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Good to know that a British news publication determines the vernacular for everyone around the world. I’ll be sure to refer to bbc.com’s regional delineations before insensitively referring to any part of the world in a manner that may hurt your feelings. Thanks for the tip!

Or maybe I won’t. Maybe I’ll just speak freely with reasonable, organic language that isn’t dictated by cry bullies and false authorities.

You don’t get to tell me how to speak. Sorry if that pains you.




I'm not in or from the UK, I have travelled in three quarters of the 190+ countries about the world.

> You don’t get to tell me how to speak. Sorry if that pains you.

Speak as you wish, it pains me not.

However, when you say 1+1=5 or that the rest of the world uses the same seppoisms that you do then I quite rightly regard you as more than a little ignorant.


- Maybe the ignorant thing is insisting that language has to adhere to One Universal Truth?

- Americans are the largest group of native English speakers. When they say things a certain way, it becomes part of the definition of the language.

- Your use of the word "seppo" is telling - if you have an anti-American axe to grind, why come to a site mostly populated by Americans?


I didn’t even catch that use of “seppo”. What a hilariously hypocritical use of language.

>demands others not use “America” when referring to the US due to insensitivity or whatever

>calls Americans “seppos”, which is a derogatory term derived from “septic tank”

You can’t make this stuff up.


It has nothing to do with ignorance. It’s a perfectly reasonable shortening of USA, which is why everyone, from everywhere, uses it.

People against its use are invariably anti-US, or massively insecure about their less-influential country in the Americas, or are just jerks looking to exert power over others via compelled speech. You seem like you’re all three. We’re gonna keep saying “America”, dweeb.




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