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Jun 22, 2004, 7:07pm

[View Quote] Feel free to post this for me, as my citizenship has expired -- it is a
very well thought out rebuttal... didn't get a chance to proofread it
though before I fired it off:

The language English is for the most part, whole within all it's
dialects. The Americans have their own unique dialect (which includes
the slang), while British share the majority of their dialect with
Australia, Canada, and India (excluding slang). Now, there is no
difference between the written English that cannot be ascertained by
someone with a brain. The American dialect was meant to correct the
British dialect in the exact pronunciation of the word, and using the
correct standard English ruleset. Usually by removal of silent letters,
such as the ever famous u in honor, color, et al. (there are a few
other rules such as the S->Z principle which isn't really that important
-- but is more correct when following the rules of standard written
English).

The American dialect was also developed to seperate the United States
from the mother country. Rather than develop a whole new language, we
just outfited the language to what we saw fit. Just like we did to who
ruled our country. It is our dialect after all, not England's.

Although the American accent is flat, it is still a very unique accent
and there are extreme variations in it. One need only look within the
state of New York to see the almost complete inversal of the accents.

I think England should be less concerned with how well some Americans
use the American dialect of English and more concerned with how to cook
without using beans and eggs together. Or just beans on anything, for
that matter. The Germans should've dropped cook books on you. Now, go
eat your chips and stop acting like a zealous, British, political undergrad.

To argue the United States stole the English language is like arguing
the strawberries are always fresh when wild. Oh, by the way Richard, if
you're going to say "US" make sure to use the proper punctuation, ie
"U.S." as that's the _proper_ method in standard written English. I'm
not saying I'm perfect with it either, but it is an abbreviation, you
must treat it as such. Only the American dialect allows for you to use
no periods for abbreviation. But since most of us are on the internet,
we tend to use the easier way; and that includes the American
abbreviation system. Well... at least I'm not aware of any rule in the
Queen's English that allows for you to abbreviate without a period.

--Bowen--



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