>>> 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?!" When I visited Britain, it took me a matter of days before my concrete Bob Wills Texas accent changed into John Lennon, and I had no say in the matter, UK english does seem natural to acquire, so go figure. Another example, you don't hear a UK gal chipping off a "Like, oh my god he's sooo tubular!" even if she's been in LA for 10 years. What about the Rot (pronounced root) language? This web site (G.O.D. Bros Travelling Circus) won Spiders Web Site of the Week in 1995, back when the web was really the web. It predates France, Texican, and can be traced back to the deepest jungles of Africa. It is the root of all sound and communication, as it relates to human vocal chords. ---- The architecture of Alphernas Beten , the Sound System, the ring of 23 sounds from which the sound logic forming the core of Vainamoinen mythology emanates. Please note that Rot is pronounced "root", and that it means "root", in Rot language. According to Alphernas Beten , this Ring and ring-ing of sounds is the root not only of all present human communication, but of much more as well, as we shall soon begin to see, and to hear. The root - Rot - syllable circ means (along with many related meanings which we'll come to in a moment) ring. Us means love. Thus circus means the love of the ring. L means law; logic - the natural law, the natural logic displayed throughout the on-going creation of the universe . Hence circ L means ring law, ring logic - the natural law and logic of the ring. And ring-ing. Thus it is that a Circus would play in a Circl L , a circle - the love of the ring would play within the natural law, the natural logic of the ring. As presented within this context, the Sound Logic of Original Circus rings true. Given the understanding that Rot is a spoken language which has never been, and never can become, a written language, let us begin to sketch this fluid, impeccably logical, ever- moving and continually circulating architectural system. For the moment skipping over the first sound in the ring, i, we come to the next sound, the clear vowel A(say "ah"). Let us say that the Ais, metaphorically, a web site. We click on it, we're here, and immediately learn that the name for the sound Ais Aser, and that Aser are the people living inside Odenma, aringland 250 km in diameter surrounding Hel (means clear; home; complete), today Helsinki, the exact center of the old, the orignal, North Pole, before Ice Time, before the axis of the earth shifted, declinated (it is now off by 30 degrees, providing reasons for seasons) beginning a period called, in Rot, Alt Land Is - "all land ice", the entire bal, or globe, having previously been tropical. Here at A's web site, however, in order to thoroughly understand the full meaning of A, (surely we have been given the name Aser for some reasons), we must consider each sound in A - S - E - R . Each of these is also a web site which we will need to visit to gather more information about, and increase our undersanding of, the meaning(s) of the sound A. So we're looking at this: A- we're already here S- a combination of the sound Eand S, each one requiring a web site, i.e. two web sites to explore and consider E- a single web site, ie .a clear vowel sound R- two web sites; the sound Ris actually a combination of the sounds Eand R; two more sites to visit in our search to understand A, Aser We click next on the Spart of the combination sound Sand we find its name, Solen. So now we have a new set of sites to visit to understand this Asound and its burgeoing associations: S- a combination of Eand S, two web sites (combination sounds) O- a clear vowel, one web site L- a combination of Eand L; two web sites E- clear vowel, one web site N- a combination of Eand N, two web sites While the the simple meanings of Solen are "sun" and "smiling mouth", its underlying meanings are growing. Are you getting it? Just as sacred architecture often begins with a seed thought or image, a premise, of which an entire structure is but the extrapolation, our path to the understanding of just one sound in this ring is over time - in kela - expressing itself in hundreds of permutations and thousands of interconnections, with forks, branches, internal consistencies, and processes unimagined when first contemplating a simple ring of 23 linked sounds. We now need to kela - to contemplate - each sound, visit each web site, in the name Solen for the sound Sin Aser, the name for the sound A, gathering and creating an ever-growing net of meanings and associations as we proceed. We continue onward in this process, this search and research, as our mind accumulates a growing understanding of the associations presented so far. For another example, we come to the combination sound Nin Solen , click on it, and find the name for N-Nordsiernan . How many web sites must we now visit to learn the full meaning of N, whose most simple associations are knowledge and North Star, i.e. Pole Star, but whose name has 17 sounds or web sites, encompassing 3/4 of the ring and each having a name; each directing us to further web sites - sounds - in the net, each one of which is holding more information and associations . . . all this to find out about A, Aser ! One's travel log, one's travelling circus, one's circulation of the ring of sounds (web sites) is one's kela, the logic-patterning described by the flow of associations as the ring, the ring-ing, the kela, of these sounds, these web sites, shows the brain the natural law and laws of every thing that can be given a name, everything humanly perceivable and distinguishable from everything else. In Rot, the root human language, which speaks for itself, Sa means to receive; Ga means to give. Sa - ga, saga , means receiving/giving. A process. An interactive process. And while speaking of G.O.D., please remember that in Rot, (pronounced "root), God (pronounced "goood") means good. The sound names for G.O.D. are Grund Odens Dag ; the Ground of Oden 's Day; also the Day of Oden 's Ground; also the Day in which Oden is Grounded. The Ground in which Oden 's Day can shine. (The palindromatic is very often correct in Rot). Most Adept Barkers, you'll find, are careful to give the G.O.D. in G.O.D. Bros. Travel Ling Circus its "correct", certainly original, pronounciation. COPYRIGHT 1995 G.O.D. Bros Travelling Circus, Inc.