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Have you switched to British English?
- Thread starter melduk
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Can i moan?
Why ohhh why is it called "British English"?
Its just plain and simple........ "English" - its origins are from England for crying out load.
The options should be:
English
Scottish English
Irish English
Welsh English
Cornish English
American English
Any other English
Ps who speaks American Scottish, American Irish or American Welsh anyone?
Dictionary "English":
adjective
1. relating to England or its people or language.
noun
1.1 the language of England, widely used in many varieties throughout the world.
1.2 the people of England.
Why ohhh why is it called "British English"?
Its just plain and simple........ "English" - its origins are from England for crying out load.
The options should be:
English
Scottish English
Irish English
Welsh English
Cornish English
American English
Any other English
Ps who speaks American Scottish, American Irish or American Welsh anyone?
Dictionary "English":
adjective
1. relating to England or its people or language.
noun
1.1 the language of England, widely used in many varieties throughout the world.
1.2 the people of England.
There shouldn't be an 'American English'. the proper term should be 'Simplified English'
Pagemakers
Active Member
Think all it does is change trunk to boot and frunk to bonnet.
It doesn’t affect any voice controls. That’s still as lousy as it alway was.
It doesn’t affect any voice controls. That’s still as lousy as it alway was.
ACarneiro
Active Member
Can you add the option "Yes, but I don't really care that much about it anyway"...
Louder for people in the back please.
My American relatives get a lot of stick from me regarding exactly this.
Recently they changed their tune and told me they speak 'American'.
Now they're making up languages that doesn't exist lol
Does Kate Beckinsale talk to you? I would make the switch.
Pagemakers
Active Member
All it really needed was British English voice control.
Its current understanding of the English language is practically non-existent.
Its current understanding of the English language is practically non-existent.
pdk42
Active Member
It’s nice to see “bonnet” and “boot” instead of the American terms, but it’s hardly a big deal. Fixing voice controls to let me say “call” without having to sound like an extra in Brooklyn 99 would be much more useful!
Worth the price of the car on its own.
all I want is to replace ft with yards. oh and please read out road numbers as digits and don't try and be clever about it
Sparkeur
Member
Well, I decided to try new 'British' English on Voice to see what would happen:
'OK me ol' china, giv' us the dog an' bone so I can call the trouble and set up a nice ruby fer ally-gate-ah.'
Silence...and then the glove box opened.
'OK me ol' china, giv' us the dog an' bone so I can call the trouble and set up a nice ruby fer ally-gate-ah.'
Silence...and then the glove box opened.
MrBadger
Badger out
Pagemakers
Active Member
12Pack
Member
As a Yank living in England - I'm not sure the superiority exhibited here is so appropriate. I've never had to live with as many "should of" instead of "should have", "their" vs "there" and other similar grammatical issues as I have had to here...
Also, keep in mind iOS' Siri works better with a US English set-up as there is a much larger user base that is used to tweak it.
Also, keep in mind iOS' Siri works better with a US English set-up as there is a much larger user base that is used to tweak it.
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