Re: USAGE: Fänyläjikyl Inglyx

Roland Hoensch wrote:

> And Hungarian too is understand by people all around the world.
> (As Hungarians, or Second Language speakers of Hungarians live
> all around the world.)
> Same with German, Spanish, French, Serbo-Croation, etc.
Quite true, and I don't deny it.  However, English, Spanish, French,
and German are multinational languages in a way that Hungarian is not.
(Serbo-Croatian is a multinational language, but the nations in
question deny it!)

> The US does *not* have an authoritative dictionary.  If anything
> it would be the British Received Standard.  Why?  Because American
> English has Brance off of British English (much like Americans
> branched off of the British) and not vice-versa.
There is no official dictionary of British English either.
The O.E.D. is highly respected, but has no official standing.

> And Canada too has its own national dictionaries which designate proper
> Canadian English use.
If so, I'm glad to hear it.

> I won't say people like You, but rather opinions like Yours are the reason
> that English and consequently Anglophones are near-demonized in many
> places around the world.
*shrug*

I don't see it.  I say that dividing written English into national
languages would be a disaster, and you don't make any countervailing
arguments.

> And on a final note: I do not mean to institute an international spelling
> for English--but if I did, whether or not Americans like it/accept it would
> be my last concern.  If English were or will ever be a World Language,
> American opinions about it will be quite irrelevant, won't they now?
Well, no.

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