Spirultima said:
Hehe, i'm not so easily beat.
No your right there was no regulating body, BUT the language was counted as part of the Empire and so therefore had to be consulted, the leader of the British Empire, i.e. the king/the queen, which paperwork, or even verbal contract, which was NOT filed and therefore still "American" English stays a unofficial splinter language.
Boom, headshot.
Oookay... assuming, for a second, I believe that the language is somehow controlled by the Empire when the consensus is no body controls it at all, there's still that little matter of we haven't listened to the Empire in over two centuries. Even if the king or queen did exert power over our mutual language (which they don't), America wouldn't care. As such, even if said regulatory body did exist, us not caring, English would continue to evolve on both sides of the Atlantic until we can't understand each other at all, in much the same way English evolved from German. Oh yes, if you had clicked my link (which I doubt), you would have noticed that. You say American English is an unofficial splinter language from the proper British (in spite of the point I have already made several times). Fine. I contend English as a whole is an unofficial splinter of German, and I highly doubt either one of us filed the correct paperwork to change German into the bastardized mess English is today. First one to fill out the forms with Chancellor Merkel gets control of the language in perpetuity.
Ready?