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[Ray Saintonge]

Jack & Naree wrote:

>On 19/09/05, Mike Kuklinski <admin at kuattech.com> wrote: 
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>>On 18/09/05, Jack & Naree <jack.macdaddy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>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?
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I presume you are referring to the dialect of the ruling classes.

>(NB, I'm basing my definition on the written word not the regional spoken 
>dialects of England).
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That does narrow your outlook.

> if you want
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>>proper English, look to Shakespearean early Modern English.
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>Incorrect, if you want proper English, go to England; that is where the 
>English language is spoken by the English people, of England.
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Which part of England?