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Portuguese people clicking on the Brazilian flag to see something in Portuguese 💀

A tourist wanted some directions so he asked: "Sorry, do you speak American.'

My buddy who can be a purist: "I understand American but I speak English."

As opposed to everyone else when they have to click the US flag to get English language options

Traditional English vs Simplified English. I won't tell you which is which.

One of these days Trump is gonna sue the UK for speaking the American language

Scottish people having to click on a British flag knowing it will display English (there is a perfectly good flag for England that people refuse to use 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

When I was visiting Paris, a tour bus we got on had a audio guide, the languages were all labeled with national flags.

English -> UK flag French -> flag of France Spanish -> Flag of Spain Portuguese -> Flag of Brazil

Even in Europe Portugal plays second fiddle for it's own language

As an Aussie it really grinds my gears that office defaults to American spelling. And even after I change the dictionary to Australian or UK english it still continues to insert 'z' into words. It's colonise, not colonize!

Brit here it's our laugauge don't like it? Get your own instead of spelling ours wrong

it's worse when it's an American flag because I'm always looking for the British one

We alsou have to start adding U's in places that nourmally only have O's.

I replaced the US flag with a UK one on my website for this reason x)

The way 'herbs' or 'erbs' (as some pronounce it) drives me absolutely nuts.

Also, 'mirror' where it sounds like 'meer' drives me nuts.

I definitely prefer British English. Love reading the old Agatha Christie books. E.g. "My word!" The colonel ejaculated, "I do believe that she's dead!"

The whole concept of multilingual websites is foreign to Americans. There is only one language in their mind.

Why use many word when few word do.

I wish there were some internationally recognized symbols to represent languages as distinct entities from their countries of origin, but the idea of trying to make some seems really unpopular for some reason.

There's other languages that have far more politically contentious flags representing them - at least all the English-speaking countries are broadly allies. Spare a thought for the Taiwanese who have to select a People's Republic of China flag, even though the language is as much theirs as it is the PRC's, or the large number of Russian-speaking native Ukrainians who have to select the flag of the country who's bombing them and their families.

The notion of a country owning a language is fraught with toxicity (indeed, Russia's claim to vast swathes of Ukraine leans heavily on it), and if languages had their own flags we could sidestep the whole issue.

https://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/why-flags-do-not-represent-language/

Ok, it’s driving me crazy.

Who is that? The actor, not the character they’re playing.