[Ti] English & French word Counts [OT]

[Massimo Marino]

On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 02:04  AM, PowerBook G4 Titanium List 
wrote:

> Message-ID: <BB802A8C.8078%ursus at mac.com>
>
>> It is important to note, however, that "American English" is a
>> bastardised subset of the English language and Americans generally
>> have a much smaller vocabulary than their English forebears.
>>
>> Paul
>
> It is important to note the American English is spoken by more people 
> than
> British English. And Europeans that want to learn English show a strong
> preference for learning the American variety.
>
> So give us American bastards our due.
>
>

LOL, that must be due to the fact that British *pretend* not to 
understand when foreigners speak while Americans - being used to a much 
larger variety of accents and origins - usually have no trouble at all. 
Hence the poor foreigner bastard goes: "To hell with British, I'll 
speak American!"

Who knows, maybe it's because of the Empire: "Lady Hamilton, do you 
*really* understand what this poor soul is saying?!" - "Oh dear, not at 
all. They have such a terrible accent, do they?!"