I know that a lot of what we think of as "American English" words are
actually archaic forms of early 'English English'. Words like "gotten"
instead of "got", for example. But there's also a lot of blame or credit
(depending on your point of view) for the differences to be laid at the
door of a certain Mr. Noah Webster:
https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/amp/2018/05/07/noah-webster-american-identity-simplified-spelling-movement/
I was kind of half-joking in my original post. But, as someone who
considers himself highly literate, I do actually find it does grate a bit,
having to (from my point of view) deliberately spell words wrong, when I'm
coding.
I get my revenge in the code comments though, where I resolutely stick to
"colour", "centre", "programme", etc.
I wonder if I'm am isolated case, or whether any other native English
speakers are slightly irked by having to code in "bad spelling" too?
On 17 May 2019 21:26:29 Michael Jones <michael.jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
I know that you joke here, but I had an interesting dinner conversation in
London last year with erudite, scholarly friends who shared with me that
recent research supports a different view of the "barbaric Americanised
false English" that is the prevailing sentiment you share.
According to the scholars they mentioned, "American English" is indeed a
true, pure, "real" English; just one from a time-capsule, an English from
1776 that did not advance significantly since American independence. This
view suggests that were a BBC presenter and an American to travel back to
meet with King George, it would be the American who sounded "right" and not
the other way around.
This time-capsule argument is not an argument against modern evolved
English, but it is an interesting notion of a living language in the
homeland might become a historical artifact through cargo culting in the
breakaway colony. Insightful as to human psychology and something to
remember amongst the lessons of wisdom.
Michael
(a barbaric American-English 1776 throwback ;-)
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 9:41 AM <ma...@madra.net> wrote:
Spare a thought for those of us who actually speak and write 'proper'
English and not that American version used in all programming languages.
We get to write in our own language but have to remember to spell half the
words wrong!
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