Are some British trying to be imperialistic saying that American is a "British dialect?"

[Dalek Prime]

It's not a British dialect. It's a variety of North American English dialects. As to whether some British are trying to be imperialistic about it, I don't know their motives. However, the language origins fairly reside with the English, proper, however unique all the other dialects of English are that add to the language's rich heritage.

Straw man bullshit.

ALL English is spoken in dialectical forms.

Duh! The dialects spoken in England are the originals, but they're still dialects.

Stop automatically reacting to me, Hobbes, and just read.

[Hobbes' Choice]

It's not a British dialect. It's a variety of North American English dialects. As to whether some British are trying to be imperialistic about it, I don't know their motives. However, the language origins fairly reside with the English, proper, however unique all the other dialects of English are that add to the language's rich heritage.

Straw man bullshit.

ALL English is spoken in dialectical forms.

Duh! The dialects spoken in England are the originals, but they're still dialects.

Stop automatically reacting to me, Hobbes, and just read.

What don't you understand by "ALL English is spoken in Dialects"?
There are no "originals". There never was a point in history that "English" existed, and replaced something else.
You are poorly equipped cerebrally.

[Philosophy Explorer]

There is no language: "British". Britain has Cornish, Welsh, and Scots Gaelic, as well as "English".
You are a turd.

And as per usual, you're a tard.

PhilX

I think we can all see why I am disappointed with your first effort to think for yourself.[/quote]

You're one of the biggest disappointments on this forum.
If you put some effort into respecting others instead of your babble and trolling, this place could be much better.

PhilX

[Dalek Prime]

There is no language: "British". Britain has Cornish, Welsh, and Scots Gaelic, as well as "English".
You are a turd.

And as per usual, you're a tard.

PhilX

I think we can all see why I am disappointed with your first effort to think for yourself.

You're one of the biggest disappointments on this forum.
If you put some effort into respecting others instead of your babble and trolling, this place could be much better.

PhilX[/quote]
Amen.

[Dalek Prime]

It replaced Anglo_Saxon, idiot.

Are you that stupid, really Hobbes? What language became English, and where did it occur geographically? Anglo-Saxon, in England.

English is of the Germanic branch of Indo - European languages.

[Hobbes' Choice]

It replaced Anglo_Saxon, idiot.

Are you that stupid, really Hobbes? What language became English, and where did it occur geographically? Anglo-Saxon, in England.

English is of the Germanic branch of Indo - European languages.

I love this.

English is a melange of Old French, Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and even some Greek. It also features a selection of other words from languages as diverse as Norse, Hindi, and Celtic. The Angles the Saxons and the Jutes all had their various collections of languages, that contributed to English.

Language is boundless and complex. more so that you weak brain is capable of conceiving.

When you use the Internet rather than education it is easy to make the fundamental mistakes that are common to your threads.

[Dalek Prime]

It replaced Anglo_Saxon, idiot.

Are you that stupid, really Hobbes? What language became English, and where did it occur geographically? Anglo-Saxon, in England.

English is of the Germanic branch of Indo - European languages.

I love this.

English is a melange of Old French, Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and even some Greek. It also features a selection of other words from languages as diverse as Norse, Hindi, and Celtic. The Angles the Saxons and the Jutes all had their various collections of languages, that contributed to English.

Language is boundless and complex. more so that you weak brain is capable of conceiving.

When you use the Internet rather than education it is easy to make the fundamental mistakes that are common to your threads.

Of course it took pieces over time and made it it's own. So did Quebecois. But it's still French. Don't be such a twat. And stop assuming you're better read and educated. You're not. You are so insecure, always needing to put others down, and saying how right and smart you are (not).

[Hobbes' Choice]

It replaced Anglo_Saxon, idiot.

Are you that stupid, really Hobbes? What language became English, and where did it occur geographically? Anglo-Saxon, in England.

English is of the Germanic branch of Indo - European languages.

I love this.

English is a melange of Old French, Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and even some Greek. It also features a selection of other words from languages as diverse as Norse, Hindi, and Celtic. The Angles the Saxons and the Jutes all had their various collections of languages, that contributed to English.

Language is boundless and complex. more so that you weak brain is capable of conceiving.

When you use the Internet rather than education it is easy to make the fundamental mistakes that are common to your threads.

Of course it took pieces over time and made it it's own. So did Quebecois. But it's still French. Don't be such a twat. And stop assuming you're better read and educated. You're not. You are so insecure, always needing to put others down, and saying how right and smart you are (not).

Priceless. This just gets better and better.
Please investigate "psychological projection."

[Dalek Prime]

Sad thing is, you don't recognize it in yourself.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Sad thing is, you don't recognize it in yourself.

It would help if people would take care to use 'quote' correctly. Your quotes are showing Hobbes as PE and vice versa. They are polar opposites.

[Dalek Prime]

Sad thing is, you don't recognize it in yourself.

It would help if people would take care to use 'quote' correctly. Your quotes are showing Hobbes as PE and vice versa. They are polar opposites.

Are they? I haven't changed a thing save hitting the quote button. What would you have me do? That's like blaming me for hitting the light switch on one lamp, and another one turning on. I'll keep it in mind though.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Sad thing is, you don't recognize it in yourself.

It would help if people would take care to use 'quote' correctly. Your quotes are showing Hobbes as PE and vice versa. They are polar opposites.

Are they? I haven't changed a thing save hitting the quote button. What would you have me do? That's like blaming me for hitting the light switch on one lamp, and another one turning on. I'll keep it in mind though.

It's a bit further back on this page. I can't post it because of the number of quotes. It was Hobbes who said there is no language :British.....
I think the problem started on the previous page though, not with you.

[Skip]

It seems that way to me. I know that British isn't taught at American public schools going all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt. Why should I spell theater, theatre?, when theater is the official spelling in the US. The UK would do better to focus on itself than expect the US to fall under their dominion again.

PhilX

Trying to be imperialistic? America, China, Africa, Australia and Malaysia speaks English because the British empire once covered so much of the world. You are, like it or not, the detritus of that empire. Poor spelling isn't the same as inventing a new language. Still resenting the parent, after having built your own empire and gone into decline. Get over it!

[Dalek Prime]

You know who built the British Empire? Those who left to colonize, not those who stayed in Britain.

[Skip]

Well, there was a bit of to-ing and fro-ing, shipping and trading, re-posting and retiring, fighting, looting, getting married and getting rich, putting down revolts and making laws, killing local wildlife and catching malaria, cultivating coffee and cirrhosis, going mad and going broke, before any colonies divided off into new countries. But, on the whole, yes, empires are consolidated by the settlers who stay. They spoke English and, rather than learn the various indigenous languages, they forced the natives to learn English.
That sure made the American financial empire easier to build.
Lots of Americans and Canadians are still tracing their 'roots' back those two little islands. Heritage is nothing to be ashamed of.