h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Please post english below.

Notice the word "English". No American allowed - ie, "Doughnut" must NOT be spelt "Donut".

Um, as the Plaza is meant to provide a refuge for all languages, including pig latin or what have you....I would think that making American English the only unwelcome language is a bit unfair. Motion denied. Sorry

All I'm saying is that you wouldn't expect people to write in French in the Chinese conversation, so why not do the logical thing and have an American forum for people who speak American to enter, so that they don't fowl up the English one with their inability to spell "colour" etc.

Alright, if it will make you feel better.
However this is supposed be about languages *other* than English...

Yes, and American is a very good example of a language other than English.

hehehe......In that case, maybe we should be banning British English rather than the other way around?

Maybe - although English is English - what they speak in America is some language other than English.

Being an American that has lived overseas for almost eight years now, I would tend to agree that they are very different...In all my travels I have only found one person that speaks/understands the slang that was spoken in my hometown.
But to keep anyone from being scared off,
For the record:
Each forum shall be open to all speakers of the language in question, in the broadest sense of the word. In other words, for the pupose of the Plaza, even Japan English, and Midwestern Spanish can be used in their respective forums. If anyone would like to make a forum for a more specific definition, they are welcome to. For the sake of clarity, please, again put the name of the language in English as the subject, with the specific dialect/accent/whatever specified in parenthesis, as in English (Central London).

Fowl? You mean "Foul", right?

Shh, Spartus. He said NO AMERICAN. You'll give yourself away.

Everybody knows that in "fowl" is English for "foul," in much the same way that "tyre" is English for "tire" and "pinochle" is English for "straw hat."

*loves the English for various reasons, recognizing and including their characteristic practice of non-favor for American English*

Ah, right.

*sshes*

Hey KM, didn't you mean non-favour?

- X

Hees rite, yoo no.

I'm sorry - I refuse to believe that "pinochle" is English.

Yeah but wat I wanna no is, wat aboot the people who cant speel in the first place, like for example me

So what bit of English is English then, Queens english? Yorkshire English? Cornish English? Dorset English? Birmingham English?

It's a grand language and it matters not how we speak of write it, hooray for the differences that's what I say.

How about Isle of Wight English?:
"Bangbourne wagon overthrowd - Plaish ciarter's fout. I'm off for me nammit, nipper, look out for the grockles in the grocklecan"

Translates as:

"There's been a road accident at Bangbourne junction again, some fool from Plaish caused it again. Well, I'm off for lunch, kid, try and avoid the old women in the bus."

Heheheeeeheheheeheeeheheeheheehe--GROCKLES!

That's my new word for the day.

"Grocklecan" is a close second.

Exactly