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If you live in the US, I agree that you must use American English. But even us people that live outside of the US/UK/related countries often got errors marked,
by carstenhag 2y ago
If you live in the US, I agree that you must use American English.
But even us people that live outside of the US/UK/related countries often got errors marked, because we used the wrong regional variant... In Europe, British English is used as a reference point, but I had a similar problem as GP.
- rjsw 2y ago> If you live in the US, I agree that you must use American English. Unless you are writing International Standards. ISO requires British English spellings in documents.
- dullcrisp 2y agoAlso if you’re invited to tea with the Queen
- cherryteastain 2y agoI hear conversations with her are not as lively anymore
- mpclark 2y agoThey absolutely are! She just looks a little different.
- donohoe 2y agoUnlikely, but not impossible.
- gomerspiles 2y agoMy teachers only commented/deducted if I mixed spellings in a single essay. If a teacher can't teach someone who uses either variant they probably have a stark educational deficit themselves.
- em-bee 2y agowhen i was an exchange student i was told that some students would have problems coming back because their english teachers would not accept the american english they would learn during the exchange year and that might reflect on their grades. fortunately i had an understanding teacher who didn't do that, but who was happy to see my english dramatically improved.
- pjmlp 2y agoWhich is why as European, I have my English dictionary set to UK English.
- Xophmeister 2y ago> In Europe, British English is used as a reference point Anecdotal counterpoint, but… I’m a British English speaker, but many of my colleagues are Continental Europeans, for whom English is their second language. Part of my job involves copy editing and, almost without exception, their output is written in American English.
- dataflow 2y ago> If you live in the US, I agree that you must use American English. Why though? I think you missed my point with the rationale for this. See below. > But even us people that live outside of the US/UK/related countries often got errors marked, because we used the wrong regional variant... In Europe, British English is used as a reference point, but I had a similar problem as GP. That makes perfect sense though? The point wasn't "act American because you're in America", the point was "they're trying to teach you to communicate with {whatever audience they believe you will most often find yourself needing to cater to in the future}". Obviously in Europe they deem that to be British-English speakers. In America it'd obviously be American-English. etc.
- laurencerowe 2y agoAs a computer science student in England we were told we should use ‘program’ rather than ‘programme’ since that was the convention in our subject. If I remember correctly BBC Basic accepted COLOUR as well as COLOR keywords to be more approachable to primary school children who were native English speakers.
- Kwpolska 2y agoDictionaries have also accepted the shorter spelling when talking about computer programs: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/program https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/program && https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/program_1 https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...
- pasc1878 2y agoSurely for the BBC Minor COLOUR was always the correct way. It was a bad show that they allowed COLOR as well. As each keyword was saved as a code - did COLOR and COLOUR really map to two different codes?
- zimpenfish 2y agoAccording to https://www.ncus.org.uk/dsbbcoms.htm https://www.ncus.org.uk/dsbbcoms.htm, they both map to &FB