On Oct 2, 10:05 pm, help bot wrote:
On Oct 2, 6:49 am, "Chess One" wrote:

notes: 'Muricanis not a universal language, English is, and because it takes
words from other languages to incorporate them. Now, America has invented
many things, but English invented the computer medium where you now read
this, and the English invented English.

Languages are not "invented" like an electric light bulb,
they are developed or derived and they evolve from earlier
languages.

IMO, it is silly to credit any people for the development
of their native language; this is like crediting cows for
inventing mooing; like crediting birds for having invented
the chirp; like crediting lions for the roar, fish for swimming,
Damiano for 2. ...f6. Here's the litmus test: it is said that
there are more people in China who speak English than in
the USA -- so then, what dialect do all these Chinese
speak: British, Australian, American, or (so solly), their
very own?



When I was a very young bot, we had an old (even then)
dictionary of titanic proportions which showed in the front
cover how English was derived from other languages, most
notably perhaps, Germanic languages. Example: our days
of the week are named for Norse gods like Tiu, Woden, Thor,
and Frigga (that's half female, half male, amazingly). Of
course, none of that fits in nicely with IM Innes and his need
to grab the credit for any and everything for his homeland
(not Vermont! His imaginary homeland, G.B. or Ireland,
depending on whim).

You didn't tell us where the others days came from. I think some are
of Celtic origin, yes?

At any rate, the idea was to talk about something (anything,
really) other than the yet-another-stupid-blunder by IM Innes
in the realm of language, which he pretends to know all about.
So you can see, we have succeeded. Red herrings work, and
we Americans know this because *we* perfected them.

-- help bot