Comment by penguin_booze
5 months ago
Calling British English (also known as just English) 'non-American English' is like calling an original a 'non-duplicate'.
American is basically English with typos, bad grammar, and bad style.
5 months ago
Calling British English (also known as just English) 'non-American English' is like calling an original a 'non-duplicate'.
American is basically English with typos, bad grammar, and bad style.
English is basically a random mix of half a dozen languages with typos, bad grammar and bad style. All of its dialects have ridiculous spelling.
I like and endorse Webster's reforms (-or, -er, -ize). Why write the French way? What have the Normans ever done for us? Apart from the legal system, chivalry, heraldry, and centuries of low-key class warfare.
> What have the Normans ever done for us? Apart from the legal system, chivalry, heraldry, and centuries of low-key class warfare.
And the abolition of slavery in England - not of great benefit to the rest of the world I suppose.
Some of the evolution of parliamentary democracy?
Low key class warfare is better than the high key version - look at the French revolution and the like!
> American is basically English with typos, bad grammar, and bad style.
In that sense, english is basically bastardized old norse.
Well if the British invented something for once they can spell that thing with extra letters.
Hallelujah
Somebody must be remarkably thin skinned and with a poor sense of humour (the kind spelt with a 'U') to have downvoted you!