@Kendo

WTF Please elaborate. This is very interesting.

I think he means that the citizens of America had to vote on what their national language would be, and it was barely english, with german as a close second.

But I have two votes left! C++ 'cause it's the best progamming language that i know of and Latin cause it's so simple and killing-related.

I didn't know Wolfy was Italian? Wolfy, or should i say "Lupo" where are your family from? (not your house or America, I mean before that. where do they hail from in Italy?) My family come from Seregno, just north of Milano, about halfway between Monza and Cantu. Before that they lived in Ravenna, in Emilia-Romagna, but they moved to Lombardy after the war.

Why do people like American? They take perfectly good English words like bin or pavement and turn into crap words like trashcan and *shudders* sidewalk .
Why do they do this? The only concievable reason I could think of would be to annoy me and also to spit on their English heritage.

I'm making record time!
If only I had someplace to be...

Actually, American English is sortof a time warp from the English spoken in the 1600s. That's why you have double-negatives, "truck" instead of "lorry", and stuff like that.

Double negatives was commonly used by alll classes of English people in the 1700s. Along came a doctor who decided to reinvent English grammar for the emerging middle-class. A lot of "grammatical" rules he made up were actually borrowed from Latin and a few logical statements (eg. double negatives = positive).

Re: the German speaking Amerika.

It's an urban myth. America does not have a legal official language anywhere. English seems like it because "we've always spoken English, so why change". Unlike Canada, where both English and French are legally recognized as official languages.

What are your views on Austrlaian English, pieman?

*Mental note: This will be interesting... *

lol i was just thinking about the double negatives equal positive sentences (i was even going to post a topic about it but i thought it would probably be locked very fast)
then i got all crazy and having triple negatives to confuse it (i.e. it is'nt ain't not fair!)
but..double negatives in america!!?? ive been taught not to use that though

taw, sorry i havent asked that much from my parents..they just said italy and stuff like when we came here and that was good enough 4 me...although i could use the latest ancestor history program from http://www.myparents.com/download/ancestors/


edit: howcome italy isnt on there!!?? last i saw it was 1 vote, then i voted for it, but its not on any of the lists


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Edited by - ):Wolf_Demon on 2/20/2004 9:19:20 PM

Aussie? You guys are nuts. Canucks are nuts. Only yanks are insane, but Brits... man.... AUGH!!! Aussie english is...welll... English, pretty much.

The double-negatives, while officially illegal (beware of the FBI) are still used by many. Like me. And a lot of people I know (no, I'm not sure about our buddy Nelly (E) but..........

Of course, I'm laughing at some English settler countries. So... yeah...

ur insultin' me 'onor mate!
'ud best keep you slack jawed 'lokelin' to 'urself mate, or imm 'gonna bashy ya

Votes-
Binary- 1
Latin-2
Silence-3

pieman - Took the safe way out, eh? No, Australian English is very close to British English, but there are differences (obviously). These mainly have to do with semantics and the vernacular.

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howcome italy isnt on there!!?? last i saw it was 1 vote, then i voted for it, but its not on any of the lists

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Sorry, I'll double check

I wonder why nobody has mentioned Newspeak yet... (subtle hint)



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