"Well allow me to retort. What does proper english sound like?"
I'd say the one from England, considering that's the origin. It's what all the other English variants are the closest to. American English is probably the one that's deviated the most from it, but is the most widespread because a lot of things come from America.
I'd say the one from England, considering that's the origin. It's what all the other English variants are the closest to. American English is probably the one that's deviated the most from it, but is the most widespread because a lot of things come from America.
"The differences between American and British are not due to Americans changing from a British standard. American is not corrupt British plus barbarisms. Rather, both American and British evolved in different ways from a common sixteenth-century ancestral standard. Present-day British is no closer to that earlier form than present-day American is. Indeed, in some ways present-day American is more conservative, that is, closer to the common original standard than is present-day British."
You know, that article was having a point about language being an ever adapting thing, up until the sweeping generalization.
"But a language or anything else that does not change is dead."
If you take a person, remove their brain and put in a new one, remove their skin and put on new skin, is it the same person anymore? Of course not, you've just killed the old person and made a new one.
Change is death. It's why all living things are trying to maintain homeostasis, the process of maintaining the same, otherwise they die.
If english changes too much then it's going to cease being english and start being something else. I'm not saying it's wrong, that's how all languages came about, but if the original language is no longer used and the new one build from the old is, then the old language is most certainly dead. That's what happened to old english and that's why it's dead. It changed too much.
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