min ([info]dreamlogic) wrote,
@ 2008-11-07 12:40:00
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Sometimes I wonder if people in other countries are learning English grammar from internet memes like lolcats.

I just got a piece of spam trying to get me to click on a link with this subject line: "Barack Obama can lost President's Chair".

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(Anonymous)
2008-11-12 11:09 am UTC (link)
oh and ps: english grammar from what era?

The centre of everything is the center. Sometimes the colour of colors is delightful.

Obvious examples, surely; and yet repeated throughout "english" time.

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[info]dreamsoft
2008-11-14 07:16 am UTC (link)
That's actually more nationalistic. Of course, one would have to then determine what differentiates eastern English from western.

The clear historical marker of things such as center/centre, color/colour, et al is the seperation of nation. Although certainly there was some buffer time as usage declined...

but ye olde English (Englishe sometimes...) is different from the more recent basis of western English, aka Americanization or however you wish to call it.

Obvious examples of different groupings of time and relevance to such.

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