By Spelling, Lazy English

"I much prefer the attitude of the British. They have enough respect for the language to use correct spelling, clear enunciation and to observe the correct use of prepositions and general grammar. On the other hand, some Americans seem to like reinventing the language as they go."To use a...

Noah Webster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster) had a huge influence on american english. He is responsible for many of the differences in spelling. Also, after the revolutionary war in 1776, many americans were only too happy to differentiate themselves from Britain by using different...

Mike In Japan wrote:Hi Elida, welcome to the forums.Well, we were talking about irregular English usage, and Anonymous had made a post with a couple of irregularities in spelling; hough for though, and peole for people, which I used as an example.Marvin then joked about the way I should spell...

Hi Elida, welcome to the forums. Well, we were talking about irregular English usage, and Anonymous had made a post with a couple of irregularities in spelling; hough for though, and peole for people, which I used as an example.Marvin then joked about the way I should spell English. You see,...

Wow, what a lot of nonesense.Is American English simply lazy English with disregard for the fundamentals of the language, or is it a valid simplification of an overly complex and irregular language?Huh? What are you talking about? I was hoping nobody would ask, but since you did, I much...

An interesting discussion. I think it's great that there are so many different varieties of English in the world today. It surely does add colo(u)r. But if you have to write English for an international readership, you have to choose, which is not easy... I like following the Oxford English...

"Is American English simply lazy English with disregard for the fundamentals of the language, or is it a valid simplification of an overly complex and irregular language?" The first one. I don't feel it's right the way Americans are treating this beautiful language. I think that in everyday...

It is perhaps better to dispense with the idea that there is only one English that is correct. In a nutshell American and British English are but two dialects of ENGLISH. "They have enough respect for the language to use correct spelling, clear enunciation and to observe the correct use of...

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 minimalism and over-complex language may appear to be...

There is nothing wrong with adapting, ammending or streamlining the English language. It should evolve with us. Certainly the Americans seem to be insistant on this trend. O.K. Q. So why do Americans stick to the antiquated imperial system of measurement? As nationalities continually interact...