Why are english people so more celver than the Americans?
450989
"celver" or CLEVER???\n I think anybody on earth have the ability to be Clever as long as they open their mind to new things that are happening everyday. \n I also think there are more American inventors than English investors, but then who cares? We all learn from each of them!
997031
There are lots of stereotypes in the UK:\n- lower class people ("chavs") wear imitation brand sports gear, with their trousers tucked into their socks, take part in mild illegal activity, get drunk at least every Friday, and have a penchant for watching or taking part in reality chat shows like "Trisha".\n- middle class people are always anxious, have (or at least their children have) allergies (wheatgerm intolerance, etc.), and are the most concerned about class status (they're known as the "chattering class")\n- upper class people play polo, live in large houses with really old, worn furniture, look down on everyone of a lower class, are pro-hunting and vote Conservative.\n- mechanics are sexist, overweight and always think they are God's gift to women, and invariably have a pin-up calendar of semi-clad nubile women.\n- old people always talk about "the war" (WWII), are partially, if not completely deaf, moan about the youth of today and drink unnatural amounts of tea.\n- for British people in general: "no sex please, we're British" (which is ironic as our country has the highest rate of adolescent pregnancy in Europe), the stiff upper lip, and we are the world experts at queuing and humour.
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Most definately,\ninstead of using "english" spellings, people are becoming more familiar with the "american" spellings, nothing wrong with that but it will not do you wonders if you are sitting in the UK\n\nthe use of contractions means that people are using shorter words therefore not expanding their vocabulary
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First of all, how do you know that Americans make more spelling mistakes than their British counterparts...do you have a magically nationality tag for everyone you observe in the fora?  Also, if you're going to cast stones, you shouldn't do it in a glass house (your question is grammatically incorrect, which you should know as a Latin student).  "make more spelling mistakes..."\n\nBesides flaws in your logic and empirical method, you should understand that American Standard and British Standard English use different orthographic systems.  In America, one writes color, for example, instead of colour.  \n\nIt is true that there are many poor spellers on the internet.  However, is this related to an inability to spell of is it shorthand that is used in chat rooms, like M8 for mate?  There is an entire lexicon of chat "code: that is used.  All things being equal, there are at least eight times more Americans on the internet than Brits (based on population) so you certainly will see more of them, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are bad spellers.\n\nI might add that the American education system doesn't emphasize rote memorization and doesn't even reward spelling any more.  Many papers are done on computers with software that has spell check, which doesn't facilitate spelling practice.\n\nMay I add also that your prompting..."Because americans..." is begging for insulting comments in context to your question, which is pejorative to begin with (it also assumes every "American" is the same.   By the way, are you referring to Canadians and Mexians and Argentines, too? Because we are all Americans...we just aren't citizens of the United States).  It really interesting to see all the people that profess disliking Americans who nonethelss use Yahoo! (sorry, it is an American service) and somehow think that America became an economic superpower depsite the fact that the country if full of ignorant people (it isn't...Americans are ordinary people who have extraordinary opportunities and use them within a Calvinist cutlure that values success and merit over birth...which is the key to their success).
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The brits hate americans because in britain they have a "class system" which in america there is also a class system but its alot more prevalent in the UK. The brits instictively want to find out what a persons class system is when they start a conversation and this same need follows them everywhere. A brit wants to feel superior to an American but the problem with the UK is that it has alot of very poor brits. The US has alot of money so brits will throw their "culture" at americans as fast as they can so the can feel they're a higher "class" even if they're a lower class brit.
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I think because English people are sympathetic towards our American cousins and make that extra effort to not give in to frustration and correct their grammar/spelling at every other corner. Due to the fact that the language most Americans speak is also understood by most native English speakers then they justify it as being English.\nCalling it American would cause a political rift in Anglo-US relations and probably allow the spoken and written accuracy level of American to sink to even further lows than it has already. By keeping English as a role-model, they hope to at least retain some vestige of respect for the history and culture of their country.
63388
English is not easy.  It is one of the hardest languages in the world to speak, read and write.  American English is even worse than Brittish English.
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I'm American and I don't think they do. I think some of us think that we are inferior though.
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Americans love success, the love to win and be right.\n\nThey don't like the fact they elected Bush, he has made a lot of bad decisions which means the American people having to admit they were wrong.\n\nWe Brits are diffrent, we're amazed when we are right.
1102320
in our western world we are more civilized...\nafter all...we have the jetsons...\nin the eastern world you still have the flinstones...
1033731
I'm English and we're great. Not sure about the British.
1062329
Alot more than you think...\n\nMost of our words are derived from European roots.  Most of our food is European based.  Most of the good Rock and Roll from the 70's were from a European country (England).
87948
In some ways, Americans are very positive.  Maybe a better question would be:\n\nAre Americans more postive than people in other countries?\n\n"nationalities" is a problematic term.
595366
Neither.  There are a number of different American dialects and a number of different British dialects.  Moreover, in some ways, (standard) American English is more "conservative" (has changed less from older forms of the language) than (standard--RP) British English.  Also, it wasn't the *British* who spread the language throughout the world; it was the *English*.  The Welsh and Scots (and Irish if you mean "British Isles" rather than "Great Britain") only started speaking English (rather than their original Celtic languages) under rule by England.
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perhaps people from the UK.
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I am American myself and I asked a similar question on this site, yet i may have phrased it offensively since many took offense. I asked who thought Americans were arrogant and dumb. Many foreigners thought that Americans are. What I think is: America is a very powerful country and with this comes big weights, people tend to be more arrogant and closed-minded since they think America is so great and other countries do tend to be jealous. I have experienced it being born and living here, some are that way, yet there are many who are not arrogant or dumb but open-minded, and they have to take the stereotypics.
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The problem here is people can't think outside of the box. Americans just love to segregate, and pretend we're the cream of the crop. People forget we're all in this world together, no country is better than another country, we're just all people populating the world.