Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Maestro, welcome back
I think you see the illogic of that. Or you probably don't based on your past record shown here.
Hyphens: if I used any hyphens myself I would have to attribute that to a much too long period of detoxicity. (That reminds me of another ridiculous Britishism: "...alchohol and other stimulants..". Since when has cannabis, barbituates, morphine, heroine, alchohol, etc. been stimulants? They're downers dude. Intoxicants. Saw that somewhere else on these boards.) Anyway, It is not American-English when referred to in linguistic contexts, it's American English. Similar to the common mistake you Brits make calling African Americans Afro-Americans. Afro-Americans is so 20th century, from ca 1967.
So, get over it Hotpoint. We speak English, dude. Just like the Canadians, Australians, some South Africans, New Zealanders and Irish. Then there is "Majority English", the new English spoken by the 100s of millions of people around the world who use English as an official language or just to do business. Those users outnumber all the native-speakers of English combined.
There, told you!
Now, let's hear some Frenchies cry about how theirs used to be a world language and get somewhat back on topic.
You send the kids to school and whadda they do? They eat the books. After all that proof I gave you, you still insist on hanging up on the English-sminglish thing. When someone on the streets of Stockholm asks me, "Do you speak English?", what am I gonna answer him, "No, actually I speak a southern dialect of what some people may refer to as American English, although some very sensitive and picky types of Great Britain are offended at the calling of my native language "English", therefore I would have to, in the interest of linguistic purity and deference to those who want to hold to some nostalgic semblence of imperialism, say no."Originally posted by Hotpoint
Assumed you were following Wadditz line and meant American hyphen English not American comma English but if I was wrong then I've got to say you'd be showing more respect not calling what you speak English
And for the record I'd rather be annoying the French
I think you see the illogic of that. Or you probably don't based on your past record shown here.
Hyphens: if I used any hyphens myself I would have to attribute that to a much too long period of detoxicity. (That reminds me of another ridiculous Britishism: "...alchohol and other stimulants..". Since when has cannabis, barbituates, morphine, heroine, alchohol, etc. been stimulants? They're downers dude. Intoxicants. Saw that somewhere else on these boards.) Anyway, It is not American-English when referred to in linguistic contexts, it's American English. Similar to the common mistake you Brits make calling African Americans Afro-Americans. Afro-Americans is so 20th century, from ca 1967.
So, get over it Hotpoint. We speak English, dude. Just like the Canadians, Australians, some South Africans, New Zealanders and Irish. Then there is "Majority English", the new English spoken by the 100s of millions of people around the world who use English as an official language or just to do business. Those users outnumber all the native-speakers of English combined.
There, told you!
Now, let's hear some Frenchies cry about how theirs used to be a world language and get somewhat back on topic.
