| but for the foreseeable future there is little or no doubt that BrE is far more widespread and popular (and dare I say a lot more accurate |
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I am coming late to this discussion, but I would like to contribute my two cents' worth, or the equivalent in pence (or Euro cents). I greatly appreciate Young Californian's defense of American English and all Americans from this ongoing diatribe, and I agree with the earlier poster who suggested that it would be nice if "Guest" adopted a registered screen name so we know if we are dealing with one assailant or several. No one uses actual names here, but you could at lest have the courage of your convictions to sign your posts with a screen name we can identify from one time to the next.
I find it amazing, and rather frightening, that there are people who are "disgusted" by the very existence of an American version of English.
As far as the passage I quoted, I can't even understand what it would mean for one language, or version of a language, to be "more accurate" than another. Do you mean is it capable of finer distinctions? Do you mean that assertions expressed in it have a higher degree of truth than assertions in another language? Do you mean that it is closer to the ideal Platonic form of language, of which all existing languages are merely poor approximations? Please clarify your meaning, if you can do so with a minimum of venom.