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Which english do you prefer?

What is in your opinion the best english?

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Macaddicttt said:
Actually, according to linguists, American English isn't even a different dialect. It's not different enough to be considered one.
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its quite similar, given there is basically a few grammar differences (very few mind) and some spelling differences.

the major change is accents. which has little impact on how the language is written.
 
lofight said:
Really, if this is true, my teacher really isn't a good teacher. He says that all English speaking people use lettre, but that it's changing to letter..
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Haha. I've never ever seen anyone spell letter as lettre unless they were dyslexic. Maybe they did back in 1100 or something after the Norman invasion when the national language was French but not for a good few hundred years :).
 
dynamicv said:
What's this British English thing? I speak English, from England. It's not quite the same as English as spoken in Scotland or even English as spoken in Wales. Therefore there is no British English.

I don't mind the American one though. It's completely understandable, although they do tend to speak frustratingly slowly :p
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I shall change this in my original post, but it was just to show the difference..

Abstract said:
English.

I hate American English. However, I detest Australian English even more. It just sounds like a lazy English accent. American sounds different entirely.
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yeah, australian is pretty lazy and funny too hear..

ey "MATE" :p
Cromulent said:
Haha. I've never ever seen anyone spell letter as lettre unless they were dyslexic. Maybe they did back in 1100 or something after the Norman invasion when the national language was French but not for a good few hundred years :).
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:p pretty funny my teacher believes this..
 
american english ftw! i mean, wth is a-lu-mini-um? ;)

americans ain't lazy, our english is just clear and direct.
 
Hey! What's with all the anti-Aussie sentiment? :mad:

Nah, I can't blame you...I hate our accent as well. :D I'd like to think my accent is fairly neutral, but its hard to tell. I was quite surprised that while in the US a lot of people thought I was British.

That aside, I definitely prefer British English, both in written and spoken form.
 
Prefer Scottish english to my posh english i use when im abroad. But to tell the truth american english is the closer to colonial english than the english them guys south of me speak.

At least in a pub abroad i can speak with americans, french, germans, welsh, irish and just about everyone else except someone form england will be the only person not to understand me.
 
kretzy said:
Nah, I can't blame you...I hate our accent as well. :D I'd like to think my accent is fairly neutral, but its hard to tell.
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Melburnian accents are funny. I love the way it always goes up at the end of a sentence. Everything sounds like a question :D

babyjenniferLB said:
At least in a pub abroad i can speak with americans, french, germans, welsh, irish and just about everyone else except someone form england will be the only person not to understand me.
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Has it ever occurred to you that they're just more polite than we are? :)
 
Even though I'm an American...

Have to go with British English if only because the slang is so much cooler.

There are just so many awesome words that we don't use in the US :p
 
My favourite is English English, but as for American English, it can be good (New York), or completely ****ing awful (Alabama), or somewhere in between. I prefer Australian accents to most American accents too.

P.S.

British = Aluminium

American = Alooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooominum
 
I prefer "American" English, preferably with a southern dialect. It is a part of my roots, and despite what Top Gear may lead people to believe, it is possible to retain a southern, American English and still be intelligent. I would say that a Scotch English accent would be my second favorite.
 
British English makes me sleepy when I listen to it over the radio or TV. I don't know why but when I was in Hong Kong, the only channel I understood was BBC. But then, maybe watching the news is boring too.
 
Whoa! There are so many Englishes that only giving two is...pointless. American and British English in themselves don't even mean anything. Within the States there are so many different versions of English... And then there's New Zealand, Australia (which I know has at least one other English spoken by the inhabitants of Darwin:D), South Africa, India, Kenya, Pakistan... you get the picture.
 
Ish said:
And how well do you write Belgian?
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sunfast said:
Flemish ;)
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Gah! I start reading the thread, see the former, read the rest of the thread, excited that nobody bothered to correct him, and BAM! There it is. I'm so sad.

I find that speakers in the United States are more apt to adhere to original pronunciation than those in the UK. Of course, there are plenty of Americans that butcher other languages (and citizens of the various countries of the UK who don't), so this isn't a hard and fast rule. But, it is something I've noticed in living on both sides of the pond.
 
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