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Re: USAGE: Fänyläjikyl Inglyx

From:B Elliott Walker <umwalk05@...>
Date:Monday, December 6, 1999, 23:06
Roland Hoensch wrote:

> No, NO, NOOOO! English is *NOT* a World Language. > English is the *language of several nations around the world*.
Written English is understood by persons around the world. What you are proposing would be a balkanization on a massive scale.
> Each Country has its own national version of English and dictionaries as > well.
Not. The U.S. has no authoritative dictionary, not even de facto, much less de jure. Canada has AFAIK no dictionary at all.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hey! there's at Least 3 Canadian English Dictionaries out
there, the most notable being the Oxford Canadian Dictionary. It's simply beeeeeeeeoooooooooootiful, in my opine. Nor India, which has a huge volume of second-language speakers and a small but growing number of native speakers.
> The end result would be no different than Spanish and Portugese. They can > understand each other, but do not neccessarly speak each other's language > perfectly.
Spanish/Portuguese intelligibility works a lot better in speech than in writing, and it's a lot easier for Portuguese-speakers to understand Spanish than vice versa. Splitting English into utterly different languages would be an unmitigated disaster. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)