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Re: My Final Thoughts on English

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Saturday, June 30, 2001, 22:56
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, David Peterson wrote:

> Well, I have a solution (possibly, "the" solution). Don't confuse > American English with English? Fine. Then no more! Let's all start now to > actively split up this monster. You can go by countries, or you can go by > regions, but let's all admit that we all speak different languages, or at > least that we're fast approaching that point. Thus, once we're all in our > little language groups (North Irish, English, East American, Southwest > American, Australian, Canadian), we can start to standardize our individual > spelling systems, and there will be absolutely no problems. > For a little while, at least.
Hm. Now here's something perhaps a bit ironic: I like this idea. Why ironic? For years I've argued that there is no such thing as Bosnian language or Croatian language or Serbian language, just 5 or 6 major dialects of one language, the rather poorly named Serbocroatian (or if you really must, Croatoserbian - but that's why it's poorly named!). Were it up to me I'd call it Southwestern Slavonic. But then people from Kozara or Lika or Banat might not like it...it refers to Slavonia you know.... =( you know, as much as I love that region and its people, I hate it that much too. -------ferko Ferenc Gy. Valoczy Free British Columbia! Virtual Votia - Vaddjamaa Internetaza: http://www.geocities.com/uralica railways page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3976/ 25kV 50Hz: http://www.mp3.com/25kV50Hz