XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   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.   
      
   > 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.   
      
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