[Gllug] Re:SCO's Linux fight

[Branden Faulls]

Alistair Mann wrote:

> For instance, how many people object to the Americanism 'Fall' when we call it 
> 'Autumn'? Did those same people know that Shakespeare called it Fall, and 
> thus so did the English, long before the Americans? In this, and many other 
> examples, American English is actually closer to the English of old than is 
> British English.

There are rural areas of the Virginias and the Carolinas in the States, 
where the population has been suitably detached from the rest of the 
world for long enough that the accent and certain language constructions 
persist from the seventeenth century.  Perhaps John Woo should have 
remade Romeo and Juliet with a hillbilly named Roscoe and his cousin, 
just to preserve the flavour of Shakespearean language.

Forgive my bad English, I'm American, so English is my second language.

Branden






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