Americans rewriting history

[eroticartist]

To sum up this thread I noticed no hardly anyone agreed that the distortion of history was very important although it was obvious that the same audince watching Th Patriot and Schindlers List would accept both as true.

This being the case it is obvious that the British Army and the Nation is maliciously and deliberately accused of atrocities that it did not commit and furthermore that these slanderous images could be used by the enemies of Britain for propaganda purposes.

I therefore suggest again that a law should be passed and where such lies are depicted as historical fact there should be a statement admitting that they bear no relation to history or the truth, on the front credits
Mike Freeman.

[jj]

The simple answer is to read as much as you can from original sources,
and/or accounts based on the original history- and then make up your
own mind.

[Dizzy]

I have a couple if 'US' peeves but not around rewriting film history but rather related to IT matters.

I feel my blood pressure rise every time I install an application that provides tons of foreign languages but only offers English US as the form of English.

I know 99.9% of it reads the same but at the end of the day English is English unless you use a lot of lazy arse spelling in which case you end of with English US.

While I'm on the subject how about setting your units of measurements in programs and operating systems like Windows. The options are Metric or US...

...US? Uh, Hello? It's known as Imperial as in British Imperial Measurements as defined earlier than 1770 (specific records are sketchy but indicate they could have been defined much earlier)!

The US didn't exist officially until the declaration of independence came to pass on July 4, 1776.

Dizzy !nuts!

[jj]

'Programs' ??

[Pervert]

Making the most of your monthly visit??

[jj]

Yes, indeed.
Just got up for a piss [wait till you're old and have bladder-probs].......

[Sam Slater]

I 'kinda' agree (note the Americanism !happy!), although the guy has a point. Not that American English is wrong, but the point that nearly every other language is listed as an option in most software apart from English English.

If I'm French, Spanish or German, I can choose my language, but if I'm English, or Australian, I am forced to use American English.

Language, like genetics, is always in a state of flux, with new words being introduced all the time, but with the rise of the internet, and everything that goes with that, American English is being forced upon us at a faster rate.

With movies and books, we can pick and choose the timing of Americanisms, or new spellings we want to adopt, but with essential software for business, or socialising, English English is being phased out.

P.s. Having spoken to lots of Japanese Exchange students, some actually learned English English. I think it depends on their teacher.