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Originally Posted by baggytrousers
English is the language that started in England and adopted by many other countries like America.
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Wrong.
American is a development of a language originally known as Anglo-Saxon, later known as
Anglisc or
Englisc among other names. Its origins in Northern Germany saw it develop into 2 distinct varieties which separated somewhat into
English and
Scottis (or
Scots).
Scots is, in fact a far more accurate version of the original language and is thus a worthier tongue than the corrupted version spoken 'Dahn Saff'.
It has since split again into
American, Australian and Kiwish (although many linguists prefer to see the latter as a sub-special dialect of Australian). 'Sedifrikin' is not considered as more than a dialect of English, however.
The consideration of American as a language is beyond all doubt, in much the same way as Breton v Cornish, Czech v Slovak, Irish Gaelic v Scottish Gaelic, Danish v Norwegian to name but a few.
Mutual intelligibility is no measure of languagehood as can be seen among the Romance languages. One could never argue that Italian is a dialect of Spanish.
That's just plain stupid.