+188 Non-Americans: Sometimes you Americanise things you post on the internet (such as brand names, slang words, etc.) because otherwise no one would know what you're talking about, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

ALL THE TIME!!!!!!!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yep. I like how you say Americanise whereas an American would spell it Americanize.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes, I agree. As an American, I do not understand what you are talking about if you use an s in place of a z. WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST "Z"s, EUROPE????

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It looks silly, like a tween typing like thiz. And it's not just Europe, more places use s than z. You lose.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hey, no reason to be rude. Us Americans could say that it's stupid to add a "u" to the word "color," but most of us realize that different places spell things different ways.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not being rude. I know different places spell things differently, I don't have a problem with it. I'm just saying it looks better, to me at least, to spell things like realise with an s. Since the majority of the world uses that spelling and the d/m/y date system & metric system, etc., it just makes sense that America should too. And I way be wrong, but wasn't it originally spelt "colour", then you guys changed it?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I know; I was joking. Also, no one uses our system of measurement, or our MM/DD/YYYY system of dating, or half our holidays, or any of our other spellings like "favorite". But I like analyZing and criticiZing and memoriZing and generally AmericaniZing things.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Actually, I'm Canadian and I use the MM/DD/YYYY system of dating, and Canadian building codes still use inches.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Bitch, please! Americans invented the internet, you spell however the hell we want you to spell. Jk btw

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In Europe the say Z (zee) as zed. At least I think so, correct me if I'm wrong.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You're wrong. If they pronounce it 'zed', it won't fit in the song at all! And that would just be a disgrace.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not sure about Europe, but it's pronounced "zed" in South Africa.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And Australia.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Also we pronounce it "aboot", not "about" :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And "been", not "been". ...That distinction did not come across as well as I'd planned.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I love it when Canadians say "about"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

At first I thought you meant minorities when you said non-Americans. I wonder what nationality is the majority on this site, considering it was made by someone from the UK...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

(Chauncy Pickles): From what I've seen I'm pretty sure it's Americans

by Anonymous 12 years ago

(Chauncy Pickles): Last statistics I saw around 70% of the site was from the US.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Like writing 'pants' instead of 'trousers'.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Also, I want to point out, sometimes it isn't intentional - sometimes we don't write American brand names or slang just to let the American users understand us, sometimes we do it because the majority of television, movies, music, etc., comes from the US, so we pick up the language from there.

by Anonymous 12 years ago