friend, i agree with you point by point and i believe there has been some miscommunication between us. I explictly stated that the simpler word should be used instead of the more complex one. "Many of those 500,000 words would not be understood by

sorry to revive this discussion if it has already been past expiration, but i think not nearly enough has been discussed about this subject. I must warn anyone i usually have an indirect and evasive way of writing or speaking, so please forgive me

Hello Mike in Japan- Arguments claiming American English to be a “dumbed down” or “lazy” version of British English are based on the erroneous premise that American English is a perversion of British English. Any real linguist will tell you

Hi, I just noticed a loose thread in my last post; there’s a spelling mistake; and I neglected to pay my debt to a useful web page about Orwell. I guess, this is just an informal folksy type of interchange so I’ll come to the point. Newspeak’s

>> Thanks Pemmican for your well thought out comments. You strike me as a diligent language scholar, so I greatly appreciate what you have to say. Thank you very much, Mike, but I wouldn't say I strike you This is just the way I see it.