Why Americans can not speak English?

Answer 1

Cause they're DUMBOS!

Answer 2

Every language is changing. Nowadays one can see that very clear with loads of new terms.
And it will change in different territories in different ways.
In the US there's also the fact that it's a big mix of people of different origin. Someone that speaks Vietnamese as native language, will speak a different English than someone in Little Italy (where many US-born still speak only Italian ...). In the end there's a mixture, very different to Britain for example. So it seems comprehensible to me that the language is a different one, even if still "English".
One idea, when I read this question was, that most of the Americans believe to speak English and don't see any need to brush it up.

Answer 3

Because they speak American English. From the moment the first settlers arrived their use of the language began to diverge from that spoken/written in England (which was already different from town to town, with very little standardisation), because they were so far away, needed words for things that simply didn't exist in England and, of course, many of them weren't English to start with. After the civil war there was a feeling that Americans should deliberately and actively create a different culture to the ones they had left behind, which lead to Webster writing his American Dictionary in which he respelled many words to make them more logical (instead of the mixture of French and Latin structures found in standard English). In practice Modern English is as different to the English of the 17th century as American English. So it's not that American cannot speak English, more that they don't want to, choosing to speak American English instead.

Answer 4

Because, Americans are NOT British. They are Americans, and we speak Wronglish, not English.

Answer 5

Americans come from different countries so "english" in a brits terms is quite different then what we Americans consider "english"

Answer 6

I find that generally American people can speak good English.

The way you've worded your question suggests that you're not too good a writing English.

Is there some connection you would like to make?

Answer 7

Ah American inscrutable island people, very insular and not free thinkers...Laziness

Answer 8

Why you can not use proper grammar?

Answer 9

you're a funny one to ask....

Answer 10

they're dumb!