WANTED: Grammar Expert

[L]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Laura wrote:
> Oh, come on.  That is patently unfair.  All the Brits I know would
> launch into a violent rant if an American were to complain about 
> *their* slang and/or language differences.  Have a little 
> respect.  Trust me, a British student coming to an American school 
> and asking for a "rubber" would get some giggles as well.  We've 
> lived on different continents for a few centuries now.  *I* find 
> it rather impressive that we haven't got a lot *more* in the way 
> of language discrepancies.

I don't. It's not as if we're North/South Korea, whose dialects have 
changed so dramatically in the years that they've been split that 
one often needs a translator if there are (non-official) 
communications between the two. It's due to the integration of the 
two, culturally (I'm certain there still exists a high number of 
Anglophiles in the US), as well the mere trade of the written word 
(and with the modern expanse of communication being what it is...). 
Perhaps if the US were staunch anti-British for a hundred years or 
so and worked to keep anything and everything British outside its 
borders (which, of course, they would also close to those heathens 
at their north, the Canadians)... 

> Laura (who tried to go to physics class this morning an entire 
> *hour* early)

Goodness, and it's not even daylight saving's. :) (Not that I can 
say anything -- I open the bakery on Sunday mornings and have 
managed to either arrive early or late on every single one of those 
days simply because I'm not aware of it. I mean, really, it is 
rather pointless, isn't it?) 


L, who, while playing with her pet bird, also managed to destroy a
(nother) tea kettle this morning due to her obliviousness