(05-01-2023, 03:24 PM)Roscoe Wrote:(05-01-2023, 03:07 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Don't be rude Roscoe.
We are nice to each other in here, even when totally disagreeing with each other.
The way Americanisms have taken over British English words as go to choices by the media - the example being the choice to use impact over effect or affect...
The reality is American English is different from British English, as anyone engaging on US internet forums soon discovers. While we don't need translators yet, both sides have to think about the difference at times. And it isn't just spelling.
I can recall being tossed out of one forum for trying to post a phrase using the word 'bugger', common enough in New Zild, but rather rude in the mid west forum I was playing in.
Since those days though, I think the US has widened the gap even further, and as a progressive nation we have surged ahead in a number of areas, I am rather proud of that. Language though is an ever changing mode of communication, I am trying not to insist on right ways and wrong...
Though gross errors still irritate the hell out of me.
I was not meaning to be rude. I just thought that what I wrote was plain enough and you certainly understood what I meant so I did not see why others would not understand it as well.
The Americanisms annoy me as well. I, too, speak BBC English as I come from an English background and although America is a great country and I have found the Americans lovely and welcoming people, I also think that New Zealand is a great place to live and we have our own unique style of life and tongue and I would like to see NZ remain that way and not be overrun by the American way of life and way of speaking (and spelling), but it seems a pity that many people in this country don't seem to care and seem to be quite happy to take on the American way of doing things.