What is the language "British"?

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Mon Aug 28 18:42:05 UTC 2006


David Fletcher wrote:
> On Monday 28 August 2006 15:02, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> They are not the same in the context of language.  "English" is a
>> language while (whilst) "British-English" is regional.  In
>> "British-English" defense is written "defence".
> 
> I think you've got it the wrong way around. "Defence" is the correct spelling.  

Unfortunately the parent post contained non-UTF8 characters which do not 
render without the "irritated irony" regional font installed.

I must confess that while liking Americans I keep my three year old away 
(I can check the title because I literally hid the video in here) from 
cultural abominations like this

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205461/

Bottom 100: #76

''Quotes:
[Mr. Conductor and Junior are both out of gold dust]
Mr. C. Junior: Hey, it's a beautiful day. I mean, we're down, but we're 
not out.
Mr. Conductor: No, we're *out*, but we're not *down*.
(more)''

No thanks.

-Andy
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