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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article <8d2g6bywkmat$.q1oq91x7g0b2.dlg@40tude.net>,   
   b.scott@csuohio.edu wrote:   
   > On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:21:06 +1200, Your Name   
   >  wrote in   
   >    
   > in rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:   
   > > In article , "Default User"   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >> Your Name wrote:   
   > >>>   
   > >>> No change there - Americans are always making up   
   > >>> meanings and spellings to ENGLISH to suit themselves.   
   > >>> :-\   
   > >>   
   > >> As have the English for many centuries. I recall reading   
   > >> that some of the complaints made by those in England   
   > >> regarding misuses or neologisms in the colonies turned   
   > >> out to be usages that were once standard but had changed   
   > >> in England, to the point where the English forgot about   
   > >> them.   
   > >   
   > > Yes, but the English invented the language (okay, they   
   > > stole it from various other languages),   
   >   
   > Neither statement is correct.  For that matter, the notion   
   > that there is only one English is incorrect.   
      
   Both parts are correct. "English" is made up from various other languages,   
   some based in what is now Great Britain and some from other countries   
   further afield, including German, French, Latin, etc.   
      
      
      
   > > so they morally have the right to be able to change it if   
   > > they want to.   
   >   
   > It isn't a matter of rights or morality.  It's simply how   
   > languages work: they change.   
      
   Languages don't change - people change them, mostly people too lazy or too   
   stupid to use it the correct way.   
      
   The French actually have a committee that officially accepts or rejects   
   changes to the French language. Of course that doesn't stop the people out   
   on the street making up all sorts of words and phrases themselves, but it   
   does stop them becoming an official part of the dictionary.   
      
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