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[HairOfTheDog]

I didn't get the "language on loan" reference/concept either.

Is Portuguese on loan to Brazil? Is Spanish on loan to Mexico?

In a way, yes it is. I embrace linguistic diversity, but don't find myself being as generously welcoming when my English gets corrected into American English, and when I use software where the language option is American and there is no British English option - yeah, that does piss me off.

Are there still software programs which don't have both language setting options? That surprises me.

The interesting point about Spanish is that its most purest form is actually in Columbia and Mexico and not Spain.

It is indeed an interesting opinion; one with which I'm almost certain the people of the Castile region in Spain and linguistic scholars would disagree.

When I worked in translation and localization, Castilian Spanish was universally considered the root of the modern Spanish language, which would make it the “most purest” by default. I don’t think the history of language has since been re-written. For me, "language purity" is meaningless though. In my opinion, dialects (like the many between and within Spain and Colombia and Mexico...) will naturally develop due to geographic and cultural differences. Efficiency in communication is where it's really at, as far as I'm concerned.

I assume that you’re British by the implication of the “on loan” statement. But, I didn’t realize that the definition of “loan” differs between British English and American English. In American English, a loan is something that will be returned after temporary use, which of course doesn’t apply to the subject of language in any context. I was also unaware that “Colombia” was spelled differently in British English. Of course, I’m assuming that your post was in reference to Spanish spoken in the South American country, rather than Spanish spoken in the Columbia district of the US.

I’m not a spelling or grammar Nazi, Paulistano, and I make plenty of linguistic mistakes. I’m just having fun with you since you so boldly implied ownership of the English language.