2007-10-10 04:57:19 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
That's because we have our version of the language and people in other countries have their own. Even in Great Britain, where the Queen's English is promoted as being the correct form of the language, I still hear the majority of the people there speaking in their own local dialects.
2007-10-10 07:21:45 · answer #1 · answered by RoVale 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Historically speaking the Americans use a lot of English spellings and meanings for words that date back to the 1600s and earlier.
Unfortunately for the Americans the progenitors of the language, The English moved on in their development of the language.
Spelling diverged due to the influence of the French Court on the English Court, which accounts for the Americans using the Medieval 'ize' rather than the Anglo-French "ise"
I won't go in to how poor most native English speakers linguistic abilities are, as that's an entirely different can of worms.
2007-10-10 05:14:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Americans speak and write American English.
Get over it.
No one group owns language. A language belongs to all its speakers.
Why don't YOU learn to spell and pronouce English the way Shakespeare did?
It's really the same thing, isn't it? Language changes over time, due to the ways users of the language speak and write.
If you really can't handle this concept, take up Latin.
2007-10-10 07:14:02 · answer #3 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Right after the English learn to pronounce ALUMINUM properly!!
2007-10-10 22:22:15 · answer #4 · answered by mAT2t 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
'properly' equals BBC "properly?" that dialect of English is not a very old one, actually.
the currently used versions of English that are the closest to older forms of English (thus more 'proper') are spoken in Kentucky and Newfoundland.
sorry, old squire.
2007-10-10 05:07:22 · answer #5 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
America is a hodgepodge of mixed cultures and peoples, and as a result, some words from other languages bleed over ... like Kaput for instance. It means broken. Litterally. It's a german word. Yet people who don't know german will use it as meaning it's broken. They probably don't even know it's german.
And living languages ... like the American tongue ... change over time. In the old days 'advancement' meant 'promotion'. And 'fear' meant 'respect' ... not terror.
2007-10-10 05:23:22 · answer #6 · answered by The Dragon 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When they realize and want to improve their vocabulary in order to demonstrate they want to demonstrate their country is important enough to them. The desire to speak and spell correctly is very important because other countries expect U S citizens to be literate and vocally correct. It is a careless attitude that allows such a sloppy way of speaking. Lack of self respect.
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2007-10-10 06:58:15 · answer #7 · answered by gatita 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
17 June, 2057 at 14:22 GMT
2007-10-10 05:01:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
When english is declared the official language of the USA.
What makes it ridiculous is that yanks demand everybody to speak english, when they don't actually speak it, but a dialect
2007-10-10 06:14:56 · answer #9 · answered by Der Schreckliche 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How to say words properly?
Anyone who has the brass to say that someone else is speaking improperly needs to back off.
The words are only as good as the meaning. Not vice versa
2007-10-10 05:01:18 · answer #10 · answered by devinthedragon 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋