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Originally Posted by dogsbody70
goodness me how complicated you make it.
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Sorry, I can be like that sometimes, though it isn't deliberate.
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I would consider some american spellings as not being true English.
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"Them's fightin' words!"
Yeah, I know, it's an old issue. I like to think of those American spellings as English's way of reshaping borrowed French words into a more Anglo-Saxon (i.e. pre-Norman Conquest) spelling style, but that's just my personal fancy.
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if someone is learning American English-- then I guess one has to accept that, but every day speaking of English is not the same as this pedantic teaching of the language.
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Agreed. Again, I can be rather pedantic at times, and my "writing voice" tends to be much more exacting and formal than my "speaking voice". But I do believe that writing requires somewhat higher standards, and the incorrect sentence immediately sounded wrong to me. The complicated part was explaining why that is.