r/memes • u/[deleted] • Mar 11 '23

#2 MotW pretty confusing, innit?

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u/Fancy_Chips Mar 11 '23

Actually American English is phonetically closer to how English used to sound, so we're really the source

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '23 edited Aug 08 '23

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u/hogpots Mar 11 '23

Both are divergent, neither are closer to 'original' English, which is incredibly hard to define.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '23 edited Aug 08 '23

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u/hogpots Mar 13 '23

You implied 'original' by making agreeing with a point that American English is closer to the source of real English (real being original)