Posted by richy240
What is the difference???
The only thing I have found is the "£" is replaced with a "$". Has anyone else noticed any other differences?
If this has been discussed before (and I am sure it has) please accept my apologies.
Posted by Dj Boyi
Yeah,we spoke it first
Posted by wapchimp
You say tomato they say tomate-o
And potatoe - potate-oe
sidewalk = pavement
letter z (zed) = zee
etc etc
Posted by kimcheeboi
im an american
potat-oe!!!!!
yo sup everybody!
Posted by axxxr
Posted by imanuk
Speak it and spell it how you like but I want the @ key on the bottom right and the " above the 2 thanks. And I dont care where u stick your € key!
Also see - The perfect grammar thread:
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=54742#post710699
Posted by scotsboyuk
Awfully sorry to be picky, but potato is spelt without an 'e'.
Posted by wapchimp
The correct english excludes the 'e' americans spell it with an 'e'
or how they like
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Posted by kimcheeboi
oh say can you see...
yankee doodle
gw bush
yeah its america
Posted by wapchimp
Already used in another thread tonight. But worth a re-run
Posted by kimcheeboi
WHY ARE YOU POSTING TWO PICS OF THE SAME THING!?!?!?!? FROM RELATIVEY SAME ANGLES?!
nvm the one on the right looks smarter..
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Posted by richy240
What does ANY of this have to do with the language on the P900?
Posted by kimcheeboi
it says "american vs. uk english", and thats what we are discussing!
Posted by Dj Boyi
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You should've been more clear in your subject header
Im surprised nobody said it was in the wrong forum
Posted by kimcheeboi
bloody hell!
hmm now im a asian-american tourist trying to be brit!
Posted by wapchimp
lol. I didn't know it was about the P900
Posted by SonyBoy
LOL!!
Posted by kimcheeboi
whats crackin, peeps? we be chillin at my place tonight!
Posted by Dj Boyi
Posted by kimcheeboi
Posted by Dj Boyi
Posted by kimcheeboi
its an american thing...
Posted by Dj Boyi
Speak English Boy
Posted by imanuk
Ok, so is there any difference between US/UK P800 and P900 that requires a whole thread to discuss? Not having seen any Potato(e) refernces on it I doubt there can be anyhting to discuss...
Posted by wapchimp
I think this started as a serious query/thread.
Posted by imanuk
@orangeman - many do.
A more pedantically phrased question would have helped steer it in the hoped direction. But I'm not sure what that direction is?
Posted by scotsboyuk
Perhaps, someone can save us from the giddy, grammatical hieghts we are sure to soon be assailing, by closing this thread?
Posted by gelfen
americans don't speek english
seriously though, i would expect the main differences to be in the area of spelling - centre vs. center, colour vs. color, replacing english z with american s in certain words (e.g summarize/summarise), and other grammatical atrocities.
on a side note, current linguistic theory is that the american accent is something akin to how british commoners spoke during elizabethan times. this of course raises certain questions - has the american spoken word devolved to that of an illiterate society? or has it become more authentically down-to-earth "english" than the english?
on another side note, the american constitution defines the national language as that which a majority of the population speaks - which means that in the next few decades spanish could well supplant english as the national language of the USA.
Posted by kimcheeboi
GRAMATTICAL ATROCITIES?!?!?
i doan know what you talking bout or something man.
You're using your culture as a 'measuring stick'; don't do that. That's equivalent to 'criticising' the Mandarin dialect because it is different than Cantonese.
Posted by gelfen
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case closed.
sucked in - gotcha!
i'm not using my culture as a measuring stick, just the knowledge of my native tongue. in point of fact the american spoken word is becoming a dialect of english, sufficient enough are the differences in expression and verancular (especially if spoken "english" and "american" continue to diverge - although this is becomming less likely in today's world of global communications). the written word still remains fairly closely aligned, with many of the differences brought about by differences in pronunciation.
oh - and the differences between mandarin and cantonese are fairly profound compared with what we are discussing here.
suffice it to say that poor grammar, especially among those who should know better, is a bug-bear of mine.
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