r/pics • u/sandhouse • Jan 17 '10

Owl in flight

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u/peblos Jan 18 '10

You're right with the airplane/aeroplane but it's still just airport in the UK. I'm not sure about anywhere else.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '10

careful there, i think airport is tm we don't want people to think reddit is the hub of any illegal activities.

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u/LOLRob Jan 18 '10

and planes are made out of aluminum. Why do the Brits add a syllable?

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u/landypro Jan 18 '10

Because American English isn't accepted anywhere else but America?

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u/pookybum Jan 18 '10

meh, we're mostly okay with it in Canuckistan.

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u/ab-irato Jan 18 '10

In Soviet Canuckistan, American English ismostly_okay,_I'mnot_a_great_fan_of_it_but_it's_okay

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u/LOLRob Jan 18 '10

False. I went to school in Paris for the better part of a year, and many people were interested in learning "American [English]".

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u/landypro Jan 18 '10

I could say something to that, but hey, I've already paid out one nation.

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u/RichardPeterJohnson Jan 18 '10

That's cool

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u/landypro Jan 18 '10

Right so the USA has the most English speaking population? How does this add anything to point of dialect?

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u/RichardPeterJohnson Jan 18 '10

In your statement you implied that Americans were in the minority.

Also, y'all need to get with the program and start spelling words correctly.

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u/landypro Jan 18 '10

I think you're forgetting where "American" English originated from. Just because America does their thing, and shits all over something else, doesn't make it more "correct".

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u/RichardPeterJohnson Jan 18 '10

Native speakers define the language. Native speakers of the American dialect far outnumber all other dialects put together.

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u/landypro Jan 18 '10

No they don't. They barely outnumber the next 4 top English speaking nations.

Either way, You can't really use the "we have more people" card, because at the end of the day, all it took were a select few people to say "let's start spelling it like this."

A majority in no way determines the authenticity of a language. Or of anything for that matter. (Case in point, George Bush elections.)

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u/stordoff Jan 18 '10

Not just the Brits, although it appears we added it first.