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does it not seem the UK has a vibrant history of using colorful language, being more experimental with words (the english language specifically) - while the US seems way less into this? like if you were try and use a bunch of colorful sing-songy language and manner of speaking, folks would just be all lyk, "wut r u sum kinda feggot?"

to me this signals a kind of cultural fscism that is making american dicks limp all acrost this fair nation

>> No.11904303

:(

>> No.11904307

is it just me or is american english perhaps the blandest language of them all

>> No.11905115

fuck you all

>> No.11905132

>>11902979
Colony woes. US still a flegdeling nation yet to grow into its body properly. It’s still retarded and juvenile and thirdwordly in many places and ways. Great prospects but still a silly child nation. Culture will take a few millennia to form. That’s normal.

>> No.11905205

>>11902979
>>11904307
burgercuck here. can confirm. we don't take much pride in our linguistic roots even though we have some of the strongest universities on Earth. It's probably some combination of being a relatively young country and one that is defined as a nation of rebels against the European identity.

It's strange. But there's an enduring skepticism towards education and literacy. I'm honestly not sure if it's the marketing/media that feeds into it and informs it or if their bastardizations of language and logic are reflections of the broader cultural attitude.

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>>11902979
Oh so I guess the concept of “the great American novel” is just a blank statement to you assholes. Cormac McCarthy’s use of language to create a vivid world through the use of language must no exist exist in the rest of the world. Moby dick doesn’t exist either then.

>> No.11905239

>>11905220
This dude is right. There's a tradition of maximalism and rich language in the USA. Faulkner is high-tier in modernism, the most experimental movement. Colourful language is a big feature of popular and hyper-American authors like Toni Morisson, Kerouac, Pynchon.

There's also other traditions - Jamesian controlled shit and Hemingway style pointed minimalism, but the OP claim is flat out wrong. You can find those minimalist styles in England too.

>> No.11905247

>>11902979
Murican English is niggerized