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Absolutely not. If it was just an accent, I'd like back all those times my father couldn't help with my Spanish homework.

It’s like how Portuguese is just a Spanish with a heavy accent. And Italian is just accented Latin.

There are recognizable words but the meanings are entirely different - English between America and Australia used to be this way (we since have crushed Australia with Hollywood so hard that it’s now closer enough).

Neither of those are true.

They have similar roots, but dismissing entire languages and cultures in this way is super disrespectful

I should have added the required /sarcasm tag, apparently.

Accent and dialect, dialect and language, all dependvon having their own grammar and particular history.

Wow, worst most ignorant comment I've seen on HN in a long time here

if you read the article it clearly isn't just the accent