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In the window where you select the language you want Steam to display, there's an American flag next to English!! Why isn't there an English flag? There isn't a Brazilian flag next to Portuguese, there isn't a Mexican flag next to Spanish, there isn't a Canadian flag next to French....so why the **** is there an American flag next to English?

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[QUOTE="x-2tha-z"]In the window where you select the language you want Steam to display, there's an American flag next to English!! Why isn't there an English flag? There isn't a Brazilian flag next to Portuguese, there isn't a Mexican flag next to Spanish, there isn't a Canadian flag next to French....so why the **** is there an American flag next to English?

:lol: man im sure it sucks, but not that much.

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Good thing you didn't overreact because of such a trivial problem >_>. Wouldn't it be best if you posted this on the Steampowered forums in the bug/glitch section so that Valve would be able to fix it? post a screenshot too.

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[QUOTE="x-2tha-z"]In the window where you select the language you want Steam to display, there's an American flag next to English!! Why isn't there an English flag? There isn't a Brazilian flag next to Portuguese, there isn't a Mexican flag next to Spanish, there isn't a Canadian flag next to French....so why the **** is there an American flag next to English?

Really?This is somehow thread worthy and something that would be considered a problem? talk about making a fuss over something soo ***ing trivial. :|

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No its indeed a bad thing. but he needs to post this in steam's forums.

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Because Valve is an American company, WOO AMERICA!!! USA! USA! USA! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!111

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It's because America rules!

All your language are belong to us!

MUWHAHAHAHAHA!

sdfg

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#9 Doom_HellKnight

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As the rather patriotic people above stated, Valve is based in the USA and so Steam uses US English, and therefore has the US Flag icon. It would have been nice if they included an English (UK) option for us Brits, but there'd be no real point, in all honesty.

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As the rather patriotic people above stated, Valve is based in the USA and so Steam uses US English, and therefore has the US Flag icon. It would have been nice if they included an English (UK) option for us Brits, but there'd be no real point, in all honesty.
Doom_HellKnight

So, just because a few words are spelled differently in America, all of a sudden it's an American language? Please. If the language was called American, but there was a British flag next to it, I'm sure the aformentioned patriots would have something to say about it.

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Just wait until he sees the spelling of the "My Favorites" section in the My Games tab. Then he will be really pissed at what us crazy yanks have done to HIS language. :P

edit: oops....too late

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Because Valve is an American company and they use American English. They're probably going to use the word "color" before they ever even consider spelling it as "colour".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences#Formal_and_notional_agreement

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[QUOTE="x-2tha-z"] So, just because a few words are spelled differently in America, all of a sudden it's an American language? Please. If the language was called American, but there was a British flag next to it, I'm sure the aformentioned patriots would have something to say about it.

Stop making a fuss out of this. If im not mistaken, Bioware`s social page has the Canadian flag next to the English language option. If you have a problems with the US or whatever thats your thing, its silly to complain about something like this.

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Because Americans pwn all.

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[QUOTE="Dante2710"][QUOTE="x-2tha-z"] So, just because a few words are spelled differently in America, all of a sudden it's an American language? Please. If the language was called American, but there was a British flag next to it, I'm sure the aformentioned patriots would have something to say about it.

Stop making a fuss out of this. If im not mistaken, Bioware`s social page has the Canadian flag next to the English language option. If you have a problems with the US or whatever thats your thing, its silly to complain about something like this.

I'm not making a fuss. I'm asking a valid question. If it isn't important to you, just ignore the topic. No-one's forcing you to participate in this discussion.

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It's because America rules!
All your language are belong to us!
MUWHAHAHAHAHA!
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LOL. That's awesome.

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America! F*** yea!

Coming to save the motherf***** day, yea!

The reason it's not there is because there is a difference between British English and US English. Steam is an American company and I'm pretty sure US English is used as the universal language over Oxford English (not really sure about that one, so correct me if I'm wrong).

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[QUOTE="x-2tha-z"] I'm not making a fuss. I'm asking a valid question. If it isn't important to you, just ignore the topic. No-one's forcing you to participate in this discussion.

What valid question? You some how find it problematic that the American flag is next to the English option. The fact that Valve is an American should give it away and somehow you are offended by it.

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[QUOTE="Doom_HellKnight"]
As the rather patriotic people above stated, Valve is based in the USA and so Steam uses US English, and therefore has the US Flag icon. It would have been nice if they included an English (UK) option for us Brits, but there'd be no real point, in all honesty.
x-2tha-z

So, just because a few words are spelled differently in America, all of a sudden it's an American language? Please. If the language was called American, but there was a British flag next to it, I'm sure the aformentioned patriots would have something to say about it.

Yes it is now an American language.

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Because Valve is an American company, WOO AMERICA!!! USA! USA! USA! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!111General_X

I LOLED at this post.

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Because americans think they invented everything.

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Because americans think they invented everything.RichardStallman

And non-Americans never generalize :roll:

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#23 deactivated-57e5de5e137a4

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Maybe because the developers speak and wrote the program for American English? Of course, that's just the answer I came up with after thinking about it for two seconds.

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#24 morrowindnic

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In the window where you select the language you want Steam to display, there's an American flag next to English!! Why isn't there an English flag? There isn't a Brazilian flag next to Portuguese, there isn't a Mexican flag next to Spanish, there isn't a Canadian flag next to French....so why the **** is there an American flag next to English?x-2tha-z

American English =/= British English

Steam is in American English, not British English.

It would be rather stupid to put an English flag next to it.

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Because Valve is an American company, WOO AMERICA!!! USA! USA! USA! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!111General_X

AHAHAHHAHA omg i lol'd hard

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#26 gamerguy845

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This is important.... why?

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#27 the_mitch28

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Yeah that's silly, everyone knows Americans don't speak proper English.

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The solution is to forget about calling it English and start calling it American. Problem solved.

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#31 RichardStallman

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[QUOTE="x-2tha-z"]In the window where you select the language you want Steam to display, there's an American flag next to English!! Why isn't there an English flag? There isn't a Brazilian flag next to Portuguese, there isn't a Mexican flag next to Spanish, there isn't a Canadian flag next to French....so why the **** is there an American flag next to English?devious742

I actually posted a thread about this in the steam forums.. Valve responded....

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=60dc0c9e58b5bdeba2f0a748c0c7f654&f=14

Trying too hard.

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#32 the_mitch28

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[QUOTE="devious742"]
[QUOTE="x-2tha-z"]In the window where you select the language you want Steam to display, there's an American flag next to English!! Why isn't there an English flag? There isn't a Brazilian flag next to Portuguese, there isn't a Mexican flag next to Spanish, there isn't a Canadian flag next to French....so why the **** is there an American flag next to English?RichardStallman

I actually posted a thread about this in the steam forums.. Valve responded....

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=60dc0c9e58b5bdeba2f0a748c0c7f654&f=14

Trying too hard.

Plus kinda interesting choice of song.... one that is making fun of the USA. Fission mailed.

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[QUOTE="RichardStallman"][QUOTE="devious742"]
I actually posted a thread about this in the steam forums.. Valve responded....
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=60dc0c9e58b5bdeba2f0a748c0c7f654&f=14
the_mitch28

Trying too hard.

Plus kinda interesting choice of song.... one that is making fun of the USA. Fission mailed.

lol of course it makes fun of itself..that's why its funny...is everyone so uptight in here:oops:

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Plus kinda interesting choice of song.... one that is making fun of the USA. Fission mailed.the_mitch28

I think most people know the song is a satire.

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English belongs to american now. my family speak more caribbean english, though.

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Because it's American-English not British-English, minor differentials

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It's because Steam uses American English. Would be weird for an American company to use British English, wouldn't it? If you check Firefox's or Windows' language settings, you'll see that there as well is a difference between US and UK English.

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Uh..I would guess that there's an American flag because they're using American English, and not UK English? What's so strange?

No, the two aren't quite the same..there are a number of small differences. One that sticks out in my mind is that the phrase "my co-worker is in hospital" is considered proper in UK English, but improper in American English.

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#40 deactivated-64ba3ebd35404

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[QUOTE="x-2tha-z"]In the window where you select the language you want Steam to display, there's an American flag next to English!! Why isn't there an English flag? There isn't a Brazilian flag next to Portuguese, there isn't a Mexican flag next to Spanish, there isn't a Canadian flag next to French....so why the **** is there an American flag next to English?

Because it uses American English, Ie: They took the letter "u" out of most words and call Football "Soccer" :P

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Because it uses American English, Ie: They took the letter "u" out of most words and call Football "Soccer" :Pkieranb2000

Aren't we also pretty much the only country that pronounces "Z" as "zee?"

Oh, we also pronounce "herb" as "erb" for some reason...

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