Speaking of which, isn't it time to consider American English to be the standard one?

Colour and licence are so quaint.

smcleod 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Well, only Americans use it. There's no point in arguing about it your version of a language is better or worse but for the rest of the world it's incredibly annoying having to correct Zs with Ss when using LLMs or American only software.

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Andrew_nenakhov 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm actually Russian. The whole world uses American English, by virtue of US dominance in all important technical and cultural spheres.

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smcleod 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"The only whole world uses American English" ... I think you might be living in a bubble. It sticks out like a sore thumb.

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larnon 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He is actually correct. I am neither American nor English.

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smcleod 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's certainly not the case in the majority of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, East Africa, West Africa, South Africa, PNG, Fiji, Philippines, South Asia and South East Asia. Really it's mostly just America and Canada that use American.

I could cite many sources but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_s... provides a simple view.

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gamegod 12 hours ago | parent [-]

We don't use American English in Canada either.

	▲	smcleod 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh! I'm sorry, I must have misread!

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bigDinosaur 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Commonwealth nations tend to not use American English. They form a fairly major part of the world.

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beAbU 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I honestly don't think this is true. In many places outside the US our devices will default to US spelling, making it appear as if the language spoken by the locals is US English.

But when you look at things like the type of English being taught in school, or the language used by the government, it'll be UK/International English.

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Andrew_nenakhov 15 hours ago | parent [-]

I regularly correspond to people from all over the world, India, China, Brazil, France, and they all tend to use US English, thus the suggestion.

Commonwealth countries are relatively minor in population compared to the USA and the rest of the world.

And yes, default US spelling in devices does play a role. See prev. point about technological and cultural dominance.

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macintux 13 hours ago | parent [-]

> Commonwealth countries are relatively minor in population compared to the USA and the rest of the world.

Given India's presence in the Commonwealth, this seems an odd assertion. 2.6 billion people live in the Commonwealth[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Commonwea...

	▲	Andrew_nenakhov 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Kinda forgot India is still part of the Commonwealth. Maybe because all Indians I ever corresponded with uniformly used US spelling, likely because they work a lot with the USA. YMMV.

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beAbU 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think we need to call American English "American", then you can speak American and I can speak English.

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richrichardsson 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I could care less about this attempt at trolling, but I won't.

We have enough American cultural hegemony as it is. It frustrates me no end that I regularly am unable[1] to configure software to use my preferred version of English.

[1] or it's extremely difficult. CLion I'm looking at you; every available option I have is set to British English, but still you insist on telling me my Colours should be corrected to Color etc. :(

	▲	adastra22 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		English is a bastard language of French and Saxon. But we don’t get upset over that because Britain made the world English. Now the USA is making the world American. That ship has sailed.

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42lux 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Europe still teaches British English in schools.