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Stephen Forrest wrote:
> On 9/19/05, Jack & Naree <jack.macdaddy at 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?

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