I'm English, and this guy's a dickhead. It's not the vocabulary correction in itself, it's the reason given.
My children watch enough USA media / youtube output that I find myself gently correcting their vocabulary ("that's the American English word, the British English one is X") but honestly we all know what those words mean, especially in a USA accent. But no, I don't have "an unfavourable view of Americans" en masse. I might have unfavourable opinions of specific Americans, but not because they say "elevator" instead of "lift".
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I'm English, and this guy's a dickhead. It's not the vocabulary correction in itself, it's the reason given.
My children watch enough USA media / youtube output that I find myself gently correcting their vocabulary ("that's the American English word, the British English one is X") but honestly we all know what those words mean, especially in a USA accent. But no, I don't have "an unfavourable view of Americans" en masse. I might have unfavourable opinions of specific Americans, but not because they say "elevator" instead of "lift".