Opinion of referring to the Labour party as 'Labor'?

[Vosem]

I hate British spelling with a passion

What the hell is wrong with you?

I was being hyperbolic obviously, but yeah, it kinda annoys me for some reason. Maybe because I want to be a patriotic 'Murican, or because I'm a mild Anglophobe. I don't know, it just sounds off. The American way feels more straightforward and authentic.

You're not even an American.

I'm culturally American.

No you're not.

I was obviously trolling BRTD, but I knew some dumbass would soon come over and not get it.

You can quickly become culturally American by making a purchase at the gun show nearest you

[SATW]

Horrible. Just Horrible.

I only use the term "Labor Party" to refer to Israel's center-left party or the Australian Labor Party. It's Labour Party in the cases of the UK and Ireland.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

In countries that use the British spelling of the word, I think it's pretty awful and intellectually dishonest.

I prefer British spellings —The Queen's English is best English.

And Z is pronounced "zed." 

Anyway, the language differences between American and British English have always annoyed me.  Brits were speaking English way before Americans were, so I don't see what right we have to mess with it.

[Хahar 🤔]

Anyway, the language differences between American and British English have always annoyed me.  Brits were speaking English way before Americans were, so I don't see what right we have to mess with it.

lol

[dead0man]

In countries that use the British spelling of the word, I think it's pretty awful and intellectually dishonest.

I prefer British spellings —The Queen's English is best English.

And Z is pronounced "zed." 

Anyway, the language differences between American and British English have always annoyed me.  Brits were speaking English way before Americans were, so I don't see what right we have to mess with it.

You say that as if the English spoken in England today is the same as it was in 1780.  It's not.  They've changed, so have we (and so has all her other colonies).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I see that you have never visited the Black Country or the Forest of Dean

[dead0man]

I didn't know what you meant, until a little Google Fu....the wiki for Black Country dialect.  But that kind of just puts a stamp on my point, most English don't speak the same English they spoke 300 years ago.  Neither do Americans (or Aussies or Kiwis or our canuckleheaded northern cousins).

[Antonio the Sixth]

Anyway, the language differences between American and British English have always annoyed me.  Brits were speaking English way before Americans were, so I don't see what right we have to mess with it.

lol

That's a strangely... French view of language.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

But that kind of just puts a stamp on my point, most English don't speak the same English they spoke 300 years ago.  Neither do Americans (or Aussies or Kiwis or our canuckleheaded northern cousins).

It's more that it's useful to remember that there's more stability in some regions (many of them quite large) than is always acknowledged, though even within these areas things evolve. When Alan Garner read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for the first time he noticed that most of the supposedly archaic/extinct words used in it were ones that his father used regularly.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Though it's also worth noting that English as a prose language and as a language of officialdom in practice only dates back to the 16th century and spelling was only really standardised a couple of centuries after that. And still isn't in some respects as my use of 'standardised' demonstrates

[Phony Moderate]

It's slightly less irritating than 'liberal PM Gordon Brown'.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

In countries that use the British spelling of the word, I think it's pretty awful and intellectually dishonest.

I prefer British spellings —The Queen's English is best English.

And Z is pronounced "zed." 

Anyway, the language differences between American and British English have always annoyed me.  Brits were speaking English way before Americans were, so I don't see what right we have to mess with it.

You say that as if the English spoken in England today is the same as it was in 1780.  It's not.  They've changed, so have we (and so has all her other colonies).

True, but I would argue that even British English in its modern form is the purest form of English, because it comes from the region where the language originated.

[Antonio the Sixth]

In countries that use the British spelling of the word, I think it's pretty awful and intellectually dishonest.

I prefer British spellings —The Queen's English is best English.

And Z is pronounced "zed." 

Anyway, the language differences between American and British English have always annoyed me.  Brits were speaking English way before Americans were, so I don't see what right we have to mess with it.

You say that as if the English spoken in England today is the same as it was in 1780.  It's not.  They've changed, so have we (and so has all her other colonies).

True, but I would argue that even British English in its modern form is the purest form of English, because it comes from the region where the language originated.

Why is language "purity" so important?