[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia English English
Delirium
delirium at hackish.org
Mon Sep 19 14:38:10 UTC 2005
Jack & Naree wrote:
> Incorrect, if you want proper English, go to England; that is where the
>English language is spoken by the English people, of England.
>
>
Incorrect. Usage among the educated class of England is no longer
definitional of the English language.
In any case, this debate is unlikely to go anywhere. Our friend "Jack &
Naree" is obviously a imperialist of the eldest variety, and unlikely to
be convinced that his particular bastardized dialect of
early-21st-century English is anything but the divinely-sanctioned
correct one.
-Mark
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