UK English or US English?

[DrakenGuard]

Just rein-stalling a game of mine and it asks for which language it wanst to install in, I choose UK English as Im in the UK and from it but I always wondered:

 

What IS the key differences between the two "languages"? Or perhaps Versions of the Language?

 

This may also go for Austrailian English, Canadian, South African and other major speakers of the Language of England.

 

Things like how to spell "center" and "centre" are one of the things that bug me too.

 

And I know is all how people spell it, just like to know your belief.

[Flintlockecole]

Tons, go find an American Dictionary and look through it.

[MarkInMKUK]

A big subject...

 

The Americans made a decision to "simplify" spellings, and deliberately went through altering "-ise" to "-ize" and "-our" to "-or", etc. As part of this they lost some of the distinctions between words with different spellings, such as "tyre" (the rubber bit of a wheel) and "tire" (to exhaust), making the American language, in my optinion, poorer for the alteration.

 

However, American PHRASING is a different subject. A phrase such as "He has gotten his reward" is, actually, closer to English as spoken by the Pilgrim Fathers than the eqiuivalent English phrase, "He has got his reward". So both sides have gained and lost in the intervening time.

Edited August 23, 2011 by MarkInMKUK

[SpellAndShield]

Just rein-stalling a game of mine and it asks for which language it wanst to install in, I choose UK English as Im in the UK and from it but I always wondered:

 

What IS the key differences between the two "languages"? Or perhaps Versions of the Language?

 

This may also go for Austrailian English, Canadian, South African and other major speakers of the Language of England.

 

Things like how to spell "center" and "centre" are one of the things that bug me too.

 

And I know is all how people spell it, just like to know your belief.

 

Trend: American English; orthography more modern, grammar more archaic, phonology more archaic

British English: other way around

[Thor.]

Although things like Arrmour and Colour other then the US version of just color, witch in my opinion is spelt wrong :verymad: .

 

Canadians use the UK way of spelling, but it sometimes gets lost mixed up with the way the usa pronounce words.

Edited August 23, 2011 by Thor.

[brokenergy]

I agree. I use UK english instead of US because I feel that the UK way is the more approprate way of writing. US are just lazy.

[MonsterHunterMaster]

THERS NO UK OR U-AYUS AYUNGLISH, AWNLLY REDNAYUCK AYUNGLISH!

[Illiad86]

lol MHM :P

 

Yeah, we are lazy butts, I guess, we pronounce aluminum wrong haha. I actually spell in UK English a lot because it looks right. I don't know why we changed so much of our words...think it's pretty stupid myself. My teachers used to yell at me for spelling armour and colour "wrong" :P

 

There was a good video on LiveLeak about the differences, but their search function still sucks even after the website upgrade, so I can't find it :(

[antonkr]

Hello friend would you like to come down to my apartment for a beer ? We can ride my uncle's truck too. Oh wait dammit he is using it today

Hello mate would you like to come down to my flat for a pint? We can ride my uncle's lorry too. Oh wait bloody hell he is using it today.

And that's all my stereotypical American knows :P

[billyro]

There aren't many huge differences in the text besides different letters or placement differences. One I can think of is colour. In US, it's color. And mum, US = mom.

It isn't bad, just small differences that can help you justify the location of a particular piece of work. :P