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Question on English Language to British Members

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01-12-2010 2:53 PM 		Reply to: Message 2 by Straggler
01-08-2010 3:20 PM

Re: Brit Vs American - Written Vs Spoken
But I have wondered previously whether Americans (men especially) are less keen to invoke their full vocabulary than Brits for fear of sounding sort of "intellectualyl camp".
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We don't want to sound british.
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We americans do have poor grammar. I have often wondered if it has it's roots in our history as a people who were more rural and disconnected from "centers of higher learning".
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Perhaps Aussies could serve as a test of my theory. Is Aussie grammar worse than British grammar?
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