| highwaystar101 said: We invented the damn language and if we English want to put "U" in our words and use "S" instead of "Z" then we damn well should be allowed to. |
Languages are not invented. They are evolved. Actually it is very similar to the evolution of life. Languages share a common ancestor that may or may not be extinct and differentiate due to regions. Both dialects are just as valid as the other, and if left alone they will form new languages. Also American Standard English is much closer to the Early Modern English than British Standard English is. The main difference that American and British english have is the pronounciation of the consanant "R" and the stress on constanants vs vowels. BSE(British Standard English) focuses more on stressing vowels while ASE focuses more on stressing constanants. American English also 'fully" prounounces the constantants "R" when it isn't combined with another constanant and "H" at the beginning of a word. Both of these features, the major difference between BSE and AME, are common in Early Modern English. Basically shakespare would have pronounced the "R" in his name despite being English. It is a general rule actually, that the farther you leave from the source of the language the slower it changes. The same thing could be explained for American Spanish vs European Spanish, and Canadian, African French vs European French. As for spelling, it wasn't until the 1500s until spelling started to have standard rules. Because of this, I discount any official spelling differences in dialects as being "correct". So the old "English invented the language" isn't only wrong, but actually much farther from the truth. There is a point in time actually where almost every european language was the same. This language was called Indo European, and more commonly reffered to as "Aryan."
