The OP did not coin the term, nor did they "bastardize" anything. Are you kidding me? Are you in Junior High or something? Let's go ahead and get this cleared up before you lose focus and go back to doodling with crayons and magic markers: 1. Regardless, were trying to sound like a pompous, pretentious tool? Or, are you just a natural at it? Honestly, I don't think you could make your comment anymore antagonistic and petty if you tried. And just think, Manderin is the "easy" language in China compared to Cantanese. I just hope it isn't Chinese that comes next, that is a really hard language to learn. That is just par for the course as we move into the future. Lingua Francas come and go so please no tears when it is English's turn to fall. Something else will come along and take English's place the same as English displaced French, French displaced Latin, and Latin displaced Greek, which it self had displaced Syriac. English will not be the dominate language for much longer. This makes English a very interesting language, but also a very difficult language and one that is ill suited for the International standard as it is well on its way to meltdown and fracture. The funniest thing is that it picked up "do support", probably from a Celtic language. It shows signs of having had a huge group of Semitic pidgin speakers at one point, then is went through Grimms Law and then it dropped Gender markers and declensions. It can not be denied that the various English speakers around the world have pushed the language almost to the point of being different languages that are unintelligible to each other. Just read the Federalist Papers and it says so right there. If the US has any integrity at all then it needs to realize that Freedom of Speech also was intended to mean the Freedom to Speak whatever Language you want. (as in you can't say that murder is murder because the person who did is it a poor teenage girl). (I am pulling for Houma myself but French or Spanish would do just as well.) Freedom of Speech, which originally was intended as the freedom to speak the TRUTH, now just means the freedom to lie as much as you want and actually speaking the truth in the US is considered hate speech. The day may come when most "Americans" no longer speak English. I could just as easily publish a "more correct" IPA spell checker to force people to spell the way the actually sound that that would not be useful.Īs far as some states go, there are some with English as the "official" language but at the Federal Level there can never be an "official" language because of the First Amendment, and really that is a good thing. The fact that we have a US English spell checker to suggest corrections for the way words are most commonly and acceptably spelled in the United States is good for those users. English is a continum of dialects, as most languages are. Look, most people who come to this site don't know the jargon of someone with a Linguistics degree or someone who listens to John McWharter.
US ENGLISH DICTIONARY FILE FOR WORD ISO
I find this of interest because that which is most-subject to debate is often that which has direct implication on practical matters.Īnyway, as an adopted ISO code, en_US is probably most correct. This topic, like so many highly politically-charged topics, is moot, since "correctness" is ultimately determined by intelligibility, and intelligibility is by definition governed by usage.Īs an interesting side note, the word "moot" originally meant "subject to debate" but now most commonly means "irrelevant to practice". Sorry to all of you linguistic prescriptionists out there, but the increasingly rapid pace of information transfer is paralleled by an increasingly rapid pace of language-shift. I make up new words all the time using extant morphemes, and they're perfectly correct as long as my audience (in my case usually my professors, but occasionally the public at large) accepts them as such. English is determined independently by anyone who can get his/her dictionary/grammar guide published and widely accepted (though the - currently - major players in the field tend to base their definitions on trends in institutional academic writing, listing "incorrect" common usage as slang, neologism, colloquialism, vernacular, etc.). English isn't even its language, as we have no official language legislative documents are just as valid in Aramaic, for example, as they are in English). government, unlike those of many European countries, does not legislate the proper use of its language (in fact, U.S. especially considering the fact that there IS NO single "correct" form of U.S.
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