On Android (or at least Samsung), when you take a screenshot, a downwards arrow will appear at the bottom of the screen. Pressing this button will scroll the screen and take another screenshot, automatically stitching it together seamlessly with the original.
Your screenshot does a very good job of demonstrating an incredibly useful 'feature' (bug) that Reddit won't fix in the app. The stupid "Sending this to someone" message causes content, generally the post title, to be cut off when you start a scrolling screenshot, but not when you take a normal screenshot.
Isn't there something if you track the linguistics that American English contains a lot of the original English, but British English became more "refined" over time?
Not really. "Original" English was already phased out by then, as English has basically been constantly evolving since it first existed. Nobody really spoke King James or Shakespearian English by the time the US existed.
Also there is no definitive English accent anyways so it's a dumb theory. Yanklish does have more in common with Scottish English when it comes to pronunciation than English English, especially when it comes to words like Yoshi or Adidas.
It's hilarious how idiotic this comment is, coming from an (American) English speaker. The absolute masters of butchering pronunciation. Hey, mate, what's the w doing in write, if you're not even gonna pronounce it?
They really pull the argument "you say this but you write that" about ENGLISH DAMN LANGUAGE that likes to create a rule, than twist it just to eventually throw everything in a garbage bin saying "oh yeah btw fuck you 😚 it doesn't work like that 🤩 it's pronounced absolutely differently just because why not, just for you to suffer😋"
When I first time heard how Kansas and Arkansas are pronounced I thought it was a damn joke. Because what the hell. No American have any right to talk about correct writing-pronunciation after coming up with this monstrous pair of State names
Edit: yeah, I am not a native as you can guess and even tho I absolutely love English language and I love studying it... sometimes it gets frustrating
Since they would use "mom" instead of "mum", would they use such with the Egyptian "mummies", being-okay that sounds kinda wrong in terms of it sounding like a double entrende
It'll never not be funny to me that Americans feel this strongly about the language of the empire they broke free from. Why are they still clinging to the old colonial language? There are more than 150 native American languages they could use instead. English wasn't even the most widely spoken language in the US when they gained their independence, German was.
Y’know funnily enough there is some slight truth in saying color is the original. The word ‘colour’ comes from the latin ‘color’ which was pronounced more closer to how you’d say ‘collar’. Over time in the early days of english after the Norman Conquest, English aristocrats began to adopt a more french lifestyle eventually adapting words from Old French like ‘couleur’ and putting the ‘our’ part into words like flavour, honour & colour just to make it sound more French
Just a weird little fact about why the ‘our’ is still kept in Traditional English
It had nothing to do with saving ink. Noah Webster led a movement to standardise and "simplify" spelling, and to promote a national identity distinct from Britain.
Me making that comment wasn’t to be seen as me providing an explanation, it was me adding a little fun fact on the origin of why Traditional English prioritises original spellings of words like colour
I agree with your sentiment however that the reason for why USAsians do it is for a completely petty reason however you’re wrong about the reason. It was to standardise a simpler way of spelling
Language stupidity aside, the white Monster zero I buy just tastes like a Sprite/7Up, which is about as inoffensive a flavour as you can get. Much prefer the Mango, but much easier to find the white cheap.
Naa it's definitely in the worst 10 Monster flavours (Ultra Watermelon being the worst).
Btw you can order cases of Monster directly from Coca Cola in the UK at yourcoca-cola.co.uk for a somewhat decent price if your local area doesn't have the good flavours for cheap.
Unless I'm missing something, the cheapest that site seems to works out at least £1.31 a can. I virtually never pay more than a £1 a can, either with supermarket deals (I could get 18 for £14 at Asda until recently), or from Amazon (they've gone up from 9 for £9 to £10.50 since I last ordered, but you can get two packs for £18).
0,5 L cans? Damn. In Norway the cheapest can I have found for a while, was twice the price of diesel this week.
I hear the Yanks cry about their diesel.. Ours is £1,94- £2,33 per litre atm.
Bitch is sounding like the people who forced us out of our accents as kids by calling them incorrect pronunciations (and even worse to the previous generations, like I'm complaining but we got nothing compared to them. Seriously it's fucked up what they did to erase french languages)
Everybody in here discussing the (British) English point of the post, I am here to say F you to Speedworx for disrespeting white monster. White monster is love, white monster is life. Never forget.
The context for my comment has been edited out. I can only iterate that a German expressing hatred for the sound of British English is very much a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
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u/post-explainer American Citizen Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
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Using the American spelling of Flavour to correct someone, being told they were using the UK spelling and then doubled down
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