xtc wrote:Of course the USA would come out as the modal group. Look at the barbaric language and assumed cultural norms in most of the posts!!
Xavier Tarquin Colmondley (Prof.)
LOL -- (you knew i wouldn't let that go by, didn't you?)
Absent the Spanish and in LA the French, we learned and improved on those aspects gleaned from the "Mother Country." English Common Law forms the basis on the US legal system in 49 of the States (LA grew from the Napoleonic Code). Mature English, unlike well preserved English (kinda like cabbage vs sauerkraut) has been the hallmark of development in the US for 300 or so years. In the US our cars are not dressed like women of the last century: "Secure the bonnet and latch the boot", for hood and trunk.
Becrying the insult to the tongue fostered by our youth however goes without dispute. Alas, it is a lament echoed down the corridors of time since the landing at Plymouth.
Alas, the fault, if any, lies not in the modal language but in its verbal representatives whose efforts at self improvement hallmark their fondness for TUGS. If however, we should give in to their application for linguistic punishment and tie and gag them until they improve, our only litmus would be in their articulation development of MMPFF or the like.
What to do, what to do.....?