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Re: Why the C programming language book was never updated past C89?

From	David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Why the C programming language book was never updated past C89?
Date	2015-02-06 16:47 +0100
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On 06/02/15 14:45, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 06/02/15 13:31, James Kuyper wrote:
>> On 02/05/2015 06:15 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
>>> Lew Pitcher wrote:
>>>> On Thursday February 5 2015 16:43, in comp.lang.c, "Bartc"
>>>> <bc@freeuk.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> But never mind how it came about; English doesn't use phonetic
>>>>> spelling,
>>>>> and in the UK, it's spelt 'colour'.
>>>>
>>>> In Canada as well.
>>>
>>> It's a shame people keep using the terms US English and British English.
>>>
>>> It's better to say US English and everyone else's English :)
>>
>> Why? While a solid majority of native speakers of English are from the
>> US(58.5%),
> 
> Native English speakers are born in England. That's what "native" means.
> 

No, "native speaker" means your home country has that language as its
official language.  The whole of the UK has English as its official
language (I doubt if the term "British English" is used in either
English or Scottish law).  So everyone in the UK who is brought up with
English, is a native (British) English speaker.

As a Scott, I am a native English speaker (using the British English
variant), but I was not born in England, nor am I English.

The USA has English as its official language too (again, I doubt if it
makes the distinction of "US English") - Americans are native English
speakers too.

It's just that they can't spell properly :-)

(That last line was a joke, in case anyone missed the smiley.)

>> and those from the UK form the second largest group (15.8%),
> 
> I think you'll find that those born in England form the /only/ group of
> /native/ speakers of English, so that'll be 100%.
> 
>> those two (groups of) dialects are far from being the only ones in
>> widespread use. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world>
> 
> FCVO "English".
>

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Re: Why the C programming language book was never updated past C89? wpihughes@gmail.com - 2015-02-06 07:31 -0800
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