Re: [ruby-gnome2-devel-en] What is the current status?

[Nikolai W. <no...@bi...>]

On 12/1/06, Mario Steele <eu...@tr...> wrote:

>  5.) American isn't even a language per say, it doesn't conform to the
> English dialect as it was truely meant to be spoken in England.  It is, in
> all terms of the word, slang.

Gaah!  And you just keep on doing it!  American English is in every
respect as much a language as English English.  The two languages have
grown from the same English used during the colonization of America.
One might consider American English a /dialect/ of English English,
but considering the amount of time they've been separate and the
amount of change incurred on both languages it's reasonable to
describe them as two separate languages with the same origins.

You can find more information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_English

  nikolai