Re: Not on your linguistic Nellie

[Tompaleo@aol.com]

In a message dated 96-01-11 20:30:57 EST, you write:

>Fine, just don't call it English - be honest and call it American (for
>dummies?).  You lot have already had a good go at 'simplifying' the language
>- witness the perrenial writing of palaeontology as paleontology, and the
>absurd 'downsizing' of perfectly simple words like colour, harbour, etc. to
>(I'll just pause to let the fit on vomiting pass) COLOR (yuk!).  Some of us
>like a language with 'karaktur'. If you want a language full of double
>consonants then learn Gaelic.
>
>


Ok. I revise my earlier post. Replace "English" with "American" at the
appropriate places. ;-)

Interestingly, my wife hails from a former "English" colony (Trinidad)  where
they still use the Queen's English and drive on the wrong (left) side of the
road.  It still amazes me how often we miscommunicate despite the
similarities in the two languages. We have lots of fun needling each other in
the exact manner you so eloquently state above. But it's all in fun and no
one is assuming superiority over the other, full stop! (Oops, I meant period)
 ;-)

Regards,
Thomas R. Lipka
Paleontological/Geological Studies

(It must have something to do with that ther Revolutionary war thing)