RE: Lighter Skin = Better?
July 12, 2013 at 4:12 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2013 at 4:14 pm by paulpablo.)
(July 12, 2013 at 4:06 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: To be fair: English is a polygot of tongues, which makes it somewhat mongrel and acceptable for wide usage, if you ask me. Also, the wide use of English is more due to America than England, I think, and England didn't hold on to us for very long.
And Latin and Greek are still the accepted languages of science descriptors and naming. It was only just recently that Botanics decided to NOT make lengthy Latin-based descriptions of plants.
I don't think language is a good indicator.
But it would probably indicate that a small island would have to be fairly powerful to have influenced directly the language of Australia, South Africa. Canada and America other countries probably also. The one's I'm not so sure about are Jamaica and New Zealand.
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