CHAT/SNARKY: Englishes

Roland Hoensch wrote:

> How is a statement that English is branching off into different
> languages turn into contempt?  And sadly if I were to stop
> writing in English, while I could still read what I was writing;
> You probably could not.
Actually, I probably could, if I felt like it.  Thanks for the
stereotype, though.

> I one started writing Latin and Italian the same, would they
> become the same language?
If one hadn't lost the grammatical cases of the other, added
articles, lost a gender, and revised verb conjugation, among other
things.  I defy you to point me to similar differences between, say,
U.S. and Indian English.

> Are the various Englishes the
> same just because nobody bothered to properly revise their
> spelling after they branched off?
Not "the same," clearly different dialects.  So?

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