Annoying american terminology

i think americans are cute

1/3 of the forum dont "hate" americans, its just those idiots in the debate forum putting across pointless discussions.

Thanks for your remarkable insight into the American population


I'm sure when you get squashed by a 300 lb American from North Dakota who smells of B.O., you'll think the same.

-it was a poll where a third of the votes expressed "hate" of americans.

post your annoying examples of american phrases that do your head in here

like, why do they call cinemas "theatres"?

and, why are films called "motion picture events"?

you get my drift?

i told you to find its relevance in that statement. my original comment referred to the number of people willing to criticise a strain of the english language for no constructive purpose. the same people, no doubt, that contributed to the "do you hate americans thread?"
one has to ask, was it your guilty conscience?

I see what Gimp is saying about software and 'US English'. Most of the time there is little or no difference between US English and English in the language actually used in the software, they've just put 'US English' when perhaps they may have just used 'English' as a kind of catch-all term. Agenda here? Probably not, I assume it just means it was either written in the US or by someone who has learned US English (I hear that is quite prevalent), and there may or may not be Americanised spellings and phrases in the software. I don't think I've seen many software packages boasting both forms of English as options; the difference is too small to really care about.

Gimp, you could look at like this: you are adaptable enough to realise when something is written in English or US English and can read both with ease, whereas some might say some of our American chums may have difficulty with some of the original spellings

when?
you're planning my death already?
all the americans i've met were lovely

I didn't criticise US English.

These are Gimp's words not mine, I just said 'I see what he is saying'.

"I dislike that when installing software the only option nowadays is "U.S. English". I doubt it will be long before they just call it American (which some do already) and we're forgotten about entirely!"

contradicts

"I feel that these professional and international applications should...cater for each variety individually"

and

" I dislike that there is US English but not British English"

contradicts

"The fact remains that in Britain British English is spoken"

I think that's the way you deserve to die: while sleeping with an overweight American.
I don't think much of Americans. They're not particularly good-looking people.
On an American campus, it's surprising to see how few good-looking girls there really are. I've seen many more on Canadians campuses, basically because they're less overweight. When you go to the US, you wonder how they manage to find good-looking people to appear in their ads and tv shows.

what a nice boy
*pats head*
edit: with rubber glove on (just incase)

My only complaint is that they call crisps chips.

It's only when they realise that there's a place called England, from which English originates that they bother calling it American English. To them, culturally, we're non-existent. They speak English, we speak something else...

and they call the boot of a car, a trunk
chips are called fries
nappies are called dypers (?)
trousers are pants
....
what a headache...

I didn't participate in the head lice thread, basically because I don't have any...I have clean hair thank you very much.

And you'll find it hard to pat my head with your 4 feet in height.

The fact that you know what those phrases mean means its not really a headache at all. Its when peopel start saying words and phrases I've never heard of that the trouble starts, but that doesn't really happen too often and you can usually figure out what they mean.

Hmm ok.
How about "wouldn't it be nice if they'd just put 'English' as a catch-all of every variety of English as the differences are in fact minimal and if you can understand one you can understand another"?