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Wish to settle down, which country to choose - Poland or Russia? [88]
Again Mafketis and jon, I roundly concur, indeed thoroughly accept, the fact
that there is not ONE "English" standard! My point is, has been, and always
will be that whatever the standard, it nonetheless should remain a consistently high
one.
Who would have thought when I was in school that the English language, pride
of so many countries which speak her as their authentically native tongue, would
somehow become the rubbish bin of language, the pit into which all the filth spewed
forth by the lazy and ignorant?
There's British English, American English, Canadian English, and "Austrailish".
Yet all four strive to maintain a commensurately engaging level of
usage.
Compare US-American today with fifty or more years ago. Even within my brief
lifetime of fifty-something, the language has been experiencing a sort of schlerosis,
an Alzheimer's, before our very ears. Basic vocabulary such as "trestle", "siblings",
"to fare" and so forth has practically disappeared from daily speech and the only
way Millenials would ever recognize them, would be if they had unusally older parents.
@Bless you, Atch! From your click to his eyes.