Re: Is this offensive, or are they just over compensation-reactions?
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You are American and therefor spell colour and neighbourhood incorrectly.
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Color and neighborhood are the correct official spellings in American English. We have dictionaries that tell us so. I know you're making a joke, but it doesn't really work IMO.
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Language is really dynamic, i may make jokes about how you spell stuff (and ive once had someone hear questioning my intelligence because i spelt a few words like they are correctly spelt) but language nazi'ism is really pathetic.
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Not sure who you think is being a language nazi. I just don't agree with the general idea that one way of speaking English is just as good as another. If that's the case, why did my teachers tell us this stuff was important? Why did they try to make us learn grammar?
To be clear, I'm not talking about accents. Bill Clinton and Tony Blair both pronounce their words very differently, but both speak the English language very well. I'm not really talking about slang so much, either. I'm talking about this kind of stuff:
"I seen your ex-girlfriend at the bar the other night."
"We was all having a good time."
"Why can't they do it theirself?"
Tons of people in my neck of the woods talk just like this, even a couple of my friends I grew up with. I dare say my speech is better than theirs, because I do not make these errors.
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