Talk:English
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Please remember to Sign your posts on talk pages RedWolf 21:51, Dec 23, 2003 (UTC)
I'm somewhat bemused by some of these distinctions: 'British English'? I can understand Irish English, Scottish English etc. Likewise 'American English' - beneath it is 'Canadian English', there was me thinking Canada was IN America.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have 'English' - as spoken by the residents of England, then pre-fix with the appropriate country name: Australian English, South African English, U.S.A. English etc.
True or false??
True or false: there is a good advantage of having this article as it is as opposed to having it be used for the language and having all the other links moved to English (disambiguation). 66.245.115.123 16:00, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To the user above YOU MISS THE POINT!
For English people, you put "English People", and for English languages, you put "English language", you don't call the French spoken in France "French French" or "Gallic French" or anything else,
all francophone dialects outside France have the prefix.
Same should obviously apply to English. You can have all the others under one category "English Dialects". American-English is a dialect of English; English is the language of England.
There is no such thing as "British English", it simply doesn't exist.
In fact, I'd like to complain about the use of the word "English" used to describe the language that most Wikipedia articles are available in. The language is actually "American English", and that's what it should be called.
The only language that can justifiable and correctly be called English is the language of the nation of England. It is frankly offensive for American English to be called English, and for English to be called "British English". There is no such thing as "British English". There is English English, (and as mentioned) Scots English, Hiberno-English etc... but there is no such thing as "British English", or even the absurd appellation of "English English". American English is, like the many others, a dialect of English. The use of the term "British English" disingenuously implies that the opposite is true: which is a lie.
It is apparently in the spirit of concepts such as Wikipedia (and Google as it goes) to provide information in real languages of the users, and in the case of Wikipedia, to aim to act as a resource of truthful and accurate information, as best it can.
It is misinformation to call American English, English, and to call English "British English", and I implore Wikipedia to make this amendment: on the language selection page and in the code, make "EN" mean only English, the Americans can have "AM-EN", that's the way it should be; it's disgrace that html will not accept tags in English like "<centre>" as it was invented by someone from England! Likewise, this page address whould perhaps read: http://AM-EN.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:English&action=edit Otherwise, someone should correct the spelling and grammar in order to make sure that it can truthfully be called English.
Call your language whatever you like, but don't call it English - that is theft of the truth.
For those who are interested visit SIL (http://www.sil.org) for some factual data about languages.
