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On 02/03/2015 15:32, alister wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:19:45 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>
>> alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com>:
>>
>>> or as another analogy why don't you (Marco) try telling a Barber in
>>> Seville that he should be speaking Latin Spanish not that strange
>>> variation he uses?
>>
>> If the barber conference language were Latin, and some Spaniard insisted
>> on speaking Western Andalusian, I sure would consider that obnoxious.
>>
>> Similarly, I've heard some Finnish representatives in the Nordic Council
>> complain how the Danish insist on speaking Danish. The official language
>> there is Swedish.
>>
>>> I suspect the reaction you get will be far more severe than the one you
>>> are getting from we English (& Brits)
>>
>> I don't understand your reaction. The rest of us are willing to walk a
>> mile (say, Finnish -----> American English) and you are up in arms about
>> having to shift a foot (say, Scouse -> American English).
>>
>>
>> Marko
>
> Because the language is English not American.
> the Standard for English is by very definition UK English
> English is spoken badly enough as it is without deliberately speaking it
> worse!
>
>
> As I said earlier tell a Spaniard they need to learn Latin Spanish
> because traditional Spanish is not standard & see how far you get.
> if they are laid back about it try the same thing with he French
>
>

This http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarian_Spanish is interesting.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence