Tandy Bowen doesn't have to pick between (cloakndagger) wrote in repose,
the standardization of the english language had to take hundreds of dialects into account. american english is remarkably similar to english as it was spoken at the time of the pilgrims. it's closer than present-day english.
you have to go the mile to eat your food, instead of your food consuming other-food's byproducts or being deconstructed, dechlorinated and assembled into appropriate patty/nugget format &c
i think this would constitute harassment in some countries. but this is all material. or immaterial, as it goes. the line was good.