On YouTube, never seen this before but apparently it’s a thing

    • david@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      To be fair, a lot, but certainly not all of Americanisms are actually relics of the English spoken and written at the time of mass migration to Northern America. Language in many cases evolved more rapidly in Europe. In a related way, quite a bit of the ways in which Mexican Spanish differs from Spanish Spanish sounds very archaic to young Spanish ears, or so I’m told.

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        Americanisms are actually relics of the English spoken and written at the time of mass migration

        That was utter claptrap made up by journalists to sell a few papers and has been completely disproved

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      I remember seeing a web site where they had the British flag next to “English” and the American next to “English (Simplified)”