Joey Learning English

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we didn't fight the 100 years war just to have our language bastardised with French

No, sure, it was fought to put an English king of French descent on the French throne, a feat in which England eventually failed miserably, managing to lose all its continental possesions except Calais in the process :eek:.

And English is 30% French anyway

So I guess my point is simply..... who gives a damn about the numbers right now. Languages shift over long stretches of time like cultural glaciers.

That was the point in Sylph's comment. Languages shift when given enough geographical expanse and population.

Now I'm sure this recent trend that Artyboy has of bashing Americans for just about anything is all in good jest, but it portrays a more or less discriminative behavior that some other Europeans indulge in all too often in a more serious way.

When it comes to language I hear way too often the nasty kind of Spaniard that thinks we down here speak a monstruosity that should be named as the 8th capital sin.

Thing is, numbers ARE important. There are 121 million people in México alone, another 100 million between Colombia and Argentina and we are still leaving out many others. And that amount compares to...how many Spaniards?

So why the minority feels entitled to set the rules for everybody else?

What can Britain do to "teach" 300 millions living in the world's sole superpower?

What can tiny Portugal do against 200 million Brazilians

If there is any Spaniard, Brit, Frenchman, Portuguese etc, that thinks we need to be "taught" how to speak "properly", I dare them to come and try. Let's see how that goes