speaking "right"

Originally Posted by Phoque le PQ

I don't know much about other languages, but one thing's for sure: in French, France is quite egocentrical. It is the only French-speaking place that doesn't recognize (i was told Africa does) title feminization, and it seems to denigrate any norm NOT from the Academy (my brother-in-law-to-be showed it).

What about other languages? Does Spain try to dominate the Spanish language? What about England? Germany? Russia?

I'm unsure as to what you're asking here.

I think you're asking if the mother country of any language is the dominating, rule-setting language?

I know that it is not so with Americans and British. I hear that the Brits in the country really hate how Americans have mutated their language. We make up words and we mutate words, we add and substract from "The Queen's English."

I also know that Quebecois have mutated the French language pretty damned well. I'll be fucked if I go up there and either UNDERSTAND them or they understand ME. I remember trying to ask the simplest of questions, and no one could understand me. Their response in French was just as horrible to understand from my perspective.

It goes without saying that any "colony" (I use that term loosely) or establishemnt of a nation or peoples that have a foreign mothertongue will tend to mutate the language to their needs.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by russ

I hear that the Brits still speak the same form of English that has been around since the birth of the language, which is good, since otherwise they would have no basis for any distaste for what Americans have "done to their language".

Hey man, I'm not defending the assholes. They're just as fucking bad. I think they just hate Americans - like the rest of Europe.

Apparently, the word "moron" is a completely American-made word. The Brits seem to be a little bitter about it. I'm not sure why, exactly.

There's nowhere I can't reach.