Celebrate the Decline and Fall of the U.S. Empire at YAPC::NA::2008

[Paul Makepeace]

Aww, those poor minorities (Brits) getting up in arms about their
niche language modifications!

Come on now, changing -ize to -ise: not the smartest move, eh? The
clue's in the sound!

(It is mildly irritating seeing developers make a pitiful stand about
this naming CPAN modules ending in ise.)

P

On 3/13/08, Mark Keating <mdk at shadowcatsystems.co.uk> wrote:
> To be absolutely fair the only people who refer to it as British English
>  are not from Britain.
>
>  Also it isn't a divergence it is an evolution, we cannot diverge from
>  our own language.
>
>  American/Pidgin/Australian Englishes etc and eta al are the 'divergent'
>  forms by this definition, as for their hegenomy that's a hugely
>  different argument.
>
>  But English has always been a slut of a language, mostly Germanic with
>  some Latin rules, a host of stolen words from French (beef, rendevouz,
>  entrepaneur etc.) and the casual nature to absorb what it cannot simulate.
>
>  I love it.
>
>  But it doesn't belong to anyone. And comparitively it is closer to 13th
>  Century Flemish (but there again we always did have more history ;p )
>
>  Also there are many great American Linguists who could argue this for
>  you, see Labov or Chomsky for example. You guys are generally lovely,
>  your 'Prezident'(1) is a Pillock ;)
>
>  1. Stop putting Zs in our words or we'll get our own back
>
>
>
>  Jonathan Rockway wrote:
>  > * On Thu, Mar 13 2008, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>  >
>  >> Can we have our language back now please? You people have nearly
>  >> destroyed it.
>  >>
>  >
>  > To be fair, both British English and American English are two separate
>  > languages that once shared a (now dead) ancestor.  As far as I know,
>  > your guys' version of English has diverged more from 18th century
>  > English than ours has, however.
>  >
>  >   http://www.englishclub.com/english-language-history.htm
>  >
>  > Never let facts get in the way of bashing us stupid Americans.
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  > Jonathan Rockway
>  >
>  >
>
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>
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>
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