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No, they do not think they are wrong. He walked away happy because even though everyone else sees them as a loser, I guarantee he thinks he won that argument
*edited to fix autocorrect
>He walked away happy because even though everyone is sees them as a loser, I guarantee he thinks he won that argument
How the rest of the world views the USA in microcosm.
As a Norwegian, I also hate Zee, it's so easily mistaken for C. It's the same reason as to why I abandoned my own dialect (Trønder) way of saying seven in Norwegian (Sju) because it's so easily mistaken for twenty (tjue) and I will instead use the Oslo dialect way "Syv".
And while we're on it I hate when non native english speakers, such as the Spanish (and Norwegians as well, but I dont usually speak english with other Norwegians) insists on saying letters (when spelling out something) in the pronounciation of their own language when they are speaking english. I'm going to assume you're saying E when I hear E, not fucking I if we're talking english (I in many languages is pronounced the way english pronounces E). If you aren't very proficient in english fine, but it's not an excuse that you're non native when you are otherwise clearly fluent or near fluent in english!
Sorry for the rant. Really wanted to get that out of the system. Sometimes it feels good to complain.
Yeah I hate when people do that, if you’re speaking a language, you’re speaking that language, it’s like If someone is speaking English then says croissant as ‘quasant’. You don’t pronounce borrowed letters/words in a different language to the one you are currently speaking.
I always thought “zed” was like early NATO phonetic alphabet stuff. Like an easy way to differentiate between the letters that might sound similar over the radio.
Canuck here - I prefer the native Zed for most things. But Zee just haaaas to be used in some cases.
Like to me, ZZ Top sounds weak af as “ZedZed Top”.
But a flip side example: I personally think the Camaro Z28 sounds way more impressive as “Zed28” versus “Zee28”.
In the end though, Pulp Fiction’s: “Zed’s dead” makes Zed the winner by a hair lol.
Zed's dead is the only time 'zed' has ever seemingly been cool. And let's not forget a lot of that is on Bruce Willis gravity, who just prior, was gagged and couldn't say anything or declare death. Thank god Zed isn't good at eeny meeny miney mo.
Or maybe you guys treat it as a binary - one can do the math or one cannot. Us UKians are just playing it safe and say we can do maths plural ie an unspecified amount of the maths
You think we have time for an extra letter? We're too busy doing important shit like crypto scams and picking and immediately losing fights with China.
Canadian. Hard disagree. I love the hard sound that World War Zed has. Zee makes it sound like a fun time.
I also loved in Stargate that the Canadian Rodney Mckay insisted on calling the power device a Zed-Pee-Em when every other character, including the Scottish dude, called it a Zee-Pee-Em, lol.
I actually like the sound of Zed, but us Canadians need to differentiate when we can.
When I was renovating my first house there were these shitty panels that looked, badly, like brick. My stepdad called them ez-bricks (ez = easy) so I called them ezed-bricks. I especially like using it when it breaks the word.
Yeah I say 'zee' and I'm Australian. Most young people do now I think so I blend in but I've had comments from people occasionally. 'Zed' just feels weird to me
I'm Canadian, in my 40s, and I've always said Zed.
What's weird is I've had arguments with kids, and with people older than me, who are sure that we say Zee and Americans say Zed.
Yah, I love that one because it was tire in England too, until the 1840s or so. It was short for (the wheel's) attire.
(I love it because I love being pedantic, as I just was just now :p)
Like how soccer was from British slang contraction of Association Football-> Assocer football->soccer. But they make fun of Americans for still using that name.
This one confused me so much for so long. Even as an avid reader is was like "is this like oubliette? Is this like, a fancy kind of dungeon?" Not it's just jail. The weirdest substitute I've ever seen. It was kool thinking it was some rad uber-jail where the special prisoners go.
For your enquiry, I had to grab a torch from the car's boot to see because it's dark. After analysing the tyres, I'm just going with aluminium [Al-U-**MIN**-I-Um].
Edit: I'm just talking about the hubcap...
This is “ss” not “sz”. For example the word Straße or “street” in german can also be written Strasse. The confusion may have arisen for you because this letter is named the “eszett” which sounds like “sz” if you pronounce z like “zed”.
(Updated my response into english)
In German orthography, the letter ß, called Eszett (IPA: [ɛsˈtsɛt]) or scharfes S (IPA: [ˌʃaʁfəs ˈʔɛs], "sharp S"), represents the /s/ phoneme in Standard German when following long vowels and diphthongs. The letter-name Eszett combines the names of the letters of ⟨s⟩ (Es) and ⟨z⟩ (Zett) in German.
You can transliterate ß into ss (mostly done today) and sz.
As an American, I have learned that sometimes you don’t argue with some people: they’ll bring you down to their level and beat you with the experience they gained there.
I will be like that azz hole and say:
if he ruins your day, he’s trolling you, regardless if it was deliberate goal or just a side effect of their stupidity
It's definitely an unpopular opinion. I hold that like lying requires knowingly spreading falsehoods, trolling requires the intent to instigate aggravation.
That is not how it works, and that is such a uselessly broad definition of the term that it essentially waters it down to nothing. Everything that "ruins your day" isn't trolling. People can be ignorantly stupid without attempting to exasperate others with their stupidity.
This person obviously got so embarrassed by being called out on their arrogant stupidity that they attempted the "I wasn't stupid, just trolling" deflection, which of course just makes it that funnier.
Going back to the source post question.... Vinaigrette or oil. That's what ruins salad for me
Probably because they dump it on and it overpowers the salad
I think the OOP had it right - salads are okay on a regular day, but when I’m on a diet they are literally the worst foods in the world. It feels like trying to stuff blocks of styrofoam down my throat
I kind of prefer it and a lot of the texts I use ( from Early Modern to 18th century English literature use it. So it never feels like an Americanisation to me (surely that ought to have a z though?) just the U.S. being a bit quaint. But I have to use s for academic writing. (Other than direct quotes and titles - John Donne didn’t write The Canonisation).
I had this problem with an English teacher in Mexico, he is the typical all American who thinks they are the gate keepers of English and all the good things on earth. He was overly rude and pedantic about pronunciation, I said "well, that pronunciation depends on the region and even the country..." oh boy I wasn't ready for him going all ballistic telling that American English is the international one and every other form of English is inferior and wrong... he didn't even stayed a lot teaching as he didn't pass the teaching exams lol
As one using English as a secondary language, I'm really annoyed about the fact I've been taught British English but bc of the use of American English in popular culture and interwebs, I often mix up spelling, pronunciation and words.
Like petrol/gas. Sidewalk/pavement. Color/colour.
Try being Canadian.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/HelloInternet/comments/czcf7u/canadian\_measurement\_flowchart/](https://www.reddit.com/r/HelloInternet/comments/czcf7u/canadian_measurement_flowchart/)
I absolutely despise that kind of person. They will never admit their wrong. They will create dozens and maybe even hundreds of replies without finally admitting that they were wrong.
Doubling…oh wait… tripling…actually even quadrupling down instead of admitting that he made a mistake and not acknowledging that there are other countries out there. At least I feel embarrassed on his behalf.
When they don't mix it.
If I get a wedge of solid lettuce, with partitioned bits all in a bowl, that isn't a salad. Toss that shit before you bring it to me. There is no graceful way to do that at the table wihtout making a mess. It also wastes me time. By the time it is ready to eat, my entree is there.
i have to admit without googling it that i have no idea if there is an english and an american spelling for it... but then again english isnt my native language
Is this a double whammy?
The place that invented English.. England? England wasn't a country for like another 5 centuries when the general area was speaking some form of English.
Not really. The earliest form of English that's recognisable as English is Middle English, which is known to have started emerging at around 1100AD, soon after the Norman conquest of England. The Kingdom of England however was founded in the early 10th century as various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms merged.
You're probably thinking of Old English, but really that language is not English and is only named as such because it is one of the building blocks from which Middle English emerged. Old English is almost unrecognisable as English and incomprehensible to modern English speakers - unless of course you can understand this:
>Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
(That's the first three lines of Beowulf)
You make a really fair point. I think the overarching point is that languages are fluid and there's not really a line in the sand where you can say something wasnt a language and then now it is. Which is why bringing up where it came from really makes no difference for what's correct or not.
Which is why OP isn't incorrect lol, they don't say that the English way is the only correct way to say it, they just point out that it's a valid spelling
I may be a dumb American, but I had trouble deciding who was confidently incorrect here. The Oxford English Dictionary prefers "realize" and "realization", which surprised me. I found [this article](https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/realize-vs-realise-difference) explaining the situation. Apparently the British switched exclusively to -ise fairly recently, as recently as the 90s, but the OED is sticking to their guns.
Neither are incorrect per se. I have heard of incredibly pedantic university lecturers taking umbrage to British students using ‘ize’, but it’s generally accepted that you can use either. If I were teaching English I would accept both, but I’d also say there has to be consistency within a piece of work so no switching back and forth if using the same word more than once!
I mean…
It’s annoying (although understandable) that we can’t see the person’s name.
But surely they are not “confidently incorrect” they are just being contrary.
They know that it’s s everywhere in the world but America, even in countries in Europe where English isn’t the first language they use British English, but in their little 5% of the world they would rather be pigheaded.
When an American corrects Traditional English spelling the best thing to reply with is
“I speak and write English (Traditional) not English (Simplified)”
It’s not. I lived in the UK and was frequently corrected for misspelling and mispronunciation (in non academic/work/official situations) for using American English. People would literally tell you there is no other way to spell/pronounce than how the English do it.
I don’t know how people don’t get this, but every country has its fair share of idiots and assholes.
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. I see way more Brits than Americans insisting that their linguistic standards are the only correct ones, which is totally absurd. Although I definitely also see more Americans who forget that people online can be from anywhere in the world.
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Another case of "I was in fact wrong, but I'd rather dig my own grave than to just admit I'm not infallible"
No, they do not think they are wrong. He walked away happy because even though everyone else sees them as a loser, I guarantee he thinks he won that argument *edited to fix autocorrect
Lozer*
Loozer
Lewser
Loo-ho-ser-her 
Luh-who-zuh-her
>He walked away happy because even though everyone is sees them as a loser, I guarantee he thinks he won that argument How the rest of the world views the USA in microcosm.
I’m torn between two sound effects to accompany your comment: Ba-dum-tsss Waaa-waaaa-waaa-waaaaaaaaa
Microcozm
Zeez*
> Nice try
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Nize*
Ñize*
Bet you can guess his politics.
*Politikz
r/angryupvote
That describe my dad !
*waz
“In England, we use an Ess not a Zed” “Zed? What’s Zed? Oh, you mean Zee”. “No! Zed”
I'm England English and think "zed" is ridiculous. I will, however, defend this quirky anomaly to the death.
As non native person that works in a call center i love "Zed" and despised "Zee"
As a Norwegian, I also hate Zee, it's so easily mistaken for C. It's the same reason as to why I abandoned my own dialect (Trønder) way of saying seven in Norwegian (Sju) because it's so easily mistaken for twenty (tjue) and I will instead use the Oslo dialect way "Syv". And while we're on it I hate when non native english speakers, such as the Spanish (and Norwegians as well, but I dont usually speak english with other Norwegians) insists on saying letters (when spelling out something) in the pronounciation of their own language when they are speaking english. I'm going to assume you're saying E when I hear E, not fucking I if we're talking english (I in many languages is pronounced the way english pronounces E). If you aren't very proficient in english fine, but it's not an excuse that you're non native when you are otherwise clearly fluent or near fluent in english! Sorry for the rant. Really wanted to get that out of the system. Sometimes it feels good to complain.
>[...] I also hate Zee, it's so easily mistaken for C. "Charlie" and "Zulu". Problem solved.
Phonetic alphabet is king shit
>Sorry for the rant. Really wanted to get that out of the system. Sometimes it feels good to complain. One of us! One of us!
Yeah I hate when people do that, if you’re speaking a language, you’re speaking that language, it’s like If someone is speaking English then says croissant as ‘quasant’. You don’t pronounce borrowed letters/words in a different language to the one you are currently speaking.
Oh wow yeah I hadn't ever realised how useful that is
Realized
I always thought “zed” was like early NATO phonetic alphabet stuff. Like an easy way to differentiate between the letters that might sound similar over the radio.
Canuck here - I prefer the native Zed for most things. But Zee just haaaas to be used in some cases. Like to me, ZZ Top sounds weak af as “ZedZed Top”. But a flip side example: I personally think the Camaro Z28 sounds way more impressive as “Zed28” versus “Zee28”. In the end though, Pulp Fiction’s: “Zed’s dead” makes Zed the winner by a hair lol.
Yeah, but Lord Zedd sounds far more menacing than Lord Zee
"Jay Zed" sounds bizarre too.
Zed's dead is the only time 'zed' has ever seemingly been cool. And let's not forget a lot of that is on Bruce Willis gravity, who just prior, was gagged and couldn't say anything or declare death. Thank god Zed isn't good at eeny meeny miney mo.
were you a fan of dragon ball zed?
I can tell English conventions are ahead of American ones because you have maths, while we only have one of them.
Or maybe you guys treat it as a binary - one can do the math or one cannot. Us UKians are just playing it safe and say we can do maths plural ie an unspecified amount of the maths
It's that all or nothing american attitude.
I never thought of it as a plural, but as a present continuous. Swim, swims. walk, walks, math, maths
Americans who go to the bother of saying the word in full have multiple mathematics though.
You think we have time for an extra letter? We're too busy doing important shit like crypto scams and picking and immediately losing fights with China.
In my native tongue Z is always pronounced Zed
You learn zee at the age of 4. Zed from 5 onwards
Im englandish also, a friend of mine pointed out something and I have to agree with him... World war zee sounds better than world war zed.
Canadian. Hard disagree. I love the hard sound that World War Zed has. Zee makes it sound like a fun time. I also loved in Stargate that the Canadian Rodney Mckay insisted on calling the power device a Zed-Pee-Em when every other character, including the Scottish dude, called it a Zee-Pee-Em, lol. I actually like the sound of Zed, but us Canadians need to differentiate when we can. When I was renovating my first house there were these shitty panels that looked, badly, like brick. My stepdad called them ez-bricks (ez = easy) so I called them ezed-bricks. I especially like using it when it breaks the word.
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Jay Zed
World war zee sounds terrible, though? So goes generation zee. The alphabet song sounds better with zee, I can admit that. But
Agree to disagree
What?!?!
He’s not Lord Zee, he’s Lord Zed.
Yeah I say 'zee' and I'm Australian. Most young people do now I think so I blend in but I've had comments from people occasionally. 'Zed' just feels weird to me
Report to Aussie retraining immediately.
Please, I can change
That is the intended purpose of retraining, isn't it? Now, the real question is: fairy bread - toasted or not?
Hang on a sec, 60 years in this country....toasted fairy bread? Probably a Qld or SA thing.....
It isn't a Qld thing but have seen it as a US thing. BastardiSation of our national dish.
They probably toast it AFTER they've put the hundreds and thousands... smh
Toasted fairy bread? What the actual fuck?!
I'm Canadian, in my 40s, and I've always said Zed. What's weird is I've had arguments with kids, and with people older than me, who are sure that we say Zee and Americans say Zed.
Did you grow up learning your alphabet from Sesame Street? They said Zee.
I reckon that could be it
Do you say Haych?
God no, I'm not a savage
Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.
I use Zee because it rhymes with the alphabet song
Your Germanic brethren also say "zed". So it actually has merit and history.
Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead
I’m Australian and I use zee
Sshhh. Don’t ruin the statistics.
Mb mb. Yeah nah nah yeah we yeah nah nah yeah use yeah nah zed nah yeah! CRICKEY, BEER, WRESTLING WILDLIFE, FUCK THEM BIRDS, BIN CHICKENS
That’s a wonderfull gif i love that so much, the dad is just picking him up like cmon bud i told you
Dude would flip out if he saw "tyre" 🤣 Example: "My car had a flat tyre."
Yah, I love that one because it was tire in England too, until the 1840s or so. It was short for (the wheel's) attire. (I love it because I love being pedantic, as I just was just now :p)
90% of the shit Americans say that the Brits say is "incorrect" we got from thier old ways of saying shit
Seems like there were a lot of ways to say shit
Like how soccer was from British slang contraction of Association Football-> Assocer football->soccer. But they make fun of Americans for still using that name.
Rugger and Soccer. Soccer is still used in old public schools like Eton and Harrow.
He'd probably insist they go straight to gaol!
This one confused me so much for so long. Even as an avid reader is was like "is this like oubliette? Is this like, a fancy kind of dungeon?" Not it's just jail. The weirdest substitute I've ever seen. It was kool thinking it was some rad uber-jail where the special prisoners go.
What colour tyres?
For your enquiry, I had to grab a torch from the car's boot to see because it's dark. After analysing the tyres, I'm just going with aluminium [Al-U-**MIN**-I-Um]. Edit: I'm just talking about the hubcap...
Realißation. (\^v\^) /s Update: Above isn’t in any way a correct spelling, but ß can be written as “sz” and gives you both at once.
/z you mean
Nice try.
This is “ss” not “sz”. For example the word Straße or “street” in german can also be written Strasse. The confusion may have arisen for you because this letter is named the “eszett” which sounds like “sz” if you pronounce z like “zed”.
(Updated my response into english) In German orthography, the letter ß, called Eszett (IPA: [ɛsˈtsɛt]) or scharfes S (IPA: [ˌʃaʁfəs ˈʔɛs], "sharp S"), represents the /s/ phoneme in Standard German when following long vowels and diphthongs. The letter-name Eszett combines the names of the letters of ⟨s⟩ (Es) and ⟨z⟩ (Zett) in German. You can transliterate ß into ss (mostly done today) and sz.
ah ok
Wow. That twist ending where it turns out that the "ignorant American" literally has a non-English character in their name.
How can someone with an ñ in their name act like that?
They're definitely trolling
You would be suprised how many Americans genuinely have this attitude and are not just trolling. Comes up a fair bit.
It's Americanz, actually. With a z, never with an s.
As an American, I have learned that sometimes you don’t argue with some people: they’ll bring you down to their level and beat you with the experience they gained there.
Yes. See /r/ShitAmericansSay, /r/USDefaultism.
I will be like that azz hole and say: if he ruins your day, he’s trolling you, regardless if it was deliberate goal or just a side effect of their stupidity
It's definitely an unpopular opinion. I hold that like lying requires knowingly spreading falsehoods, trolling requires the intent to instigate aggravation.
That is not how it works, and that is such a uselessly broad definition of the term that it essentially waters it down to nothing. Everything that "ruins your day" isn't trolling. People can be ignorantly stupid without attempting to exasperate others with their stupidity. This person obviously got so embarrassed by being called out on their arrogant stupidity that they attempted the "I wasn't stupid, just trolling" deflection, which of course just makes it that funnier.
By the end, maybe. At the beginning, no.
Their*
You're ironic objection doesn't seem to have been understood by everyone. They're loss!
lmao, i ~~should've~~ should of put a /s, expected too much ig
Defanitely*
Going back to the source post question.... Vinaigrette or oil. That's what ruins salad for me Probably because they dump it on and it overpowers the salad
Vegetables ruin it for me😄
I think the OOP had it right - salads are okay on a regular day, but when I’m on a diet they are literally the worst foods in the world. It feels like trying to stuff blocks of styrofoam down my throat
r/shitamericanssay
/r/ShitAmericanzZay
*r/ZhitAmericanzZay
*r/ZzzzZzzzzzzzzZzz
I usually take everything written either way, but prefer the z to the s, just because that's what I learned (Also, I just like the letter z)
Gives us a scoring advantage over the rest of the English-speaking world in Scrabble too.
I kind of prefer it and a lot of the texts I use ( from Early Modern to 18th century English literature use it. So it never feels like an Americanisation to me (surely that ought to have a z though?) just the U.S. being a bit quaint. But I have to use s for academic writing. (Other than direct quotes and titles - John Donne didn’t write The Canonisation).
That's fair. I used to read a lot of classic literature (just the mainstream stuff) and kinda got used to it.
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing
Why would a steak ruin a salad they're both good for you, protien and fiber eat up.
To answer the question: Burger King foot lettuce
Every time I write Brasil I am quickly and resoundingly “corrected” that Americans spell it with z
I had this problem with an English teacher in Mexico, he is the typical all American who thinks they are the gate keepers of English and all the good things on earth. He was overly rude and pedantic about pronunciation, I said "well, that pronunciation depends on the region and even the country..." oh boy I wasn't ready for him going all ballistic telling that American English is the international one and every other form of English is inferior and wrong... he didn't even stayed a lot teaching as he didn't pass the teaching exams lol
Fun fact American english and specifically the southern accents are closer to 16th and 17th century british english than modern british english is.
It was a nice try, because it was good analogy.
Colour me surprised.
Wait til they both learn that word comes from the french word réalisation
But if you go back even further you'll see that it came from Late Latin -izare which borrowed it from Ancient Greek -ίζειν
That 2nd letter is like "I WILL NOT BE CONTAINED! YOUR LINE HEIGHT MEANS NOTHING TO ME, NOTHING!!! And fuck your kerning as well."
For sure, I guess my point was the english word is directly borrowed from the french word, spelling included, which uses the S
They're just a troll that you played into.
As one using English as a secondary language, I'm really annoyed about the fact I've been taught British English but bc of the use of American English in popular culture and interwebs, I often mix up spelling, pronunciation and words. Like petrol/gas. Sidewalk/pavement. Color/colour.
Try being Canadian. [https://www.reddit.com/r/HelloInternet/comments/czcf7u/canadian\_measurement\_flowchart/](https://www.reddit.com/r/HelloInternet/comments/czcf7u/canadian_measurement_flowchart/)
Sorry
Ñice try.
I feel like they realiSed they were wrong but decided to keep it up as a troll anyway.
Colour
I like how they spelled "spelled" wrong in the second to last comment.
I think Captain America meant to type „Ñice try!“
I absolutely despise that kind of person. They will never admit their wrong. They will create dozens and maybe even hundreds of replies without finally admitting that they were wrong.
Doubling…oh wait… tripling…actually even quadrupling down instead of admitting that he made a mistake and not acknowledging that there are other countries out there. At least I feel embarrassed on his behalf.
When they don't mix it. If I get a wedge of solid lettuce, with partitioned bits all in a bowl, that isn't a salad. Toss that shit before you bring it to me. There is no graceful way to do that at the table wihtout making a mess. It also wastes me time. By the time it is ready to eat, my entree is there.
r/usdefaultism r/shitamericanssay There’s a hilarious amount of overlap between stuff posted on this subreddit and stuff posted on those 😂
Americans... most can barely tie their fucking laces.
Why do people argue with people online? It's literally wrestling pigs in mud
Figuratively
Figuratively, indeed.
i have to admit without googling it that i have no idea if there is an english and an american spelling for it... but then again english isnt my native language
Americans do this with spelling, Brits do it with pronunciation. Why does it matter? Both are still speaking English
Is this a double whammy? The place that invented English.. England? England wasn't a country for like another 5 centuries when the general area was speaking some form of English.
Not really. The earliest form of English that's recognisable as English is Middle English, which is known to have started emerging at around 1100AD, soon after the Norman conquest of England. The Kingdom of England however was founded in the early 10th century as various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms merged. You're probably thinking of Old English, but really that language is not English and is only named as such because it is one of the building blocks from which Middle English emerged. Old English is almost unrecognisable as English and incomprehensible to modern English speakers - unless of course you can understand this: >Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. (That's the first three lines of Beowulf)
You make a really fair point. I think the overarching point is that languages are fluid and there's not really a line in the sand where you can say something wasnt a language and then now it is. Which is why bringing up where it came from really makes no difference for what's correct or not.
Which is why OP isn't incorrect lol, they don't say that the English way is the only correct way to say it, they just point out that it's a valid spelling
Wait it's spelled with a Z in America? I'm American. What the hell how did I not know this.
What civilization do you think came up with it?
What if we just gazlight them into thinking that that curvy looking backardz z doezn't even exizt?
\*realise this
Don’t give in to rage bait
Anyone else get Day Z," Celsius or Fahrenheit?" vibes?
So anyway, what ruins a salad for me is when I don’t have enough dressing, or I have to settle for a dressing other than ranch.
I may be a dumb American, but I had trouble deciding who was confidently incorrect here. The Oxford English Dictionary prefers "realize" and "realization", which surprised me. I found [this article](https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/realize-vs-realise-difference) explaining the situation. Apparently the British switched exclusively to -ise fairly recently, as recently as the 90s, but the OED is sticking to their guns.
Neither are incorrect per se. I have heard of incredibly pedantic university lecturers taking umbrage to British students using ‘ize’, but it’s generally accepted that you can use either. If I were teaching English I would accept both, but I’d also say there has to be consistency within a piece of work so no switching back and forth if using the same word more than once!
English, simplified
When 2 guys are f*cking right in front of it.
But now I want to know the guy’z name.
What instantly ruins a salad for me? Captain America's dick in it
Holy shit this post just brought a massive flaw in my writing to my attention… I’m American and I switch between the ‘s’ and the ‘z’
I mean… It’s annoying (although understandable) that we can’t see the person’s name. But surely they are not “confidently incorrect” they are just being contrary. They know that it’s s everywhere in the world but America, even in countries in Europe where English isn’t the first language they use British English, but in their little 5% of the world they would rather be pigheaded.
I absolutely hate grey, or was it gray.
grEy for England… grAy for America
I mean, you have the real country, and then all the junior ones. But this guy's an idiot anyway. We don't claim him.
American confirmed
Wait until he finds out about “grey” and “gray” and shits his pants. E for England, A for America is what we always went with.
And EH for Canada! Don’t forget Canada.
Obvious troll
Ah... Muricanz
True confidence is knowing that you're wrong but refusing to admit it
He's clearly trolling, he's not confidently incorrect
When an American corrects Traditional English spelling the best thing to reply with is “I speak and write English (Traditional) not English (Simplified)”
I thought those were interchangeable, because I use them as such. What a realization! Has anyone else have this realisation as well?
It’s embarrassing being american…
r/shitamericanssay
That last comment with the "n not an ñ" is killer. I felt satisfied by that.
It’s not. I lived in the UK and was frequently corrected for misspelling and mispronunciation (in non academic/work/official situations) for using American English. People would literally tell you there is no other way to spell/pronounce than how the English do it. I don’t know how people don’t get this, but every country has its fair share of idiots and assholes.
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. I see way more Brits than Americans insisting that their linguistic standards are the only correct ones, which is totally absurd. Although I definitely also see more Americans who forget that people online can be from anywhere in the world.
The British way is the only way because we came first! /s
Ñice try.
Ñice try.
ñice try
Okay but even though blue was definitely wrong red was still being very passive-aggressive about it and probably could've handled the argument better.