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[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
  • British English: LTS
  • American English: rolling release
[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

American English is more of a soft fork than "bleeding edge"

[–] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.