American English has embraced innovation over purity, consuming everything in its reach on its way to becoming the global vernacular
After winning their independence, Americans seized the old language and turned it into something dynamic and new—an expression of the country’s diversityTo create a nation, you need a language. Other ingredients are also required: a territory, a flag, a government, a currency, a postal service and so on. But language is the crux. Without it, you have no conversation.
Of course, new languages don’t emerge from a vacuum. They evolve slowly from other languages, acquiring their own character only after a long process of decantation. George Bernard Shaw once purportedly said that England and the U.S. are separated by a common language. That separation is what American English has achieved, not without pain, over a period spanning more than four centuries.
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