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I would in principle agree with you, however not about English, mainly because it is now a language of international discourse of any kind, and it thus no longer belongs to the local speakers.
It now has a role Latin had until just a few centuries ago, and extrapolating a bit into the future from that example, will remain quite stable while your dialect, American, Australian, Indian, Jamaican, will change until it becomes another language entirely, no longer mutually intelligible with the other dialects.
If you want to participate in the international dialog however, you will have to learn International, which is now English including the differentiation of the theiy'res, even if your native language is English. Your grand-grandchildren may have to learn English like an Italian in 1800 had to learn Latin if he wanted to join the international discourse.
It's super interesting to watch this process unfold right now!
Wagwan dickhead,
We already have different spellings in different countries. If we truly cared about the international part we would have a customized writing system just for that, which would probably remove the three theirs. We would also have a standard international spelling. Instead what happens is the American version gets used since they are the biggest and everyone has to deal with their version. The people who invented the fucking language get left behind. So there isn't really a reason not to fix it since English is diverging anyway.
If Americans fix it then it will just become the norm anyway, except in England because fuck America that's why. If it becomes the norm in England then nobody will care because it's England, and we aren't an empire anymore. Not that we would because there are far too many posh twats in England who get off on correcting people's grammar. Oi listen, maybe the road men could get this done, you feel me? As for what happens if Canada adopts it, ay, I wouldn't worry aboot that.
Apologies for the road man impression. Best I could do y'all.
All of ye might want to take note that not all UK people speak the same language. To say otherwise takes the pish. Anyway I best bob up the apple and pears and go beddy byes. Nice talking to you wee lad.
p.s. I tried to fit as many localisms into this as possible. How did I do?