Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by theandrewbailey on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:24AM (#43278888)

Since US English retains more historical features of English and has fewer of the newer ones (especially in light of Received Pronunciation, rhoticity, and random u insertion), one could argue that US English is the more traditional one.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-p...

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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by HeckFeck on Thursday March 06, 2025 @07:34AM (#43279503)

I live in a region of the UK where rhoticity is alive and well. It actually means I've an easier time understanding some words when Americans speak them, compared to the English.

On the broader point I'd agree up until I notice that you'd write 'defense' yet also 'fence', and ponder why the verb 'got' is so overused.

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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by t-3 on Thursday March 06, 2025 @11:46AM (#43282255)

I'll just say that I sometimes use defense because the Firefox spellchecker seems to prefer UK spellings even when US English is set in the language settings and the red squiggly lines bother me.

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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by HeckFeck on Friday March 07, 2025 @05:58AM (#43289148)

Sssh, you weren’t meant to notice! We have a man on the inside.

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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by dijit on Thursday March 06, 2025 @07:35AM (#43279514)

Isn't that a myth?

Wonder where that idea even came from, the BBC article even says as such "“It is a delightful and attractive myth that Shakespeare’s language got fossilised” in parts of the US, [the dialect anthropologist] says."

I mean; we have old runic languages that match northern English pronunciation really well- along with "olde english" spelling which is clearly a rote writing of a southern English accent (likely from somewhere like Gloucestershire).

An attractive myth, perhaps, but I'm not sure how much truth there really is.

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/bofu3g/how_did_ame...

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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by toolz on Thursday March 06, 2025 @10:06AM (#43281061)

> even if Americans do speak more like the Elizabethan English than today’s Brits themselves

I get the sense that the article very much believes Americans speak more traditional English.

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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by dietr1ch on Thursday March 06, 2025 @07:02AM (#43279233)

You know it's way more traditional because they democratically pushed themselves into an oligarchy ;)

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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by lenerdenator on Thursday March 06, 2025 @09:35AM (#43280685)

Sounds pretty European to me, honestly.

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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by bbno4 on Thursday March 06, 2025 @09:58AM (#43280955)

The article you linked says it's a myth.

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