Do Americans on this site get annoyed by ENGLISH English spelling?
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Tsamaya is on semi-retirement
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No, not at all. I know that spellings differ between the two countries.
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It doesn't bother me. :)
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I don't mind
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No. I mean, it's not like it impairs my ability to read what other people write. I do get annoyed when people insist that is the right way to spell certain words, however. Thankfully, I don't see too much of that here.
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Not this American. In fact, I kind of enjoy it! <EDIT> I git far moor aniod at peepl who obveosly dont take the time 2 even TRY 2 git there speling and grammer rite... :):)
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Americans are such poor spellers that most of us don't even notice, and those who do don't care. Sometimes it isn't comprehensible--lots of us don't know that "gaol" means "prison" and is pronounced "jail"--but usually it's not any kind of problem at all. Sometimes it confuses us, is all. We don't know what a chemist is, what the boot and bonnet are, or where to find the loo. We don't know what a roundabout is or that chips are actually hot. And your slang is ... come to think of it, your slang is no harder for the average Caucasian Yank than ghetto slang is. Besides, we generally love your accents.
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we should be used to it. i mean, if we can talk in acronyms and deliberate typos , we should be able to handle correct spelling from others who speak our language.
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No, not at all.
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I enjoy the quaint and archaic.
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No, I think it's cool. I like their slang also.
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I'm Scottish do I fall into that catergory, ken whit I mean? only joking
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I don't really know if they get annoyed or not but at times they do not understand the words which are used. An example : A day or two ago I asked a question: A tree gives support to the creeper . What does the tree get? The answerer who I know for a fact is very articulate person was totally confused because I used the word creeper while in America they would say vines.
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Nope. Why would that annoy us?
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