Re: Foreigner(s)

"Amethyst Deceiver" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelelsen
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In article <49b9295d$0$15899$edfadb0f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Arne H.
Wilstrup" says...

"James Hogg" <Jas.Hogg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelelsen
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:43:40 +0000, Chuck Riggs
<chriggs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:32:39 +0100, "Arne H. Wilstrup" <ahw> wrote:

<jens@xxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelelsen
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On 11 Mar., 19:27, Hatunen <hatu...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:55:59 -0700, "Reinhold [Rey] Aman"

Hatunen:
"Of course it is. Try looking up bigotry in your favorite
dictionary?"

Actually, Arne or Jens posted that. I saw it in Arne's post,
but
his attributes ares so screwed I can't be sure.

I posted that. Arne prefers "favourite".

Which is English - favorite is American spelling, I think.

"Favorite" is AmE and "favourite" is BrE, to use the abbreviations
often used in AUE.

And Arne needs to be briefly reminded that both are equally E.

Why? I am not entitled to write AmE and BrE all mixed up in an Essay.
I
have to differ between the two "different" languages in my
assignments.
And there are differences in spelling, although there are little
differences in grammar.

You missed the point. Both 'favourite' and 'favorite' are English. You
can get the spellings mixed up in an essay if you wish. That is not
the
issue. The issue is suggesting that American is not English. It is a
variety of English, as are British, Scots, Canadian, Australian and
other varieties.

American = English? You must be joking!

Mencken* wrote a series of books under the general title The American
Language.Why did he choose this particular title? Why not The English
Language in America?

Some speakers of African American Vernacular English maintain that their
language is not a variety of English but is a separate language in its
own right and refer to it as Ebonics. In contrast , speakers of
Cantonese and Mandarin deny that they speak different languages; they
maintain that Cantonese and Mandarin are not autonomous languages but
are just two dialects of Chinese. Creole and Pidgin languages cause us
not a few problems when we try to apply this criterion: how autonomous
are such languages?

Historically, the standard variety of English is based on the dialect of
English that developed after the Norman Conquest resulted in the
permanent removal of the Court from Winchester to London. This dialect
became the one preferred by the educated, and it was developed and
promoted as a model, a norm, for wider and wider segments of society.

*Mencken. H.L. The American Language, New York: A.A. Knopf.


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