Is British English or American English Used More Frequently?

[Kantor]

Perpalicious said:

Kantor said:

Perpalicious said:

I got a good hoot from reading this thread. Nothing is more glamarous than seeing an English person say that Americans misspell "colour." How is spelling it "color" an error? That makes no sense.

Anyway, English is English. Calling the American use of language "lazy" is asinine. In the end, humans are built on efficiency. Think about most things and the entire essence is efficiency. Guitar? The essence of economy and economy picking. The human body? Does not waste energy and stores it for later use. Fuel efficient cars? Built a certain way to get the most fuel per kilometer. Academics? The introduction of multiple choice and scantrons or the use of teaching assistants to aid in marking. Business? The least amount of money you can spend while making the most. The list goes on. No one wants to jump through hoops of fire to accomplish a simple task.

In that case, I'll spell "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" as "cheese". It's a hell of a lot faster to type, isn't it?

Sarcasm is an unfortunate tactic. Care to elaborate your point, though? You know, in a more intelligent manner and actually state your issues with my post? Using sarcasm to simply make a jab at me doesn't really dismiss what I'm saying. That long word is inefficient and pointless. I'll point something out, though. Why are you using contractions? Why not type out "I will" or "It is" or "is it not"? You're doing it for the sake of efficiency. Furthermore, it's the same way you use grammar: you make it a more efficient to be read. Everything is based around efficiency.

More than anything else, I wanted to use the word "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" in a post. It's been several months since I've done that.

English is, indeed, English. Which is to say, it's not American. Therefore, America shouldn't really be going around and changing the language, taking out letters which really aren't all that confusing, and indeed are integral to the meaning of the word, just to make the pronunciation literal - doughnut, for example. A doughnut is made of dough. A donut is not made of do. Similarly, aluminium is a metal, and ends with the same suffix as quite a few other metals, and aluminum... really? A third example: ethanoic acid. "eth" refers to the presence of two Carbon atoms, and to the fact that it's oxidised Ethanol. So what the hell is Acetic Acid? Oxidised Acete?

Actually, there's nothing wrong with that. What's wrong is when they enforce it on everyone and set it as some stupid unchangeable default on Microsoft Word. When it is taught in schools worldwide (as seems to be clear from this thread), in place of the actual original language.

If I took the French language and took out all of the accents and called it "British French", the French would be annoyed, wouldn't they? It destroys the feel of the language.

Also, does "colour" really take that much longer to type than "color"? Did you really have to remove one-sixth of the letters to save you...what, half a second, if that?