Re: CHAT: I need help with the concept "New World Spanish"

Roger Mills scripsit:

> Now that you specify that _written_ Spanish is involved, I can't imagine
> such an argument.  It's like someone saying that this email is acceptable in
> the US, but not in Britain, Australia, Ghana or India.  Poppycock.
Well, everyone understands that emails are transient.  But books, AFAIK,
are usually typeset in two different versions, one with U.S. spellings,
one with COmmonwealth spellings.  That's the kind of acceptability
I'm talking about here  It's not exactly unheard of for selected words
to be changed as well.

> There is as little (or as much, if you will) difference between ordinary
> written LA and Peninsular Spanish as between written US and British English.
Fair enough, and nobody disputes the utility of the two separate labels.

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