“hmm… this isn’t the right country but let’s roll the dice and see what happens”
I did that with a game I installed and couldn’t figure out how to fix it. So I just uninstalled the game and tried again…
Ok, ok I may have a solution that will make everyone happy: let’s all speak Esperanto! One flag for all!
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Yeah, but it’s not obvious how many galoshes of diced onion I need when it says 100g.
I had a roommate in college royally fuckup huge batch of very expensive ribs we’d bought for a party because the online recipe called for 2 cloves of garlic abbreviated as “garlic - 2c” and he put in 2 cups of garlic powder.
Fake - you can never have too much garlic.
Honestly at that point just use the whole onion
I saw a New York Times recipe once that called for ¾ cup plus 2 tablespoons of all purpose flour.
They meant 125g.
The British, when they have to click the American flag for English, and then they see “color” without the “u”:
Col-or what, that’s what I want to know.
We save it for u wot M8?
Percentage wise, more percent of the population in England speaks English than in the US.
Speak native american!!
Portuguese people clicking on the Brazilian flag to see something in Portuguese 💀
Duolingo does this. English is American and Portuguese is Brazilian. Doesn’t make sense.
It makes a bit of sense because Duolingo teaches you the American variety of English and Brazilian.
But still… why?!
yeah I think they should offer the original languages too
Presumably demand is why.
Is their Spanish course based on any particular country’s dialect?
Polish people clicking on the Polish flag to see something in Polish while being in Australia:
Then : Kurwa!
*ɐʍɹnʞ
I wonder what the Polish, Monégasque, and Indonesian folk do when they win a flag competition?
Celebrate, probably 🤷
You’re right. I’m overthinking it!
High-five the group of Belgian, Chadian, and Romanian vexillologists who were also sweating profusely throughout.
Indonesian flag is just the Dutch flag with the blue part being torn out of spite
I replaced the US flag with a UK one on my website for this reason x)
As an American who does web development, “You guys have multiple languages on your websites?”
The whole concept of multilingual websites is foreign to Americans. There is only one language in their mind.
As soon as Trump was inaugurated, the Whitehouse website removed the spainish language feature
That’s for another reason we clearly know
What’s language?
yes
Languages and nationalities are not a one-to-one match anyway. What would you expect from a Canadian flag? French, or English? The USA has NO official language, so that makes even less sense.
I wish people would stop trying to replace words with cute little images.
As a Brit I feel like I’m going to have a cardiac arrest from cholesterol buildup every time I have to click the cheeseburger flag; so I can appreciate where they’re coming from.
Brit here it’s our laugauge don’t like it? Get your own instead of spelling ours wrong
Canadian here. Choosing between UK English and US English feels like choosing between an abusive father and abusive husband.
What’s all that aboot?
We are a reformed crazy dad we are trying to be part of your life but we’re still drama
350 million Americans, 70 million British.
Your minority opinion is noted but outvoted, micronation.
Hmmmm yes but the average American reads at a grade 6 level, so I daresay UK beats USA there.
Do you have a comparable statistic for British adults, or could no one afford to fund the study?
https://literacytrust.org.uk/parents-and-families/adult-literacy/
https://www.prosperityforamerica.org/literacy-statistics/
These are what I found after searching literacy statistics for both nations. I haven’t gone and checked through the data but it seems that the UK has a lower illiteracy rate than the US.
Colony
I’m here for this English on regressed English violence.
Regressed English are the Welsh mate the colonys are known as the new indies
As an Aussie it really grinds my gears that office defaults to American spelling. And even after I change the dictionary to Australian or UK english it still continues to insert ‘z’ into words. It’s colonise, not colonize!
I thought in Aus and other international areas the Z was considered correct spelling, even though most of the rest follows British convention?
Australia follows British conventions. However both spellings are correct and there has been a rise in ‘z’ over the past few years with American influence.
All government websites etc use British spelling.
Of course it’s worth adding that the Oxford English Dictionary argues (argued?) that the z is proper in British English! I disagree ;-)
What!
My world doth shaketh
Mine too. I had to stop believing in the OED as the foremost authority on correct English!
Besides, they probably put commas in the wrong places over there too.
How do you pronounce that word
Haben Sie schonmal von germanischen Sprachen gehört, wo ein ‘S’ duraus so wie englisches ‘Z’ klingen kann?
I bet that sounds really good if you say it out loud
A tourist wanted some directions so he asked: "Sorry, do you speak American.’
My buddy who can be a purist: “I understand American but I speak English.”
Years ago I had someone ask me where the exit to the building is. The building occupies a complete city block in NYC and there are many exits. Using the wrong exit could add 15 minutes to your walk.
I asked him where he is was going. He got flustered, said “speak American”, and walked off.
On Oxford Street in London, a tourist asked me for directions to Edgware.
At first puzzled by his interest in visiting far-off social housing and knife crime, I quickly realized by his accent what he actually meant and directed him to nearby Edgware Road.
One of these days Trump is gonna sue the UK for speaking the American language
“By presidential decree, it will no longer be called ‘American English’ and ‘British English’, it will be ‘American American’ and ‘English American’.”
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