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Re:Almost half of Californians speak a non-English language ... by OnlyMortal on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:04AM (#38405290)
Correct. It’s the defacto.

Indeed, there’s even no official version of English unlike, say, French and Dutch.

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Re:Almost half of Californians speak a non-English language ... by jjgreen on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:21AM (#38405503)
That there is no Académie anglaise is a fact which surprises and appalls the French.
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Re:Almost half of Californians speak a non-English language ... by switch007 on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:26AM (#38405560)
The degree to which we do not care what the French think about our lack of an official body overseeing and dictating the language of English can not be accurately described in words. We would have to invent a new unit of measurement to measure it. :)
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Re:Almost half of Californians speak a non-English language ... by jjgreen on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:41AM (#38405733)
On Dave's scale, probably a "Shart" https://blogography.com/archives/2019/04/the-dave-scale-of-g...
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Re:Almost half of Californians speak a non-English language ... by switch007 on Friday November 24, 2023 @12:46PM (#38406356)
By that scale it’s “no shits given”
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Re:Almost half of Californians speak a non-English language ... by HKH2 on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:44AM (#38405770)
Prescriptivism only gets you so far.
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