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- From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
- Subject: Re: An apology
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.053058.29564@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:30:58 GMT
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- In article <BzMx61.HEq@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
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- >My sincere apologies for misquoting John Lennon.
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- Great. Now imagine there's no countries, and then tell us what one
- would have to do to resolve "interdialect conflicts" in the absence
- of an automatic "superior" standard. After all, if there were no
- England, there would be no way of telling who spoke "superior"
- English.
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- Roger
-