Re: Not on your linguistic Nellie

[pwillis@ozemail.com.au (Paul Willis)]

>
>Fine, just don't call it English - be honest and call it American (for
>dummies?).  You lot have already had a good go at 'simplifying' the language
>- witness the perrenial writing of palaeontology as paleontology, and the
>absurd 'downsizing' of perfectly simple words like colour, harbour, etc. to
>(I'll just pause to let the fit on vomiting pass) COLOR (yuk!).  Some of us
>like a language with 'karaktur'. If you want a language full of double
>consonants then learn Gaelic.
>
>Ta ta,
>
>Colin "keep the colonials out of all the important descisions" McHenry

That is a bit rich coming from a Pom living in Australia.

Cheers, Paul

pwillis@ozemail.com.au