Nov-16-2011, 12:55 AM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Nov-16-2011, 12:56 AM (UTC) by Farseer.)
(Nov-16-2011, 12:20 AM (UTC))thul Wrote: American English word: Armor
British English word: Armour.
See the error those British have? Its just not natural. Goes against nature, it does.
I fear I am responsible for taking yet another thread down the winding path of 'off-topicness' but I'm not splitting anything lest I do further damage!
So, forging (as opposed to Forging ) on ahead, let me cast a slightly different slant on this point that you beings have made...what exactly is 'natural' here though? How it rolls off the tongue, the easier spelling choice...?
Considering the English language was founded by the British (though certainly it included borrowings and origins from many other sources), and the spread of the English language is due primarily to the spread of the British Empire , would not British English be 'purer' than American? While it may be complex, it is still the original source from where the American off-shoot was derived?
It would be akin to my husband and I teaching our children how to speak our language (which we created) and then, after they decide that they're going to go off and do a few things their own way, others point out that it's our children who have our language correct....and we are in error.
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."