Why I miss old clickies: a lament...

[Mad Russian]

There in lies the problem.

English is not the same as American. The American dialect is the most common form of English spoken in the world.

According to the 2006 US census there are roughly 300,000,000 Americans.

The core English language population is

England - 50,431,700

Scotland - 5,094,800

Wales - 2,958,600

Northern Ireland - 1,724,400

For a total of about 60,205,500.

As you can see the number of people speaking American is roughly five times more than that speaking core English.

Of course there are other countries around the world that speak dialects of English as well. Australia, Canada, India, South Africa. All of them no longer speaking the core English.

That means that, as Coil pointed out, POS has a difficult time making his points in English, when most of the rest of the English speaking world speaks American!!

The phrase, "You on crack mate?" is not a greeting such as, "how are you today?" but an insult of the highest order. Somewhat akin to being labeled a dole recipient I would think.....but then who would know? :whis:

Good Hunting.

MR