If someone was to say to you "what language do you speak?" would you say American or English?
2007-03-25 10:45:32 · 31 answers · asked by karla o 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I'm American, and I speak English. We differentiate using American English vs. British English.
2007-03-25 10:49:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
English
2007-03-25 19:45:00 · answer #2 · answered by romie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English
2007-03-25 17:49:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
English
2007-03-25 17:48:23 · answer #4 · answered by hollyberry 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
English
2007-03-25 17:48:21 · answer #5 · answered by colliedogcody 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
English.
2007-03-25 17:48:37 · answer #6 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I used to say English, but after living in the UK for a few years, I have to say American.
It's a completely different language, we spell things differently, even some of the grammar is different, and the clichés are different. When I did University here for instance, I had an essay with like 100 spelling "mistakes" but it was all right in American. And then, I'm now used to British spelling, opened my document up in an American spell checker, and it's got all these red lines all over the place that weren't there with the British spell checker.
Plus the vocabulary is different here. Flashlight, kids don't know what that is. Eraser they call rubber...
Canadians spell things the British way, but say things the American way (and their clichés and grammar are more American).
"If you go somewhere in the British empire and you hear someone speaking a language that is completely unintelligible, where you can't understand a word and you can't even figure out what family of language it is they are speaking, then it's probably English" - The Innocent Anthropolist.
2007-03-25 17:56:10 · answer #7 · answered by dude 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
English, American style.
2007-03-25 17:49:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
American is not a language, English is.
2007-03-25 17:49:50 · answer #9 · answered by liberty11235 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I speak English... always have. We're taught English in schools - not American.
American and Canada are english speaking countries :
America
Australia
Canada
England...... and on and on
the list is huge !
According to research by the British Council, "English has *official* or special status in at least seventy-five countries with a total population of over two billion. English is spoken as a native* language by around 375 million and as a second language* by around 375 million speakers in the world. Speakers of English as a second language will soon outnumber those who speak it as a first language. Around 750 million people are believed to speak English as a foreign language*. One out of four of the world's population speak English to some level of competence. Demand from the other three-quarters is increasing."
2007-03-25 17:53:33 · answer #10 · answered by Kate 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋