American or English
 

Alright my friends and i got into a pretty heated debate the other day about what language we speak as americans...(the english speaking ones) Is it that we speak ENGLISH....or AMERICAN, cause last i check american wasnt a language. eek:

yeah, whats up with the amrican flag symbolysing the english languagee???

i still <3 my americans though

i speak english with an american dialect

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theres no language "American"

[quote="Apocalypse | NoW":eca04]theres no language "American"[/quote:eca04]

Thats what i tell everyone, no one believes me!

English (US)
English (UK)

do canadains speak canadain?

[quote="Mr. maple":52b60]do canadains speak canadain?[/quote:52b60]

i dont think so

And Australian...

[quote="Mr. maple":bedf6]do canadains speak canadain?[/quote:bedf6]

short hand speaks homo.

[quote="Mr. maple":a74f1]do canadains speak canadain?[/quote:a74f1]

I dont know

[quote=Milla]I dont know[/quote:eaac7]

ererEhh?

This is true, you can't relate a language to one country b/c that language will spread throughout the world, and the dominate language of that particular country can vary, there is just different dialects of it

[quote=Judas]short hand speaks homo.[/quote:f9692]

ROLF. Milla, were you high when you were having this discussion? Is jibberish a language?

[quote="Bean 2":6cfcc][quote=Judas]short hand speaks homo.[/quote:6cfcc]

ROLF. Milla, were you high when you were having this discussion? Is jibberish a language?[/quote:6cfcc]
Not that i remember biggrin:

[quote=Milla][quote="Bean 2":d9b26]ROLF. Milla, were you high when you were having this discussion? Is jibberish a language?[/quote:d9b26]
Not that i remember biggrin:[/quote:d9b26]

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I speak real English! The Queens English! You chaps speak a bastardised colonial version biggrin:

& I quote from The Cruel Sea

[quote:83cdf]What a bloody ignorant way to spell harbour.[/quote:83cdf]

I don't think we can call the butchered form of language we speak English.

Someone should just call it American.

In Taiwan, everyone does believe American is a language. Canadian is a seperate language, as well as Australian and the UK.

There's English language schools here with names like "Lets Go American Language School", "American Language Center" etc.... gets rather retarded.

You should see the job ads. "Prefer north American accent, female......" bla bla. Some even say they want a white person.
Rather racist, sexist and whatever other ist you can think of.

Anyway, in conclusion, American is not a language. Though, there are enough retards out there (especially in Taiwan) believe it is.

P.S. Yes, I'm an English teacher. (No, not a retarded Taiwanese, I just live here.)

Shet yer yap! Dont be callin mah language unenglish.

[quote="Fluffy_Bunny":1eb74]I speak real English! The Queens English! You chaps speak a bastardised colonial version biggrin:[/quote:1eb74]

ROFL Bastardised colonial version rock:

English -> Australia, UK, New Zealand, Canada(?)
American English -> US

Canada's version of English is equally/more fooked than the American version. Blame the frogs in Quebec.

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[quote="Mr. maple":cab2e]do canadains speak canadain?[/quote:cab2e]

Whats is a Canadain?

my profile, ignorance of alot of americans

we are american. we dont have moderation.

American English is just a dumbed down version of British English. Canada's is mroe similar to Britians but we stil change like realise to realize and so on.

So it is technically English not American

An easier version of it yes.

America has no official language or so somebody told me last week, I don't know if it's true.

Spanish will be more widely spoken in about 15 years in america. close the border and set up snipers and it wont be.

English is a language, of which Americans, Canadians, Brits, New Zealanders, Aussies, etc. speak a dialect of... We all speak the same language just a different version...

If 'American' was a language, then would it not have to be further devided into local "languages", when i hear someone from Louisiana speak, it sounds very different than someone from Boston, or Jersy even...

so this whole thing is about accents.

[quote="@/\/G3L":06e3a]so this whole thing is about accents.[/quote:06e3a]

and colloquialisms... and in extreme cases patois...

favourite > favorite

it just looks so stupid without the u.

realise > realize as well

I dont think the american version of english really incorperates silent letters that much either, just seems to be a "spell it how you say it" line of thinking.

Only stupid niggers use U's.

An easier version of English.