• Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 months ago

      That implies that eventually, everyone will move to American English.

      American English is more of a soft fork than “bleeding edge”

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        Honestly moving to american english would be a good thing for britain. I’ve seen even native mfs failing to understand each other’s pronunciation. British english has something like 18 vowel sounds but only 6 vowel characters. Multiple letters have the same sound and a single letter can have multiple sounds. That’s not what i call an alphabet. Even american english has lots of unnecessarily complexity, but it made a step in the right direction. Ideally, many more such steps should follow.