Why is it that Americans get away with abusing our language should we not invade the colony and reclaim it?

Question

coz we have a better army.
and they cant spell colour or cheque!

phuck Whats sammy on he should have been in NAM

Answer 1

REVOCATION OF AMERICAN STATE OF INDEPENDENCE
A message to the citizens of the United States of America:

In light of your repetitive failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (excepting Kansas, which she does not fancy). Your new prime minister, Tony Blair, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you actually noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium", and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it all along. The letter "U" will be reinstated in words such as "favour", "colour" and "neighbour." Likewise, you will learn to spell "doughnut" without skipping half the letters, and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise".

Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary", if necessary.

Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.

There is no such thing as US English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter "u" and the elimination of "ize".

You will re-learn your original national anthem, God Save The Queen.

July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.

You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not mature enough to handle firearms. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you'll understand what we mean.

All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (the previously-used term "gasoline" will henceforth be taboo) - at roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.

You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick-cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.

The cold, tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. The substances formerly known as "American Beer" will henceforth be referred to as "Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine", with the exception of the product of the American Budweiser company whose product will be referred to as "Weak Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine". This will allow true Budweiser (as manufactured for the last 1000 years in Pilsen, Czech Republic) to be sold without risk of confusion.

Hollywood will be required to occasionally cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English roles. Watching Andie MacDowell attempt English dialogue in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.

You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).

Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the "World Series" for a game which is not played outside of America. However, since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.

You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.

An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).

Thank you for your co-operation

Answer 2

Listen buddy, bastardizing the Queen's english has been an American institution since we turned Boston Harbor a lovely shade of Earl Grey!!! Just bustin' your chops! I was stationed in England for four years and made a lot of British mates!! You aren't still sore about that late 1700's thing are you? Sorry to kick off that whole "decline of the empire" thing..Our bad! Funny, but more British folks showed up to our Fourth of July celebrations at our base than American mil members. They had a great time! Seriously though a good percentage of Americans speak spanish...They're called Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans and Cuban Americans! And the gangsta lingo is just a bastardization of American english, which in turn is a bastardization of the Queens english. I see the startings of a vicious cycle. Pretty soon the latest lingo will be straight from the mean streets of Kensington. Sorry, I am still just bustin' your b*lls! I had to have some fun with this!!!

Answer 3

Just like the English - always want to start a war. Maybe we abuse 'your' language and maybe not. But have you considered your question? For example, there is no such word as 'coz', and your grammar sucks! And which colony are you thinking of? You got your butts handed to you on a platter 230 years ago when we were 13 colonies - I guess an unlucky number for you. By the way, what is wrong with your teeth?

Answer 4

Americans have abused the language since they arrived here but look at the great country they created that everyone wants to live in. Many were uneducated and created new words and names by mispelling everything. I still can't understand some of them when they speak, but it's really colorful, beautiful, unique and depending upon where you are, ancient. Who are you, a British Royal that butchers English with a stiff upper lip?. Leave Americans alone.

Answer 5

Oh! And don't forget the fact they changed the s's into z's.
And they're ugly accent. And their bad taste for food. And their lack of humour. And their thick president.

Yes, reclaim it, then build a huge fence around it, cut the whole country off from civilisation... maybe that will help them to see the error of their ways.

Answer 6

I was told that the English spoken by Americans is closer to the original English spoken in Shakespeare's day. That after the American revolution that the British changed there English as a form of rebellion against the American.

Answer 7

First of all American English and British English are two very different languages. Neither one is more right than the other. And secondly, your army is better than ours? Yeah, keep dreaming.

Answer 8

At little too much of the noonday sun maddog - or are you really Joe Cocker?

How about this: you guys take New York, DC, and California, we give Texas back to Mexico and Florida back to Spain, then say we're sorry and call it even.

Whaddaya say?

Answer 9

We just slaughter the hell out of it don't we, sorry can't be helped, to many different languages that have melded together to form the American English, sorry old chap. slip the grip to the Queen for me will ya.

Answer 10

Just try is sucka!! There's a differnce between American English and British English. Just like Spanish in Spain and Spanish in Mexico. Try to take us back i dare u!!!

Answer 11

yeah,c'mon over and invade us. We'll have a couple a rounds and all fall down dead drunk.Lush