Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)
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From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>
To: Weaver <weaver@riseup.net>
Subject: Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution
left me with eggs in my face)
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:14:15 +0200
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 10:51 +1000, Weaver wrote:
> This issue gets revisited on this list from time to time.
> It's all rather simple really!
> English is a language and 'American English' is a dialect.
> Dialects, from time to time, have a way of becoming possessed of
> delusions of grandeur and, believing that there is an opportunity for
> world domination, create initiatives such as making it the default for
> Operating System installations and ongoing processing.
I suspect that it becomes default for OS is related to the two companies
"Apfel" and "Winzigweich" that are from the USA. Germans learn British
English, just for kids it's cool to use US English, but since it's not
our native language, we're mixing both English + adding some German
habits.
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