Author Topic: Who says americans arent good at math  (Read 2787 times)

forget you, take the unnecessary u out of COLOR
sorry, want me to give you a colouring book?

USA invented the internet and video games. How can any basement dweller from any country show any hate toward us?

still better than a terrorist.
I won't tolerate commies in MY country!

Either you're making no sense, or are confused over the argument.

The English (England and Britain) way of spelling it is "Maths" and "Mathematics". This is correct.

The Americans corrupted form of English spells it "Math". This is wrong and nonsensical.
yeah, that's what i was saying

USA invented the internet and video games. How can any basement dweller from any country show any hate toward us?
"False! Some obscure european hermit in his basement invented it first but some American(s) took the glory!"
« Last Edit: March 29, 2013, 11:33:48 AM by Tom Gunn »

Either you're making no sense, or are confused over the argument.

The English (England and Britain) way of spelling it is "Maths" and "Mathematics". This is correct.

The Americans corrupted form of English spells it "Math". This is wrong and nonsensical.

We don't speak your way of English it's called dialect. Canadians don't speak your way or our way either. Why do people honestly get mad at this? "We speak correct English hurr durr" well English originated in Germany and you guys don't speak it the way the Germans did so forget off with your corrupt version. In fact you don't even speak it anywhere close to how you originally spoke it, it's called evolution. We have evolved the English language to fit us and you evolve it to fit you. Although I'd argue American English makes the most sense we take out a lot of unnecessary letters to optimize it and we also don't randomly make letters silent in words, whenever I hear people with really thick British English they make like half the consonants silent "ello ave u seen my new cah" like wtf is the point of the h and the r if you're not even going to use them?

english should be renamed to american ffs

We don't speak your way of English it's called dialect.
I don't have a problem (for the most part) with the pronunciation that you use. A large number of the words that are used incorrectly are often just spelt wrong, for the entire sake of laziness.
Why do people honestly get mad at this? "We speak correct English hurr durr" well English originated in Germany and you guys don't speak it the way the Germans did so forget off with your corrupt version.
This is an exceedingly poor simplification of the history of English.
The English language is derived from over 2000 years of mixture of various different languages, including Germanic languages, Celtic, a very large dependency on Latin and Medieval French, and also on Greek.

The Germans never spoke English. They spoke German, or the various sub-languages which used to make up the regionalised areas of what is now modern day Germany.
English is from England, and it is the language of the English people.

The take on it that the people of the USA have is a corruption of the English language. It is directly derived from the well-established English language.
It stems primarily from differences made when the Webster Dictionary was first published in America.
In fact you don't even speak it anywhere close to how you originally spoke it, it's called evolution.
I don't deny the fact that there is evolution of language, and it is a good thing.
The problem is that there are two conflicting evolutions of the same language, both called English.
While the two are primarily identical, there are key differences, which for the most part come about from a laziness in pronunciation and linguistics of the American People.
We have evolved the English language to fit us and you evolve it to fit you. Although I'd argue American English makes the most sense we take out a lot of unnecessary letters to optimize it
The "optimisation" of the American version of English is nothing more than removing letters for the sake of making it easier to write.
There are countless examples where Americanisations change a word out of laziness.

The removal of "U" in many words, most famously in "colour", is for a lazy reason. You remove the U, yet make no difference in pronunciation. It's nonsensical to remove it for no reason other than "It's shorter now".
It removes the history of the linguistics too. The reasoning behind "our" in words is that it's an Anglo-French connection, relating to the Old French suffix's, following the Norman conquest of Anglo-Saxon Britain. This is the creation of the English language.

It's the same with the swapping of the suffix "-re" with "-er" in America.
Words like Centre become Center. The pronunciation is the same, yet you change it around just for the sake of changing it.
Again removing the connection it has to it's roots, coming from French, Latin and Greek.

Another that you just change for what appears to be lack of intelligence, is "Sulphur" to "Sulfur". It's as if you are completely appauled and detered from using 2 letters where you could lazilly just use 1.

And then there are places where you just ignore logical spelling and go for something entirely different.
Aliminium becomes "Aliminum".
Traditionally, the discoverer of Aluminium wanted to name it "Alumium", but then changed to "Aluminum".
The rest of the world decided "Aliminium" worked best, since it fit in with the same naming conventions as other metals, but the Americans decided they were against that and adopt the easiest style, and now sound like complete idiots when they pronounce it.
and we also don't randomly make letters silent in words, whenever I hear people with really thick British English they make like half the consonants silent "ello ave u seen my new cah" like wtf is the point of the h and the r if you're not even going to use them?
I'd first have to ask what you're describing as thick "British", because from the sounds of it, you're listening to someone with an accent.
And the thing about accents is that they vary from place to place and take slight differences to how they pronounce things.
And as to any one in Britain who does pronounce words with half the consonants, they are equally dim-witted and lazy. There are British accents that I can't stand for their lack of pronunciation.

lol this was a joke thread but seriously what did i expect

That is the smartest calculator on Earth (which is all owned by America of course.)
Can you play games on it?

Can you play games on it?
Yeah, I play fruit ninja on mine during math.

Yeah, I play fruit ninja on mine during math.

I mean good games like Uncharted.

I mean good games like Uncharted.
Yeah, you can even play Crysis 3 at max settings.

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I said English originated from Germany which it did, I never implied anything more than that. Optimization isn't really "lazy" it's just the American style. Americans don't really have that "this is the way it's always been so it has to stay that way" mentality if they see a way to simplify things they simplify it. Not sure why aluminium was changed to aluminum but honestly big deal you're going to cry about 1 word? Also if you look into the origins of words that differ from America to England you will find quite a bit of American words actually more closely resemble their latin or french routes where England was the one to optimize or change the word later on so you could argue they change words merely out of laziness. Also England English changes words that originated in America for example scalawag is an American word and you guys changed it to scallywag.

And as to any one in Britain who does pronounce words with half the consonants, they are equally dim-witted and lazy.
I feel bad for all the people you just said were mentally slow for not speaking without an accent or with a shortening of letters.