Bing and Google are run by American countries IIRC.
Also, for the red line, find a UK dictionary for your browser.
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I think it's more about how you ask the question. It's a little unnecessary. Also, it's a little silly to blame America for encouraging innovation and having business success.
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america doesnt cause all of the problems in the world. its just that people seem to care more about what the americans do, in fact every fucking developed country in the world causes as much problems to others as america. even third world countries still manage to píss off and cause problems to others, but you dont know since it doesnt it involve your country or america then its not worth talking (media logic)
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Why would I get into that? Your topic was related to search engines requiring American English spelling.
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Freedom? As in freedom to do what American's Government tell you to do freedom? I never understood how American's consider themselves a free nation, when they are ruled with an iron fist, lied to and spied upon by their own government. 51% of their tax payers money ends up going towards war and spying, rather than healthcare or education, it's quite sad that the media even blindsides them into thinking they are doing good.
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The British English language stole words from everyone else.
The American English language made a few changes and removed the watermark.
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My post was before the edit.
Also, stole is fair, just look at this quote.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
--James D. Nicoll
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Technically, there should be a comma after "you".
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y u mad tho. What are you even talking about even, what red line lol
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Bah, I'm a Kiwi. We seem to be taught a bastard mix of the two. Most of my words are to British English standards though.
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Lolz...I'm in America but for some reason, I always spelled armor and honor as armour and honour in my younger years. Was confused why word processors always gave me a red zigzag until one of my teachers explained about the difference...
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Also it depends on your audience. If I'm writing something for an American audience or recipient, I'll generally switch on my US dictionary and try to get my brain into "US English" mode!
Still can't bring myself to use semantically nonsensical phrases like "I could care less", though :)
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Ah, so he's just [insert synonym for stupid, but not as harsh].
Boooo- I'm too [mentioned word] to actually change the default settings for my browser and word processor -hoooo
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Anger issues *
'Anger Management' is the, well, management of anger. That, and a VERY bad film.
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Paraphrase: "I can't type a full sentence without a red line under it".
This has nothing to do with America, and everything to do with learning how to use a computer.
If you have a red line in your software indicating a spelling mistake, you have it set to US English, change it in options to UK English.
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Actually, the protocol is called http, www is only a reference to the world wide web that's built upon that. ;)
And considering that's actually what you're using to see this very page, I don't think it added much confusion. You would rather everyone still use irc, ftp and gopher? (From command prompts I presume)
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It's just a common nomenclature to identify the address of the website. It helps when a site have ftp, mail and other servers to identify which one is the web server by using the www on the DNS entry.
Some sites choose to do without, or simply default to the web sever when no prefix is applied to the address. I only started using the internet in 1994 but it was not as common back then to omit the www prefix, as far as I can remember.
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Read this please : Hypertext Transfer Protocol
or stop writing
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Your browser does it differently. Mine has browser language settings (aka, menu text) in the options and dictionary on right click.
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I haven't been to AnimeAddventure for years. I once tried writing something on the site, but it was removed because the chapters were too short. :(
In the end, I uploaded my work to FanFiction.net
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I'm guessing you're a secret Stateside spelling sympathiser (or "sympathizer", perhaps...) and have American spellings enabled in your browser spell checker?
-_-
Here is how you can fix it (in Firefox, anyway... The procedure will be similar in other browsers...)
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Maybe you're spelling everything wrong. It's "color," not "colour" dumbass ;).
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We should agree to disagree about spelling and just accept that English as a whole is a terrible language that thrives on arbitrary spelling, an alphabet with unnecessary letters like C, Q, X and J and that both British English and American English are both heavily butchered and completely wrong Old Anglo-Saxton English! :D
No? Guess all of us will have to be illiterate as we accept words like "colonel", "aren't" and "everyday" as normal and neither of us can even spell "Briton" correctly anymore, as it actually was originally spelt that way centuries ago.
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The "J" sound is just "D" with a "Zh" sound attached to it, and that is exactly how the International Phonetic Alphabet classifies the English J.
Similarly, "C" is contextually either identical to "K" or "S", X is either "Z" or "Ks" and "Qu" is identical to "Kwa".
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Actually, it'd be Dzhon since the h is silent and also technically unnecessary if either American English or British English actually followed it's own rules. :P
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I am just spelling it as it would be if the British weren't illiterate and ruined it for the Americans that they gave their English to, too. If only they did things like write "color" and "hallo" like the Latin and German people they originally copied and didn't somehow confuse "J" and "Y", since the "Y" sound is used for the letter J by almost every other language that writes in a Latin script. (i.e. for the word Hallelujah)
No hard feelings, just messing with you, but the above is true. lol
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Actually, the corruption of English started before Caucasians even settled in America, so that's not entirely true. lol
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English English was getting messed up right from the outset. No language is an island, even when it's spoken on an island!
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Don't blame the British for American language. They chose to continue using it, with their alterations to try to claim it as their own work.
And we are keeping the English language as it is. I spent more than a decade in school, I'm not going back to learn it again.
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American English is descended from British English, therefore any faults that British English has had were passed on to American English. Plus, British English isn't it's own work either, it takes heavy amounts of words from neighboring languages (and not-so-neighboring languages like Japanese) and has a common ancestor in German.
Also, the British are not in fact keeping English as it is, as the Oxford Dictionary adds new words every year and many words, definitions and spellings fall out of use over time. Resistance is futile to the self-corruption of linguistics! :P
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Even Britain itself is full of regional variations, and the accepted Queen's English will vary wildly from the form spoken in many areas of the country. As you say, there's a feedback loop where some dialectical variations, emergent words or even ones borrowed from other languages become accepted into "official" OED usage, and the language keeps evolving.
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Indeed. Language is a product of its speakers, and constantly evolving. English language of every variety is full of divergent and non-sensical corruptions and deviations from both its roots, and from any regular and universal rules.
Celebrate the differences...
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lol dont mistake my coarse language as anger, all weegies speak this way, if youve ever been to Glasgow you would know this. i also have all my settings set to UK english but still i get the red line shit. hey who knows one day your racist bigoted country will rule the world but lets hope not eh.
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Hey it's pretty good here. The Chinese food is excellent.
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Guess you'll have to use the Opera Browser with the Yandex search engine, considering that Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and AOL are all made by Americans.
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He hasn't said which browser he was using though, but did indicate that setting whichever to British English did not result in spellcheck indicating otherwise.
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Maybe it's the Glaswegian dialect, but the OP seems more intent on senselessly raging than resolving the issue :)
Good on him, though. Few things are as therapeutic as a good rant.
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Up until 2 minutes ago, I had the exact opposite problem. Chrome insisted on marking words in US English as incorrect, and UK spelling as right.
I never cared enough to change it before but it took me about 5 seconds to go in the browser settings and change what dictionary was used for spell check.
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why does EVERY fucking search engine and forum etc on the internet insist on the american spelling of words? i cant type a full fuckin (FUCK YOU AMERICA!!!!) sentence without a fuckin (FUCK YOU AMERICA!!!!) red line underneath it -.- FUCK YOU AMERICA!!!!
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