do you learn US english or UK english in school

shenjingbing SG

we learn UK english in school .you na ?

SilverRevo SG

.... spelling differs …. centre and center … color and colour

TehJarVu SG

UK.

shenjingbing SG

yeah ,what we learn is centre ,

newmanmback SG

i wrote US english in my GCE o level Cambridge paper...so i was trying to sell UK a US product and i go a C6 in English Mr. Green

so ppl at work interview look at me cert say my Englisch fuck up...so i picked up a little Jewman and that's enough to spite them all hahaha

idwar SG

US English is low class, spoken by immigrants, mexicans, blacks, rap singers.....

UK English more high class-shows speaker got culture and breeding, provided don't speak with Cockney accent.........

But most interesting form of english is Singapore/Malaysian English - truely a class of its own.........................

shenjingbing SG

yeah .US english sounds rude

newmanmback SG

err...part of the Americano's ancestors from ENgland....so basically the englsih elements are there...immigrants and ppl from europe and all over latin america somehow found there way there and settled down...so there;s a mix of culttures and so Americam English...something like singlish although i would not compare the 2.

those..."man, yo man homeboy" are the extremes common among the blacks and ppl of the lower class but somehow is widely accepted in the music industry since a substantial part of the selling music are from black American artistes. i mean "a ss" is still taboo in the American English dictionary and "a rse" is taboo in the English Dictionary and generally it considered rude in a former conversation.

but in the entertainment scene, it how u look at it ......... taboo brings out the humor within Mr. Green

kendoboi SG

Most English we learn is school is UK English..actually, there’s just minor differences between the two..i suppose not much a problem in Singapore. Except when it comes to HTML coding, it’s irritating cos we are using US english in html coding whereas here we are, learning UK english.

dragg SG

we learn british english at school but most, if not all tv programs are american.

Eclipzer SG

i have no idea.
not too sure which words is us english or uk english. Rolling Eyes

RaTtY81 SG

my teacher did not say Embarassed

stellazio SG

i was thought the british english...
but i learned singlish...

vito_corleone SG

i don't see your standard of english being more classy than those spoken by the mexicans and other immigrants, in fact, aren't you yourself descended from immigrants? there are thousands of latinos and blacks who beat you flat when it comes to the english language so before you blurt out any more BS use that possibly non-existent mutation in your cavernous skull that you may wish to label a brain. Laughing

newmanmback SG

okay okay one...look in dictionary and the will be things like br for british english and so on.

you cannot learn them all so i guess along the way you can learn it yourself or from ppl around u or u work wif. happen to chance upon an angmoh fren can check wif them.

flick knife is british for switchblade and common american way of saying "that guy u just wasted out there was johnny's frend" simply means "that man u just killed out there was johnny's frend".

Mr. Green

ndmmxiaomayi SG

My teacher says it’s British English. So it is UK English lor.

shenjingbing SG

yeah .british english .that is BE ,us english .that is AE.we often say like this

ndmmxiaomayi SG

You really shen jing bing. British English is Br. American English is US.

Ito_^ SG

UK, its official but we often pick up some terms and crap from US influence. i know some people whom refuse to acknowledge dat colour is spelled colour, always insists on color. i think i got impression of someone telling me that we must follow us style some years ago. even english teachers sometimes make these sort of mistakes..

newmanmback SG

then there is this pronunciation thing...like

"anti"...we usually pronounce as "ant-tee"
but seems like us pronounce "ant-tie"

i dun know lar sometimes so messy...but for me i accept both lar....cannot be choosy not our mother tongue ma Mr. Green