Do You Concider American to be a Sub-Language of English?

saying that american is a sub language is also saying that Australian and Nz are sublanguages too

even britian has there own words that americans dont use i would say one but its rude and mean XDD

 

All you really have to do is look at the ways we spell certain words. And well even some southern dialects could almost be considered another sub-language. Cuz I mean dem pepuls is speakin sum darn diffn langage. See what I mean? What is your favorite color of armor? Now how would a British person spell certain words in that sentence?

 

I believe it is just different variations of the same language.
Although I am guilty of calling it "American", but only to differentiate it from "British" or "Austrailian".​

 

It's still English. Just very poor, crappy English. Of course, if we went by this, half of the Americans wouldn't understand the ones speaking with that awful southern accent either. Most Americans don't have much of an accent and can speak with a British person just fine and the same applies vice-versa. There are worse accents like cockney too in British accents so I am not sure why people are just picking on Americans here. Everywhere has their group of people that take the language in directions they want it to go so that it can be difficult for others to comprehend it.

Also, we all have terms for things and around the internet really, many local words are now becoming more familiar to others in other countries. If anything, the language will be stronger and more diverse for all of us who speak it. ...Except those southern people that won't graduate from school and can't use a computer. Fortunately, not all people in the south talk like that. I can say I have heard it though from some.

 

Different dialects, really. Not a different language.
I feel I speak a proper form of American English, though (not a different language).

 

no, I do not. "American" is, in fact different than "British" but not that different. We still use the same characters and sounds for each word...

of course, these factors dont determine a language is different from one another completely, but it has a pretty big influence. The only major differences in "American" and "British" are spelling of words...but even then its for a small amount of words. Not every word has a different spelling. Also, slang is created generally by environment and other smaller factors, so its a given that America will have a few different slang words than Britain. Its not enough to have a completely different langauge though.

 

I'd say yes because they came up with that language before this country was named.So technically it should be sub-language of english.

 

I say no, because both are still completely intelligible between each other. In linguistics, the distinction between American English, British English, Australian English, etc. is what's a dialect. A dialect is a form of a language that is still completely understandable to speakers of another dialect, yet different to other dialects. These differences can range from phonological to grammatical and even semantic.

It's not a sub-language, but a dialect to English.

... Linguistics is my cup of tea, if you haven't noticed. ^^