Stephen Forrest wrote:
On 9/19/05, Jack & Naree jack.macdaddy@gmail.com wrote:
Americans seem to want to believe that they speak English, and we speak British English in England (meaning Britain!). They are wrong. They speak a dialect of our language, called American-English, an offshoot from the main trunk if you will, which has evolved somewhat independently of English.
Look, this is getting tiresome. The only argument you could provide on why written British English has greater legitimacy than written American English is that it happens to be written by people who mostly still live where the writers of the written language ancestral to both once lived.
What about the French Wikipedia? How do they feel?
This is a political consideration, not a linguistic one. Since this political point is not commonly accepted, it is POV and therefore unsuitable for Wikipedia.
What about the Portuguese Wikipedia? How do they feel?