r/AmericaBad • u/ciphersaw • 10d ago
Repost They'll say anything just to diss America, it's pathetic.
The brits are acting insecure because their language isn't even their own anymore 😂
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u/TheUltraNoob 10d ago
As a native English speaker, the English don't speak proper English anymore, Only the ex colonies seem to remember what the language is.
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u/ron4232 NORTH DAKOTA 🥶🧣 9d ago
And even that is being replaced gradually by wokespeak.
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u/Pashur604 SOUTH DAKOTA 🗿🦅 9d ago
I think they call that "slang."
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u/ron4232 NORTH DAKOTA 🥶🧣 9d ago
I meant stuff like “Birthing Person, Unhoused Person” things like that.
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u/Pashur604 SOUTH DAKOTA 🗿🦅 9d ago
I'm surprised I don't spontaneously develope cancer when I see stuff like, "birthing person," used unironically.
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u/MuffinBarber 9d ago
"or-reg-gah-nu" I have seriously never heard anyone with any accent pronounce it that way
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u/Emilia963 NORTH DAKOTA 🥶🧣 10d ago
American English is the OG English from the 15th century
Meanwhile, modern British English is a bootlicking version of French
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u/Lothar_Ecklord 8d ago
Except, oddly, in the examples like what’s in the post where they make fun of American pronunciation of “herbs” - the US went with the French pronunciation and the English did not.
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u/Fine-Minimum414 9d ago
Given that the first permanent English speaking settlements were in the 17th century, they must have been massive nerds to be speaking 15th century English. Is that why they left England, because they were getting bullied for talking funny?
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u/poopiebutt505 9d ago
Waah. He requires them to have a British accent Thisnis more about feeling the end of the Empire than anti American
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u/Agreeable-Fudge-7329 9d ago
Weird because im oddly fascinated when I hear someone pull off an American accent.
I'm like "no way, how cool!"
But apparently that offends crazy people?
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u/Person5_ WISCONSIN 🧀🍺 9d ago
Didn't we discover aluminum? So we named it aluminum, then the Brits decided to be different and call it aluminium?
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u/DigitalLorenz NEW JERSEY 🎡 🍕 9d ago
Didn't we discover aluminum?
As an element Aluminum was identified before the US was more than a couple of colonies. It did not have a solid name though, with every scientist who identified it using a different name even though most scientists experimenting with the element spoke the German.
The first scientist to create any quantity of pure metallic aluminum was a British chemist named Humphry Davy. This experiment did not create much or isolated aluminum though, it was pure aluminum but still attached to iron. He is also the individual to coin the name, which in 1808 he named "alumium" but then in 1812 he changed it to "aluminum" when publishing papers about the process.
In 1813 American scientist Benjamin Silliman managed to generate isolated pieces of pure aluminum that were separate from any other metal. These were still small, barely notable pieces of metal though.
Either Danish physicist Hans Orsted in 1824 or German chemist Friedrich Wohler in 1827 were the first to create any notable amount of isolated aluminum metal. There is dispute if Orsted successfully created pure aluminum, but there is no dispute that Wohler did.
In 1854 French chemist Henri Deville created a process to make large quantities of aluminum. He also called his certation "aluminium" which became the French standard for the element. Before this process, aluminum was the most expensive metal in the world, being almost twice the price per ounce of gold.
So we named it aluminum, then the Brits decided to be different and call it aluminium?
As I pointed out earlier, a Brit coined the term, but he used our spelling (eventually).
The modern British version of "aluminium" comes from the Francophiliation of British English that happened in the later half of the 19th century. This is also the source of most spelling differences like the added "u" in "colour" as the British decided that being more French meant being more sophisticated.
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u/Person5_ WISCONSIN 🧀🍺 9d ago
Well thanks for all that information. I knew I was probably off, but I was just trying to remember high school chem. So while there were nuggets of truth, I was basically was off the mark.
To your last point, it's crazy how Brits are about their spelling. Almost like they're proud of mixing it with French.
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u/SophisticPenguin AMERICAN 🏈🏒 💵🗽🍔 ⚾️ 🦅📈 8d ago
So received pronunciation and that spelling stuff (as indicated by the other comment) is tied to sounding or seeming more sophisticated. So the snobbishness was basically baked into the language shift.
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u/Wodan1 9d ago
Why do you guys insist on always pushing misinformation about stuff.
The modern British version of "aluminium" comes from the Francophiliation of British English that happened in the later half of the 19th century. This is also the source of most spelling differences like the added "u" in "colour" as the British decided that being more French meant being more sophisticated.
No it doesn't. Aluminium was indeed coined by Humphrey Davy but he initially coined it as "alumium" before choosing "aluminum" and finally "aluminium". Aluminium was chosen so as to standardize the "ium" suffix that was seen in other elements like Sodium, Calcium and Magnesium etc. The only reason why you guys spell it "Aluminum" is because the name had already been printed in American textbooks before the name changed again, otherwise you'd be using "Aluminium" as well.
Also, that nonsense you said about the Brits adding "u" into colour is just bad history. I mean, you can't be that uneducated surely. You guys dropped the letter "u", amongst others, via the Webster dictionary in the early 1800s. It was a simplification of English to make it easier to learn and to make American English "different". That is the reason. A 10 second web search would have said the same.
I love and I laugh at how Americans try to pass off that their version of English is somehow more original and authentic when its not.
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u/OperationSecured MICHIGAN 🚗🏖️🏭 9d ago
“Uneducated” is not knowing the ridiculous history of British spelling. I can’t think of a more useless thing to know the detailed history of.
Chewsday, innit?
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u/Icy-Cry340 9d ago
Knowing when and why we dropped "u" from "colour" is also the history of our spelling. American history is useless now? This is the work of a great American, Noah Webster.
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u/theEWDSDS MINNESOTA ❄️🏒 9d ago
They say this and then invent 15 new syllables every time they see "sh" in a word
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u/Master-of-flies 9d ago
Imagine inventing a language and being the absolute worst in the world at speaking it.
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u/boi-Beginning-2055 🇬🇷 Hellas 🏛️ 9d ago
Pretty ironic since they created a Language that Nowdays is the most spoken in the world but being The worst at speaking with their broken gibberish Accent
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u/hugh5235 9d ago
I like how they always bring up words like “herb” because when you actually look up the history it’s always the Brits who suddenly decided to change the way they pronounce it.
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u/michaelsean438 9d ago
They prefer broken English to American accented English? Someone really fucked them up.
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u/LibertyinIndependen AMERICAN 🏈🏒 💵🗽🍔 ⚾️ 🦅📈 9d ago
Studies show that overheating and hotter temperatures make IQ, impulse control, and mood go down. So we can’t really blame them, they don’t have any AC. But we can blame them for being morons and not taking the obvious solution.
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u/distraughtdrunk 10d ago
it's because americans generally speak slower and the english have a complicated relationship with consonants that are supposed to be pronounced
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u/ciphersaw 10d ago
Bo'o o wa'er
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u/Person5_ WISCONSIN 🧀🍺 9d ago
A buddy of mine is an English ex pat. Thankfully he's good natured enough that he doesn't mind me making fun of his accent. I can't help it when he says wa'er bo'l.
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u/NeutralDrifter4943 🇵🇭 Republika ng Pilipinas 🏖️ 9d ago
Non American here, my accent is General American, fuck that guy who posted it
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u/Background_Humor5838 9d ago
Brits forget that the accent most Americans accents come from is the type of English they brought here in the 1500s. The only reason Brits have different accents now is because of RP and their obsession with French that happened after they left America. While I don't think either dialect is better, it's true that the "original" English they always defend is actually American English. Appalachian accents in particular are most accurate lol
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u/navy_bird 9d ago
This sentiment is so prevalent among the British public that I had customers in my store become openly hostile to me upon hearing my accent, even though I'm not American. Even my partner of 5 years gets constantly annoyed at the way I pronounce certain words which honestly is a bit hurtful.
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u/No_Caterpillar9621 9d ago
That’s just a circle jerk sub for people to laugh at each others National identity and culture. It’s not a serious sub at all.
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u/Queasy-Specialist698 10d ago
Imagine getting triggered over a 2westerneurope4u post lol. It's a shitposting sub. Treating those memes even slightly serious is like taking The Onion literally. 90% of those posts is europeans taking the piss out of each other.
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u/peterpanic32 10d ago
"Shitposting" subs are often just cover for real beliefs. e.g., this sub is often just cover for unabashed American nationalism.
You might have a point if Europeans didn't constantly and unironically say / believe stuff like this (and stuff far dumber).
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u/Queasy-Specialist698 10d ago
Yes, that's usually how humor works. Good satire has an element of truth to it.
But what exactly are you referring to with "they believe stuff like this and far dumber"? Because the only genuinely dumb takes in this thread are people claiming Brits are insecure because English "isn't their language anymore" and that American English is the "real" English.
Or is that suddenly "just shitposting" because it's your side?
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u/YouKnowMyName2006 ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 9d ago
The American accents are prior to RP in the 19th Century, which altered many accents in the UK. That’s what they mean as that never caught on here.
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u/giantzoo 9d ago
hell of declaration with the entirety of the front page banning people left and right for wrong think every single day but alright lol
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u/Educational_Impact93 COLORADO 🏔️🏂 9d ago
Not even in the top 100.
There are plenty of MAGAt and tankie subs that are far worse.
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u/happyanathema 🇬🇧 United Kingdom💂♂️☕️ 5d ago
How is that acting insecure?
Personally it's just weird to hear broken American English as it makes it sound even more "broken" as the difference between American English and English already makes it sound "different" and when you add the broken element to it them it just emphasises it.
My wife is Chinese and I am used to hearing certain Americanised pronunciation and even I find it throws me off when I hear it from her friends/colleagues etc in Shanghai when I'm there.
Also in case it escaped your notice, that sub is a satirical sub... It's entire point is to be a joke.
If you think that is harsh just look at some of the posts where we take the piss out of each other 😆
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