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

[Richard Owlett]

Graham Todd wrote:
> 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!
>

Ease up, even G. B. Shaw admitted we spoke the same language. 
Though he did comment that we "were two people separated by a 
common language." ;)