Non-Native English Speakers: Which English is more important?

[Provost Harrison]

And the proper accents in the US and UK are not even wildly different...although some Scottish accents are starting to get a bit tough.

[Al B. Sure!]

No, English = language of England. Of course there's nothing special about London or else it would be Londonese.

Where exactly are you going with this? You're boring me.

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, get your own bloody language!

[Barnabas]

I wonder if Barnabas posts on Spanish-language forums and people from Spain criticize the Latin versions of the language for not using vosotros.

In some forums they do make fun of latin american spanish dialects, but it is rather silly, since nowadays spanish is important mainly because of latin america, and also because latin america has produced more great writers than Spain since the XIX century.

Nowadays Portuguese is the language of Brazil, studying Portuguese from Portugal is almost nonesensical. 200 million people new big power beats 10 million people irrelevant euro country. And Portuguese from Brazil and Portuguese from Portugal are truly quite different.

[giblets]

Where exactly are you going with this? You're boring me.

You're boring me with your "DURR what does English have to do with London?" comments.

[Al B. Sure!]

In some forums they do make fun of latin american spanish dialects, but it is rather silly, since nowadays spanish is important mainly because of latin america, and also because latin america has produced more great writers than Spain since the XIX century.

Nowadays Portuguese is the language of Brazil, studying Portuguese from Portugal is almost nonesensical. 200 million people new big power beats 10 million people irrelevant euro country. And Portuguese from Brazil and Portuguese from Portugal are truly quite different.

So it's just like how the USA has been far more significant and important than Britain since after WW2 but the British still have arrogance...

and even idiots like gribbler seem to think the English hold some sort of monopoly on the language!

Thank you, Barnabas

[Ben Kenobi]

I heard your education system sucks ass.

Good thing you are representing Philly...

[Al B. Sure!]

Good thing you are representing Philly...

The best of the best From the best school in the city, and the 40something best in the country!

[Tupac Shakur]

It's no TJ.

[Cort Haus]

So it's just like how the USA has been far more significant and important than Britain since after WW2 but the British still have arrogance...

and even idiots like gribbler seem to think the English hold some sort of monopoly on the language!

You're the arrogant one, Speer. Fanatically parochial, small-minded and incapable of recognising or having any respect for any worldview outside your own city, let alone your own country.

Help yourself to our language. It's still our language.

[Cort Haus]

Did he say Romford at the beginning? He looks it Actually I couldn't understand him when he went off into that fast rap...but I don't think anyone could without properly dissecting it. The rest is fairly clear, if a bit of an overdone cockney accent.

It's not cockney. Not at all.

[Provost Harrison]

Ah, it all sounds southern to me

[Dinner]

Why am I not surprised Albie doesn't understand that Cockney is a regional accent and not a standard British accent (not there is a standard British accent any more then there is a standard American accent).

[C0ckney]

So it's just like how the USA has been far more significant and important than Britain since after WW2 but the British still have arrogance...

and even idiots like gribbler seem to think the English hold some sort of monopoly on the language!

Thank you, Barnabas

you're an idiot and you know nothing. what barnabas is saying doesn't support your position.

portuguese from portugal and protuguese from brasil are different, far more so than english and american english. i find it very hard to understand someone from portugal (open your mouth, pronounce the whole word!). quite a lot of vocabulary is different. more importantly, there are grammatical differences (on brasil tu is rarely used, vos never, reflexive verbs are different, the way pronouns and verbs are combined is different etc.). the variations between english in america, australia, canada etc. are very minor in comparison.