On 19/09/05, Mike Kuklinski admin@kuattech.com wrote:
On 18/09/05, Jack & Naree jack.macdaddy@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia Anglo-Saxon?! Wikipedia Middle English?!! Wikipedia Scot's English?!!! I want Wikipedia English English!!!
I am going to to reply to the original post, since the follow-ups are irrelevant.
Irrelevent, how?
American-dialect English (also known as American-English) is more
related to English of the 17th-18th century than 'Commonwealth-English' is.
What you mean is, the American dialect appears to have retained more obvious features of C17th English, whilst also evolving new ones of its own.
Neither Commonwealth-English nor American-English are
'English-English' or proper English more than the other;
Whilst neither Commonwealth English nor American-English *are* 'English English'; but, Commonwealth English includes English English and the accents and less divergent dialects of Commonwealth countries, which are more or less the same as written English English. So you're basically incorrect. 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. American-English is an out and out dialect of English. How can English English be a dialect of English? (NB, I'm basing my definition on the written word not the regional spoken dialects of England).
if you want
proper English, look to Shakespearean early Modern English.
Incorrect, if you want proper English, go to England; that is where the English language is spoken by the English people, of England.
By the way, I am an American.
That was fairly obvious from the "get go".
--Mike
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