Has the Code Of Conduct changed? ...again?

[Graham Todd]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:48:11 +0800
"Goh Lip" <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:

> Heh heh heh, allow me a light-hearted whining...
> Being on this mailing list has made me a much slower reader of
> (english language) publications. I find I have to pause at every
> 'your' and 'you're' (and others as well) to see if they mean exactly
> what is written. (Huffington post, CNN, Cablegates <by diplomats>
> made similar mistakes too) Being a non-native english speaker, I
> wonder if this affects the natives too.  :)
[snipped]

Actually, CNN, Huffington Post, etc, that you name are all North
American, *not* English, but the rules pertaining to the North American
language are similar to (but not the same as) English (wot is spoke
in England).

It irritates me (and many other native English speakers in England) to
have the English language emasculated in this way.  If North Americans
want to call their language English, it should conform to the Queen's
English and the O.E.D. (Oxford English Dictionary).

And if I sound like Disgusted of Maidstone, I am just that!

-- 
Graham Todd