American of British English?

which one do you speak/prefer?

 

American English is not English and anyone who claims otherwise is wrong and stupid

/thread

 

yes it is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences

 

What tehuber is trying to get across is that American English is a bastardisation of the intrinsic purity of the English language.

Which is fair enough, both he and I speak English much closer to that used by Britons.

 

What is British English

 

apart from the fact that all languages are bastardised forms of a previous version of the language...

also, colour and paedophiles.

 

I'm Australian. So I have to use British, like it or not.

 

I don't use neither

I use Philippine English & if I were to choose which variant of English I'd want to use, then my choice is British English either the Scottish variant or the Irish one as I'm so fascinated by their accents.

 

I speak English...I guess...

 

American. I am half American

 

Its like an accent everyone says things different. Does it really matter we will all be speaking panglish in 100years any how.

 

I speak American English or whatever the hell I speak. It's English here. Or they say it is.

 

english i think.

 

I always envisioned my self to do my thesis defense in Japanese English accent....
At least if a mispronounced a word and get berated because it, i would kindly tell them to ask a Japanese to say the same word and compare. lol

 

Well been English, I would say I speak English.
I don't really have a preference, as long as I can understand whats been said, it doesn't matter.
One thing I hate though is sms speak, its single handedly killing the english language. My facebook is full of unintelligible shite.

 

Not single handedly, it's really only killing the writing of the English language.

I'm mostly worried when I can't understand a thing being spoken, stuff like ebonics totally berates me, mostly because I can't understand a thing being said and because 90% of it is shortened words or slang. And because it's spoken by black people

 

British English, i don't like America anyhow. Japan will prevail

 

The only "American-English" word that actually bothers me is "thru" (as opposed to the British spelling: "through").
"Thru" just looks so horrible and wrong to me; even more so when it's used in a body of writing that is otherwise intelligent : /
It's like something that a young child that doesn't know how to spell properly would write.

It sort of annoys me when American-spellings aren't changed to the British spelling for the localisation of books/films/games (despite the fact that these mediums, when exported from Britain to America, are often altered to fit the American form).

 

thru   
[throo] Show IPA
–preposition, adverb, adjective
an informal, simplified spelling of through.

 

Color and Colour is what I use.