On 07/19/2015 09:19 AM, michael norman wrote:
On 07/19/2015 01:40 PM, Billie Walsh wrote:
On 07/19/2015 01:51 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
I strongly take issue with the site regarding its foisting on people its blinked view of what is meant by the English language when a person selects this language from the original German: the English language is NOT the American language - as indicated by the American flag - but the BRITISH English language. American English is a mangled version of the English language.
England and the USofA are a single people separated by a common language.
No they are not, there exists no more in England or the US or anywhere else a "single people". Neither does there exist a common language in the sense you imply, however much you might wish the rest of the world accepts the US version. My "mangled" might be your "simplification" Language is a living thing, it changes and evolves. It belongs to all of us.
It was a bit of a misquote. "England and America are two countries separated by a common language." - George Bernard Shaw
At least as someone once stated. Our version of "English" is
not mangled, it's highly modified by the inclusion of other languages because of the "melting pot" nature of our country. Most of the rest of the world have added their language to ours.
The melting pot of your country that destroyed the culture it found and now has its police force shooting innocent black children ? You have integrated nobody.
M
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