Language: You are undoubtedly the greatest nation on earth.Ever wonder why you use someone else's language? Mind you I am not complaining,because of your influence English signs are in...

viscountdriver Loc: East Kent UK

You are undoubtedly the greatest nation on earth.Ever wonder why you use someone else's language? Mind you I am not complaining,because of your influence English signs are in most places in the world.
I wondered what your language would be called if you had your own? I came up with Yanklip.Any better ideas?

BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

Ojibway or Huron where I live.

jonjacobik Loc: Quincy, MA

Murikan or Murikin

orrie smith Loc: Kansas

viscountdriver wrote:

You are undoubtedly the greatest nation on earth.Ever wonder why you use someone else's language? Mind you I am not complaining,because of your influence English signs are in most places in the world.
I wondered what your language would be called if you had your own? I came up with Yanklip.Any better ideas?

BS if you want to politically correct according to our present national news coverage.

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

Apache, Cherokee, Irquios, Comanche, Souix Black Foot are a few that come to mind.

Sendai5355 Loc: On the banks of the Pedernales River, Texas

At one time in Texas there was concern that German would be the dominant language. I think up til WWII German and Czech were common in many locales. Guten Tag y'all.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

viscountdriver wrote:

You are undoubtedly the greatest nation on earth.Ever wonder why you use someone else's language? Mind you I am not complaining,because of your influence English signs are in most places in the world.
I wondered what your language would be called if you had your own? I came up with Yanklip.Any better ideas?

I think it's The Empire that spread English throughout the world. You know, when the sun never set on it.

English is definitely the dominant language on the planet. Anyone who wants to get ahead has to learn English.

On a related topic. I had a summer job a few years ago, and they took in young workers from foreign countries. Sitting around talking one day, one of the young Russians said, "You don't realize how important it is to be born in America."

nospambob Loc: Edmond, Oklahoma

Well, now, y'all, we don' speak English. It's called 'Merican.

Steve_m Loc: Southern California

viscountdriver wrote:

You are undoubtedly the greatest nation on earth.Ever wonder why you use someone else's language? Mind you I am not complaining,because of your influence English signs are in most places in the world.
I wondered what your language would be called if you had your own? I came up with Yanklip.Any better ideas?

Funny. We use a space after each punctuation.

salmander

I think this is a strange question. Our country was founded substantially by English colonists. We started out like the child of the parent who grew into adulthood. Over time we absorbed many other nationalities and became larger and more powerful than our parent, but retained our original method of communicating. We have changed so much that we hardly resemble our parent. Children learn the language of their parents, so this is a no-brainer question. What would be the alternative? Deciding we should change our common language into some other language and go through the very difficult process of learning another one? That would be a stupid idea. Most people would not be able to handle that.

English itself evolved from several other languages, so this question is like asking why doesn't the UK speak one of those languages?

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

Esperanto, maybe.

Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada

Canadian

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

I just say "American". It is one of several English dialects (in fact, there are several just within the "American" category). But at heart, they are all "English".

hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA

American English is different from British English. Just as Mexican Spanish is different from Spanish Spanish.

RobertW Loc: Breezy Point, New York

Being American and having had to learn to read write and speak French, Arabic and Portuguese in order to conduct my Architectural and Engineering pursuits in, e.g. Saudia, Qatar, Brazil, England, Ireland, Wales, I recognized that my early education in LATIN was invaluable in my undertaking to be fluent in other languages. The UK, or the Empire, wasn't the SOURCE------Latin and Greek were the language forebears, Arabic was the Mathematics forebear to the Germanic languages.............In "Americanese"---You didn't originate language in the Empire, you adapted to the original sources!!