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if slang and dialects were all that was needed to distinguish one language from the other then nobody in england speaks english, we have such a vast difference in pronounciations, slang words, and grammar across our country (there are even places that call trousers pamnts which i thought was an american term). Americans spell a couple of words differently but they are speaking english, for a language to be truly different it must stem from another root or have a significantly different grammer construct (lots of french, norse and germaenic words in english but it's still english).
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