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Christina Websell wrote:
I have quite a few American friends and we disagree all the time about their idea of English and mine. American English is very different from "English" English. Sorry, that is complete nonsense. Ask someone if a book they are reading was published in the UK or US, and I'll guarantee they will have no idea 90% of the time. The language spoken in the two countries is essentially identical. I don't know why people make up this pretence that there is a great difference between them. Even the accents are converging, as are accents within the UK. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin |
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"Timothy Murphy" wrote in message ... Christina Websell wrote: I have quite a few American friends and we disagree all the time about their idea of English and mine. American English is very different from "English" English. Sorry, that is complete nonsense. Ask someone if a book they are reading was published in the UK or US, and I'll guarantee they will have no idea 90% of the time. The language spoken in the two countries is essentially identical. I don't know why people make up this pretence that there is a great difference between them. Even the accents are converging, as are accents within the UK. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net Disagree. The Harry Potter books were pages shorter when they took out the "u"s in colour, behaviour, etc. for Americans. I'm not saying that Americans don't speak English (as such) it's just that it's their version. It's American. I'm not trying to horrible about it. |
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On 7/12/2015 12:48 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Christina Websell wrote: I have quite a few American friends and we disagree all the time about their idea of English and mine. American English is very different from "English" English. Sorry, that is complete nonsense. I think so too. Ask someone if a book they are reading was published in the UK or US, and I'll guarantee they will have no idea 90% of the time. The language spoken in the two countries is essentially identical. I don't know why people make up this pretence that there is a great difference between them. Even the accents are converging, Indeed they are. I know there are a lot of British, Australian and Kiwi actors on US TV and play spot the actor and then try to find a hint in the accent of their home country. It's almost impossible these days. as are accents within the UK. |
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