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Comment by penguin_booze

4 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.

Somebody must be remarkably thin skinned and with a poor sense of humour (the kind spelt with a 'U') to have downvoted you!