Is this offensive, or are they just over compensation-reactions?

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also, "The way I like English to be spoken." WTF, did you invent it? They probably don't like the way you talk either.

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I take issue with this. Tx didn't invent the English language, but there are rules to speaking it. Most/all people deviate from correct grammar and syntax to varying degrees. That does not mean there is not a correct way.

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You are American and therefor spell colour and neighbourhood incorrectly.

If you cant spell many of the more basic words correctly, then what hope do you all have for pronunciation?

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.

Speak how you want, write how you want. Whatever. The future of English is 'texting', and im dissapointed at that, but thats how language develops.

CU 2morrow lolz

Wont touch on the other stuff, yes, everyone has prejudices and sometimes these are classed as racism. Shock.

[daryn]

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I think it's petty funny you think that Indians have poor English, they actually usually have very good English just with an Indian accent, though if they outsourced MS support service to Scotland and you couldn't understand their accent you'd probably assume they had poor English.

I disagree with most of what you have to say and I wouldn't bother to reply to the rest of it.

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I agree with this (because shottish people cant speak english properly), but if they were in scotland I could call them a scottish [censored] and noone would say squat but if you said the same about an indian then you'd be racist because they have different skin colour. PC [censored] annoys me a lot.

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DING!


and THAT is why the whole thing is BS.

[Adelson]

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Suppose one of my pet peeves (which isn't really) is when people dont use the english language correctly, and in my time and experience in the South I've noticed that a large portion of Black people don't speak English the way I like it to be spoken.

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Case and point.

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[Dilznoofus]

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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.

[econophile]

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Case and point.

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hahah

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game, set, match.

[Dilznoofus]

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Case and point.

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hahah

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game, set, match.

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Suppose one of my pet peeves (which isn't really) is when people dont use the english language correctly

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He was using it as an example to make a larger point. He already made this clear earlier in the thread.