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This Forum should be recalled American not English
Why should we continue to call this langauge English when it's majority is American?
We should be encourging the plight of our language and recall it American for the benefit of majority. I have refused to state that I speak "English" but American when answering other people/forms/etc.
Call your own personal form of spoken Language whatever you (BLEEPING) well like, Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms Guest - American is great if indeed American you are. You are totally at liberty to completely ignore its origins.
What exactly do you mean by "majority" anyway? I hope you're not suggesting that Americans (ie the citizens of the United States) make up the majority of the world's native speakers of what is universally recognised as the English Language? If so I reckon you are incorrect if you tot up all other native English speakers throughout the planet. If you feel that strongly about it why not ask for a separate section to be opened up in Antimoon dedicated to the American Language. We will then have three subsections: English Other Languages American Sounds cool to me. I'm all for it. It should greatly ease the pressure in this ENGLISH thread. :-) I may pop into the American section from time to time just for a wee butchers but don't expect me to post in it. You'd be very happy with a notice which is still in the window of a store here in Central Edinburgh: "We speak English /French / German / Spanish / Italian / Dutch / American" That should make you mega happy.
The thing is that Americans don't want to rename the English language "American". The suggestion to do so always seems to be brought up by a foreigner, I've noticed. I suppose the Australians want to rename their rendition of the language "Australian"?
That's the dumbest thing I've read since "let's say BERK as a greeting"
>>The thing is that Americans don't want to rename the English language "American". The suggestion to do so always seems to be brought up by a foreigner, I've noticed. I suppose the Australians want to rename their rendition of the language "Australian"?<<
I have to agree on this one myself. While there might be some English dialects on opposite sides of the Atlantic which are not mutually crossintelligible (such as, for example, having a Yooper speak with a Tynsider perhaps), for the most part English dialects are more crossintelligible across the Atlantic on average than, say, High German dialects are with each other. Furthermore, crossintelligiblity of English dialects *within* the UK or the US may at times be worse than one's average luck with an English-speaker on the opposite side of the pond. With all of this combined with the fact that the *vast* majority of English-speakers in the US consider themselves as speaking *English* and have no interest in any kind of linguistic separatism at all aside from the usual nonsense about whether it's spelled "theater" or "theatre" (which doesn't count here). Even after enough time has passed for there to be truly significant dialect divergence between North American English and English English, I somehow do not imagine there being much political impetus for renaming what is spoken here "American", especially as people will still likely be able to read what each other write even if they have difficulty understanding each others' speech.
If people would stop speaking the bad English that you guys call dialects, everyone would keep understanding everyone else forever.
>>If people would stop speaking the bad English that you guys call dialects, everyone would keep understanding everyone else forever.<<
And just how do you define "bad English" anyways, and just why should we speak whatever you happen to arbitrary anoint as such rather than our own native dialects and like?
<Why should we continue to call this langauge English when it's majority is American?
We should be encourging the plight of our language and recall it American for the benefit of majority. I have refused to state that I speak "English" but American when answering other people/forms/etc.> Yawn! Why do you call the USA America? America is the continent? Hey, why not ask USAers to go back a few hundred years and invent their own language? After all, they did steal "ours". LOL!
I wander if I keap ryting laik dis its stil konsiderd inglish? Is it de speling dat maekes de language or it just has to bea compreensible?...
It duzzent matter hau wurdz aar ritten in e given oarthógraffi - it iz stil dhe seem langgwidj wun wei oar enúdher, no matter hau it happenz tu be rêprezéntid in raiting.
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