| > * “English” refers to a single language. > > * “US English” is good enough for all English speakers. > > * US English is well defined and refers to a single language. There are certainly pretty extreme differences in spoken language, especially in the UK with its vast collection of local dialects, or in places where English is on a continuum with a creole language (Jamaica, Liberia, etc.) But I would have thought that any regional variety of written English could be readily easily understood by most functionally literate speakers. I can browse English-language newspapers from the US, UK, Jamaica, India, and the Philippines and understand everything or nearly so. Is my assumption incorrect? Anyway, I'd add another falsehood to your list: * People prefer to consume content in their native language. I think most bilingual people would prefer to read original content in their non-dominant language than a (poorly) translated version in their native language. |