I did not mean “British” English, just English. And true, the hegemony that the US had and still has on this planet, commerce, popular culture, sheer weight and all that implies, forced everyone else to learn English. The internet is the prime example,
Americans are smug in that we do not need to learn other languages, because everyone else speaks English. I am not sure I am proud of that… Craig > On Nov 20, 2023, at 12:59 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > British English was never the *lingua franca*. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode