# Why Are Americans Ruining "our" language? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [November 3, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-americans-ruining-our-language/91326 "2001-11-03T17:38:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![royjwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@royjwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/royjwood)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-americans-ruining-our-language/91326/1 "2001-11-03T17:38:54Z")
First of all, it is not “your” language. Nuff Said!!! Secondly, Whereas y’all snotty poms have destroyed such a lovely language as English, it is the Americans who perfected it. Further, had it not been for the fact that we speak the more refined English, do you think that anyone would have chosen “your” language as the International Language. I do not think so. Therefore, we not only perfected it, but we also propelled it into the international limelight. Thank you and God Bless America! ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-americans-ruining-our-language/91326/2 "2001-11-03T19:07:20Z")
Er … should this be _here_, or maybe posted to the Pit? There’s not much that can be said here, I’d have thought, to such a poster with a bee, apparently, in the bonnet. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-americans-ruining-our-language/91326/3 "2001-11-03T22:40:46Z")
I’m guessing that he meant to post this in the [Why are the Americans ruining our language?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=94914) thread in Great Debates. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-americans-ruining-our-language/91326/4 "2001-11-04T00:06:35Z")
Ah. Seemed a bit heavy for here. Thanks, **DDG**. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-americans-ruining-our-language/91326/5 "2001-11-04T07:05:43Z")
This again? Jeez. This topic still doesn’t belong in this forum, so I’m closing this thread. bibliophage moderator GQ