Why do american say they speak "english" when they in fact speak "!
Question: are they trying to make themselves look "posh".
Answers: are they trying to make themselves look "posh".
Ooooh I like this one. I swear, they made up a new language where you hold your nose and talk nasally.
Nothing at all like it huh?
they do speak english it's just in a different accent
Nah, just keepin f*ckers on their toes.
use a condom every time
They speak English with an American accent
lol ;)
They do speak english, they just say things differenty,
XD
because this is the trademark for common words ;)
it's very much like it, there are different accents but there are in England too, i find it harder to understand a goerdie (for example) than an american...........
The Speak English because thats the name of the language. Just as the Australians and Canadians speak English.
You're right, so from now on I'll speak only English as the English speak it:
Shall we go up the apples and pears for a spot of Rosie Lee with the trouble and strife? Or shall we go down the frog and toad to the rubber dub dub for some wind and sails? Pip-pip. Blimey. Bloody 'ell. Raw-thuh! Shall I ring you on your moBILE next weekEND? Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt!
Is Shergal Farkey a common name of Englishmen?
So that mean's I'm multilingual. I can speak English, American, Australian, and Canadian (non-Quebec).
Yay it'll look good on my job resume =)
They do speak English, you can understand them cant you ?????????? or maybe not.
that's like saying africans speak "african" and mexicans speak "mexican" when in fact they do not. so what are you getting at? americans speak english, just with american accents.
No same as people in Mexico speak Spanish,
which is not the same as what is spoken in Spain!
If you are from Canada, do you speak Canada?
If you are from Brazil, do you speak Brazil?
If you are from Iraq, do you speak Iraq?
If you are from Space, your ____ed
Australian English
New Zealand English
Irish English
American English
Caribbean English
It's all English, but with a few changes here and there that's all.
It's American English.
Sorta splitting hairs here.
Canadians speak "English", too and their version of it sounds a little different.
It's basically the same language, but a slightly different version.
An American can travel to England and be able to talk with English people and get by. Our versions of "English" are close enough to understand most of the conversations...
funny guy...
because english is derived from england....and american....does not exist. its like saying people in mexico speak mexican which is nothing like spanish. thats just dumb. americans dont have english accents but they speak the english language.
American English was developing separately from a fifteenth century, so it was influenced by other languages spoken then, on a North American continent. Every use of English varies, even in USA it self...try to listen a New England guy and a guy from Alabama...major difference there. the language is influenced by dialects and accents, any language, for that matter.
I call it bastardized english. English based but altered and added to. Their spelling is the same. e.g. we spell defence - they spell the same word defense.
Look bastardized up in the dictionary and you will see what I mean.
We have to remember that English is the most widely spoken language in the world. England, Australia, Canada, America, etc. Language is a "living" thing in the sense that it evolves. New words are added, words are deleted. Variations to the English language will therefore vary from country to country in which it is spoken. By and large though people who speak English can understand others who speak English. What may be difficult to understand is the variation in dialects. We even have this difficulty in this country. I find it hard to understand some speech spoken by Birmingham people.
In general terms the Americans like to be bigger and better than anyone else. They certainly think they are.
Here's a clipping for Wikipedia.. hope it helps....
Differences between British English and American English
Main article: American and British English differences
American English and British English (BrE) differ at the levels of phonology, phonetics, vocabulary, and, to a lesser extent, grammar and orthography. The first large American dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English Language, was written by Noah Webster in 1828; Webster intended to show that the United States, which was a relatively new country at the time, spoke a different dialect from that of Britain.
Differences in grammar are relatively minor, and normally do not affect mutual intelligibility; these include, but are not limited to: different use of some verbal auxiliaries; formal (rather than notional) agreement with collective nouns; different preferences for the past forms of a few verbs (e.g. learn, burn, sneak, dive, get); different prepositions and adverbs in certain contexts (e.g. AmE in school, BrE at school); and whether or not a definite article is used in a few cases (AmE to the hospital, BrE to hospital). Often, these differences are a matter of relative preferences rather than absolute rules; and most are not stable, since the two varieties are constantly influencing each other.[20]
Differences in orthography are also trivial. Some of the forms that now serve to distinguish American from British spelling (color for colour, center for centre, traveler for traveller, etc.) were introduced by Noah Webster himself; others are due to spelling tendencies in Britain from the 17th century until the present day (e.g. -ise for -ize, programme for program, skilful for skillful, chequered for checkered, etc.), in some cases favored by the francophile tastes of 19th century Victorian England, which had little effect on AmE.[21]
The most noticeable differences between AmE and BrE are at the levels of pronunciation and vocabulary.
The way they pronounce certain words is nothing like the spelling of it:
They say a-lu-min-um it's spelt aluminium and pronounced a-lu-min-ium
Basil is baz-all they say bay-zil
Cecil sess-il they say see-saw
Oregano or-e-gan-o they say oreg-ano
What is all that about?
night-nite
tyre-tire
I could go on so yes I agree it's not exactly English.
yes it cant be English as they say sidewalk and we say pavement, they say elevator we say lift, just because we can understand it doesnt mean its the same language
Actually, we Yanks do speak English. Its just evolved in a slightly different language or dialect.
Have you talked to any Canadians, Australians or New Zealanders of late??? They have their own accent and Dialect as do Pakistanis and Indians.
Not an insult, If your and my ancestors didn't want to share the English language with the WORLD, maybe the British Empire should have stayed on their islands.
The concept of YOU as a Brit owning the copyright to the English language is Ludicrous. It's like a modern citizen of Spain complaining that Mexicans or Guatemalans not speaking proper Spanish after the Spaniards invaded the New World.
I never can understand my cousins from Canada or Lincolnshire. They are civil about it....
Yorubas speak "Yoruba"
Indians speak "Indian"
Americans in fact speak "American", that's why you can't hear them unless you open your ears wide.
Its like speaking in tongues or through the nose.
surveys conducted show that Americans speak english as it was originally, so they say they speak "true" english which is b*lox.
if english people change the way they talk in england then the changed language is "true" English, surely?