On 8 Jul 2012, at 20:31, Jonathan Jones wrote: Would English be nearly as pervasive as it is if British, Australian, South African, and U.S. English speakers couldn't understand each other? Without otherwise detracting from your very good post, I take it you haven't seen any Rab C. Nesbitt rants, e.g., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k7VoFiagfs I'm English and speak what you might refer to as British English, and used to watch that show with the subtitles on, even though that's from the country next door and also falls under your classification of British English :-) kozmikreis
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