about the meme where american english is 'simplified english'
we can speak in each other's dialects without much difficulty, i'm not talking about mimicing accent, i'm talking about word choice and spelling differences
>>55896317
it's just a meme really
>>55879237
>the majority of English speaking people speak what is called American English
This is factually incorrect
>>55896490
we know that but i think that people like >>55879313 actually believe it kek
>>55896513
so in your opinion if you write colour this way you're speaking british english?
>>55896545
Do you not know the difference between speaking and writing?
>>55896545
Could be Canadian English, Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English, Jamaican English, Indian English
Or something
>>55889426
And who put the Americans there?
>>55896638
God
Don't forget poo in loos speak British english
There's plenty of them
>>55896672
Most of europe, most of asia, most of africa, all of australia, just not either of the americas.
This so fucking much
"Spanish" should be called Mexican because I'm a huge cuck.
>>55883770
Congratulations.
