Jophiel wrote:
Almalieque wrote:
You're making the argument that the term "America" is a matter of convenience of less words, yet you would rather ADD a word saying, "American English", instead of simply saying "American".
No, I said "English" was sufficient to describe the language, just as "American" is sufficient when referring to the nation.
The rest of your post was based off you getting this basic premise wrong.
Uh, no. The question was about the single usage of the term "American", not "English". You can't change the focus of the question from "American" to "English" and then claim that my premise was wrong. Your response was "wrong".
So, do you have a problem with people saying "I speak American"? Why or why not?
Using the term "English" as opposed to "American" is like using "U.S citizen" as opposed to "American". One is more specific, which is my entire point. So, if you prefer "English" as opposed to "American", given that everyone knows the exact location of "American", but not "English", you're just supporting my point.
[edit] You said that you prefer "American English", I was referring to that statement [/edit]
So, you can finish addressing the rest of my post now.
Majivo wrote:
Are you back to being a massive ******? Not every country has a unique language. Many of them have dialects of different languages. This is not a semantic difference, it's a linguistic one. Please stick to subjects where you're at least subjectively wrong.
I ask the same question to you. Are you incapable of reading and/or comprehending or are you just plum stupid? Your "counter" doesn't even make any sense. What argument are you even trying to counter? No one stated that countries have unique languages.
The point is, we call everything in the U.S. "American" except for the spoken language, so why is it ok to label our music, food, citizens, etc. "American" but not our language? What's wrong with saying "I speak American"?
Jophiel wrote:
No way, man. The reason why you speak "Spanish" and not "Argentinian" is because "Argentina" isn't a country, you speak an Argentinian dialect of the Spanish language.
Well if Argentina didn't have an official language, you know like every other country in the world, then you might have been on to something. People don't say "I speak Asian", because Aisa is not a country, it's a continent made up of various countries that speak different languages.
The same applies to the term "American". The Americas are two continents composed of various countries that speak various languages.
I'm sorry if you fail to understand that concept.
Edited, Mar 29th 2011 10:42am by Almalieque