<p>OMG she was joking</p>
<p>Well, flash, you can have your stupid language back! </p>
<p>Let's start our own language,</p>
<p>first word:</p>
<p>nucular</p>
<p>haha :-) yeah, and aloominum.</p>
<p>it's funny, because at least in our <em>proper</em> UK English, I would refer to (for example) the England football team as "we beat Germany 5-1", despite the fact I'm not in the team. The use of the word "we" to point to a country of which you are part has never implied that it was you specifically involved in the act about which you speak :-)
Clearly in whatever variant of English you speak ucbenz this wouldn't be a valid thing to say!!!</p>
<p>Anyways, the important thing is that just as with French which is spoken in many countries around the world and yet is a distinctly French thing, English is a distinctly English thing. And as with french, many of our former colonies still speak it and have spread it further!!! :-P</p>
<p>And we never wanted america anyway :-P weather is too interesting we'd have never stopped talking about it :-)</p>
<p>The "we" thing applies to all sports teams though. When the Yankees win I'm like "YEAH! WE WON! WHOO!". Even when Chelsea wins, as has happened often recently, I celebrate "WE DID IT!" (and of course rub in the face of Man U fans) and the ONLY relation I have with that team is that I am the same nationality as the owner (Roman Abramovich).</p>
<p>exactly.
'we' simply relates you to a group of people (country, sports team, university, etc) - doesn't mean you're involved with the sport or creation of a language or whatever.</p>
<p>Also the "and yes we're honoUred that you all want to speak it and spread it further."
...was a bit tongue in cheek... we're "honoured" - you should get it from that that it was in jest. And "you all want to"... (well it's not like you have much of a choice!)... And the capital U was a bit of a giveaway!</p>
<p>I know we're meant to have a sense of humour here in britain that others find confusing, but it really wasn't that covert!</p>