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To be honest, I have no real problem having one, another or both.

ranbir said:
I expect more to learn the Queen's English. Canada, India, Australia, we outnumber USA by a ridiculous amount.

Sad that USA get's priority.
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I understand that US English might be simpler and that half the world is in the USA's cultural sphere but to me it seems odd that we use the variant of one influential country - one which was not the original intent of the language.

Still if you think this debate is pointless, try and tell a Frenchman they shouldn't speak French...
 
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Language is a mean of communication. As long as I get what they mean, I don't care.

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If one is Queen's English, what's the other one? Obama's English? :confused:
 
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Surely the point is that English was developed in ENGLAND over a 1000 years of time and is therefore the language that the English speak and write.

All other versions of the language are NOT English - they are modified in one way or another and need to have a modified name, like Indian English, Canadian English, American English etc.

Just the same as Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian French, Mexican Spanish etc.

Just look at the language settings in your PC to see the multiple versions of the major languages. Windows 7 currently lists 16 versions of English, 6 versions of French, 20 versions of Spanish etc. by country.
 
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ranbir said:
I expect more to learn the Queen's English. Canada, India, Australia, we outnumber USA by a ridiculous amount.

Sad that USA get's priority.
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Based purely off native speakers, 64% of English speakers are American. Estimating English in India is hard, but it is generally assumed that the USA has more fluent speakers than India.

It is important to note that English, unlike many other languages, does not have an official version. It's actually one of the most powerful aspect of our language - we can share its history without being culturally bound to one another. It also makes the language more adaptable to shifts in culture, technology, politics, and socio-economics. In the end people will use the version they are most familiar with and that's fine. I didn't throw Harry Potter in the trash can because Rowling spelled "um" and "uh" as "erm" and "er", though in the days before understanding that Queen's English is a non-rhotic (R-dropping) dialect it was very silly.

Thrake said:
If one is Queen's English, what's the other one? Obama's English? :confused:
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The closest version to an American Queen's English is the old Mid-Atlantic Dialect (sometimes called the Transatlantic Dialect given it was based off fancy-shmancy British English) and today's General American or Radio American English.
 
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"Estimating English in India is hard, but it is generally assumed that the USA has more fluent speakers than India."

I'd contest that. Poor 'murica. :D:D
 
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so just what are the common differences between US/international english and UK english? i get the sometimes substitution of F or PH even when it it's incorrect (adolf vs adolph which just bugs me) but when i first heard aluminium and not aluminum i thought the speaker was talking about two different things.

isn't it mainly the interchangeability of certain letters? paralyse vs paralyze and whatnot?
 
As I know in eastern-central Europe you are taught British English too. Mostly I don't care but i feel that british just fit the theme when playing CK or EU.
 
Just feels more sophisticated.

Kind of like how British accents feel better in fantasy dramas. Can you imagine Game of Thrones if it used all the various accents of north America? Starks talking like Canadians, Dorne like Texans?
 
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From my experience living in Korea, the majority of ESL (English as a Second Language) teachers are American.

Sobisonator said:
Maybe you're taught British English because you're French, loup. Britain is right over the channel from France, so knowing British English would be more useful. I'm not sure if all countires, especially those outside Europe, do teach British English to their schoolchildren.

I would imagine American English is used because the USA has a higher population than the UK? There's not really much difference anyway.
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I think this is right. Continental Europeans are close to the UK, their experience is colo(u)red by this. But Asians (except India) are more familiar with the United States and it's version of the English language.
 
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ranbir said:
Just feels more sophisticated.

Kind of like how British accents feel better in fantasy dramas. Can you imagine Game of Thrones if it used all the various accents of north America? Starks talking like Canadians, Dorne like Texans?
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well winter IS coming eh.

actually that's something the John Oliver on Last Week Tonight touched on months ago. a slight british accent just seems to make things more serious for some reason.
 
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They should use whichever version of English matches the country you're playing.
If you're not playing an English-speaking country, the game should be in English with a ridiculous phonetic accent. ;-)
 
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frolix42 said:
From my experience living in Korea, the majority of ESL (English as a Second Language) teachers are American.
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That's mainly due too the sixty thousand troops the US has in South Korea.

My biggest question is where the 'h' went in through, I see Groogy spell it trough in some of his posts, he's not only one just reading his AAR right now.
 
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Other than the pride of "My country's English is better than your country's English!" getting wounded, I don't really see any issues why it matters at all, as long as it is consistent.

U.S English is certainly the most influential world-wide culturally, at the moment.

In most places of eastern Asia and south-eastern Asia, American English is standard that is taught... likely due to limited U.K/Canadian/Australian influence there in comparison to the U.S, both politically and culturally.

I know that British English does get taught in China though... probably due to anti-U.S sentiments.
 
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Almost all of the commonwealth/former empire countries use British spellings, although you get a sort of local dialect in a lot of places. The Queen's English is *not* standard British English; the accent and grammar are slightly different.
 
PDS should be using 'Strayan' English, dontya know? :p

OK, maybe not :).

I personally prefer English as it's spoken in England, as it's the 'root' English, so a little more likely to have commonalities with it's various offshoots, but given they've all evolved a fair bit, it's hardly surprising. I personally dislike a number of the US amendments to English as they tend to remove detail from the phonetic pronunciations of the word (colour and honour vs color and honor), and thus take the language a bit further away from phonetic than it is originally, but it's deffo not a big issue - English is confusing enough that the mild extra inconsistencies to the structure of things added in US English only make it a tiny bit less consistent than the mess of inconsistencies it is already :).
 
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Axe99 said:
I personally prefer English as it's spoken in England, as it's the 'root' English, so a little more likely to have commonalities with it's various offshoots, but given they've all evolved a fair bit, it's hardly surprising. I personally dislike a number of the US amendments to English as they tend to remove detail from the phonetic pronunciations of the word (colour and honour vs color and honor), and thus take the language a bit further away from phonetic than it is originally, but it's deffo not a big issue - English is confusing enough that the mild extra inconsistencies to the structure of things added in US English only make it a tiny bit less consistent than the mess of inconsistencies it is already :).
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Personally, I think spelling-wise though, the U.S is more consistent and in line with pronunciation, simply because that was their original intention when they were tried to standardize English in their country. This removed some of the inconsistencies in English brought by the influences of other languages, such as French.

Beyond that though, it is really just a matter of preference, or perhaps, for some of the people complaining here, a matter of pride ;)
 
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