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   From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article <8d2g6bywkmat$.q1oq91x7g0b2.dlg@40tude.net>,   
   Brian M. Scott  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.   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
      
   The English have been speaking English for over a thousand years.  If they   
   can't get it right, what hope do we Yanks have?   
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