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Is British English Superior to Ours?

If you had to record a sample language for aliens to listen to, which would you choose? This was already done for the voyager spacecraft, which had short messages recorded in 55 languages. How could they chose which type of English to use for the English recording? There are lots of different types of the English Language, and the biggest two are American and British. In the next decades, one of these types will win over the other, and American English already has an advantage. Great Britain spread English around the world when it was an Empire, but American culture makes American English more popular around the world today.

American English is more popular but British people think their English is the best and real type. The British have great works of English like the King James Bible, Shakespeare and great poets but Americans have always used English how they wanted. The British think this hurts the language. In the end, the future of English will be up to people who speak English as a second language. Soon, there will be more people who speak English as a second language than a first language. These people don’t care what system is used they only want simple and easy English. When foreigners speak English to each other and no one corrects mistakes, this becomes the new way of speaking English.

The English used on the voyager spacecraft was American.

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