Add american english to the languages

[smartguy]

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I live in america, I speak american, I shouldn't be forced to speak in a foreign accent.

[Wolfi]

Nobody "forces" you to participate in any SCS websites, be it forum, blog, or any SCS social media. If you don't like the options available to you, feel free to leave.

[Axel Slingerland]

How do you speak with a foreign accent when you're typing? If I were walk up to you and say "How's it goin', eh?" in an eastern Canadian accent, something I picked up years ago ago from a business partner that I spoke to on the phone quite often, you could possibly think I was Canadian. But if I type it, there's no accent. It's just text on your monitor.

While you can sort of write something to look like an accent, such as what is commonly referred to as Bostonian in my old circle of friends. For example, Instead of typing "You park your car by the star to go to Harvard Yard," you would type it as "You pahk yuh cah by the stah to go to Havahd Yahd."

Although there are many minor differences between British English and American English (there is actually no such language as American, we speak English, we just Americanized it), such as the words colour and color, defence and defense, etc., and the meanings of some words are different, such as Tea in the UK is not the same as Tea in the US, if hang around this very international forum long enough and you'll get used to it.

[TwinShadow]

I think this was just an obvious troll bait post. Because "English [GB]" has been the standard in a phpBB install for literal years now. So really, take the complaint to phpBB themselves.

[acia]

smartguy you're saying...

[Prince]

Troll post or not, there are differences between proper English and American English. In American English, some words are written differently (tyre vs tire), some words are dumbed down (horse riding vs horse back riding), while others are completely different (sidewalk vs pavement).

[Aziz]

Yeah, and none of those words are used to create the forum. If they appear, it's by the users who are allowed to mix up all different dialects of English. Forum, being in English [UK] won't automatically translate when someone types hood instead of bonnet.

[handasa]

First time I've realized that accents can show up in writing. I always thought they were only noticeable in speaking, i was wrong