Re: USAGE: Fänyläjikyl Inglyx

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.

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