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- From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Subject: Re: An apology
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.070305.26332@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <BzMx61.HEq@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Dec29.053058.29564@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:03:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.053058.29564@Princeton.EDU> roger@astro.princeton.edu (Roger Lustig) writes:
- >In article <BzMx61.HEq@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
- >
- >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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- Oh Roger, come on. You know better than that. Mandar has given us
- three standards already in descending order of preference:
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- - The "common elements" of an English accent
- - The English spoken by the Queen
- - The English spoken by the BBC
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- If England were to disappear, you can bet he'd make up another.
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