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Big Al
Can we make it English, and not 'American English', please?
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Big Al
Can we make it English, and not 'American English', please?
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Big Al
Can we make it English, and not 'American English', please?
What about Scots then (to make it a bit of a challenge for the non-Scottish)
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Big Al
Can we make it English, and not 'American English', please?
What about Scots then (to make it a bit of a challenge for the non-Scottish)
Scots? Well, it's unintelligible to anyone not from Scotland. A bit like Welsh At least our glorious language is understood globally. In fact, it is the language of the world; courtesy of Germanic tribes! The Angles, The Saxons!
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windmelody
Bridges to Babylon.
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bv
Feel free to write "color" or "colour" or "gaz" or "petrol" and so on, i.e. US or UK English.
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Big Al
Can we make it English, and not 'American English', please?
What about Scots then (to make it a bit of a challenge for the non-Scottish)
Scots? Well, it's unintelligible to anyone not from Scotland. A bit like Welsh At least our glorious language is understood globally. In fact, it is the language of the world; courtesy of Germanic tribes! The Angles, The Saxons!
Your wit, your speech, your repartee impressed me almost instantly!
That said, we should compromise and go Canadian English. No one wins with this to be clear but the beaver as our new emblem shows we're busy and mean business!
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Big Al
Can we make it English, and not 'American English', please?
What about Scots then (to make it a bit of a challenge for the non-Scottish)
Scots? Well, it's unintelligible to anyone not from Scotland. A bit like Welsh At least our glorious language is understood globally. In fact, it is the language of the world; courtesy of Germanic tribes! The Angles, The Saxons!
Your wit, your speech, your repartee impressed me almost instantly!
That said, we should compromise and go Canadian English. No one wins with this to be clear but the beaver as our new emblem shows we're busy and mean business!
Thank you, treaclefingers! I did reside in Canada at one time, actually. I did find it baffling how they ‘sort-of’ combine the two! Funny old speech, there. Loved it, though.
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josepi
How bout we make up our own language?
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josepi
How bout we make up our own language?
I think we have ...
...it's called Gibberish ..and many of us are quite fluent
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Big Al
Can we make it English, and not 'American English', please?
What about Scots then (to make it a bit of a challenge for the non-Scottish)
Scots? Well, it's unintelligible to anyone not from Scotland. A bit like Welsh At least our glorious language is understood globally. In fact, it is the language of the world; courtesy of Germanic tribes! The Angles, The Saxons!
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ds1984
If Canada becomes IORR speaking reference alors il faut inclure le french.
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ds1984
I have forgoten the number of french rooted words is modern english but that is quite a lot.
And french in its turn includes some arabian terms.