Comment on Linguistics
Squirrel@thelemmy.club 1 month agoI think spellings and punctuation are still valid. Mostly. Ignore variations between English and Americanese.
Comment on Linguistics
Squirrel@thelemmy.club 1 month agoI think spellings and punctuation are still valid. Mostly. Ignore variations between English and Americanese.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
In not the Americans’ fault that the English decided to butcher their own language after the US kicked them out
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
The spelling differences are actually mostly due to Noah Webster standarsing what he saw as pure Anglo-Saxon English without corruption by French princelings.
Squirrel@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Hah, that makes sense.
psud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
England and all its former colonies (except the American ones) agree on the language, and the only odd one out - the United States feels it is unique among former colonies and its parent nation as the sole owner of the most correct version of English.
Seems likely /s
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I know this is all a joke, but Canada doesn’t share the UK’s… proclivities with language