Let's consolidate English and American

Trevor Morley's Tache said:
The @ symbol is in a fucking stupid place on the US keyboard layout. shft +2 has always been "inverted comma", aka double-quote marks.
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I knida get the logic behind ' and " being on the same key with them sort of looking the same, but it's fucking annoying when you have to switch between UK and US keyboards.
 
And another thing: Why is it on all the forms I've ever filled out in the USA, why does it never have 'British or English' under Nationality or country of birth? It's always 'United Kingdom'. I absolutely baffled the woman at the Social Security office when I put 'Manchester, England down as place of birth when I applied for my SSN.
 
Tuearts right boot said:
Was over there a few times in the 00's and remember an expat telling me if in the UK you were a joiner, you were a carpenter and if you were a brickie, you were a stone mason......
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Carpenters usually construct items on construction sites and tend to work on the components of building construction. For example, they may spend most of their time erecting timber walls or building roof trusses. They also frequently fit the products that joiners create, such as staircases or cabinets, into the structure.

Joiners generally make complete products out of lumber, such as windows, frames or doors for a new building. They also build items like fitted furniture or staircases. Additionally, a joiner might repair or replace worn or damaged elements of a home. For example, they might create a replica of an antique door. Joiners also build most of their items offsite, including more complex structures like staircases, then the carpenter installs their finished product in the building.

And a Bricklayer lays bricks. Stone masons work with stone.

I'm a carpenter.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
And another thing: Why is it on all the forms I've ever filled out in the USA, why does it never have 'British or English' under Nationality or country of birth? It's always 'United Kingdom'. I absolutely baffled the woman at the Social Security office when I put 'Manchester, England down as place of birth when I applied for my SSN.
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I once caused a mild commotion on a flight back to Manc by objecting to announcements by the stewardess (flight attendant) that we were going to "Manchester, United Kingdom" because she repeatedly left out the pause between the first and second words, thus making it sound like the whole land belonged to the rags.
 
In a diner today I baffled the guy at the counter by asking for a glass of WAR-TER instead of the word for people who work in prisons (gaols, that is.)

Then there's the American insistence on saying "HALF time" and "WORLD Cup" (and more) instead of putting the emphasis on the second word in the pair.

And while we're at it someone needs to sort out the confusion caused by how the British and Yanks write the dates. Day or month first? 7/10 or 10/7?
Good thing D-Day in 1944 was on 6/6.
 
As Microsoft and all the other tech companies have transferred to a model of licensing their products for an exorbitant annual fee, we should do the same with the English Language.

How much revenue would it raise it we required every English speaker outside of England to pay £12 per year for the privilege? Charge it to the country, with a £30 discount for early payment.

Cue some daily newspaper nicking the idea as an April Fools joke, or an offshore call centre sending fake scam invoices to gullible foreign governments such as Australia.
 
mexico1970 said:
There isn't any such thing as American, just bad English. Doi we use the term Australian English or Scottish or Welsh English?
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How about Brummie, Scouse, Geordie, Cockerneee, Yocal etc? There isn’t a single version in England let alone as you say, Wales, Sweat or Norn
 
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