[Wikipedia-l] Re: Anglicised English British English

[Jack & Naree]

Well I don't want to live in an Americanised world; I'd rather take arms 
against a sea of illiterate yanks, than suffer the slings and arrows of 
their nauseating makey-uppy drawl. (and yes I do have American friends!)
 I know it's not going to feed the starving children in Africa, but I simply 
can't feckin' stand seeing the word "center" and "color" and hearing people 
raising the intonation at the end of their sentences.
 American-English is like a giant linguistic fingernail down the English 
blackboard. 
 On 19/09/05, Giuseppe DAngelo <pippudoz at yahoo.it> wrote: 
> 
> I love these kinds of debates - the ones that can go around in circles 
> until the cows come home. Sure, I get pissed off (AE pissed) at american 
> spellings as much as the next bloke - but it doesn't mean I can't follow 
> what's going on - nor does it mean that it will ever influence my pristine, 
> strawberries and cream, Oxbridge, very best of the Queen's english - with a 
> name like Giuseppe d'Angelo - you wouldn't expect otherwise would you?
> 
> I love the fact that there are a couple of thousand words that might be 
> found in wikipedia with two spellings (both equally acceptable). It makes it 
> easier for me to point to my thick skulled paisani and say to them: don't 
> worry if a word can be spelled two or three (or five or seven) ways in 
> Sicilian - it's the same word and we all understand it regardless of how you 
> want to spell it - it's not as big an issue as you think - look at English! 
> - the language of the lower orders under Norman rule now rules the world - 
> but the varieties are as many as teams in the English FA. It hasn't mattered 
> one jot - there are more important things to worry about - like who will win 
> out of the Sydney Swans and West Coast Eagles this Saturday at the MCG and 
> will Bazza be rubbed out for a week? And has there truly been a leak in the 
> brownlow voting? Now they're important questions!
> Salutamu
> pippu d'angelo
> 
> 
> 
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