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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: An apology
- Message-ID: <12222@kesson.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 14:18:48 GMT
- References: <BzMx61.HEq@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Dec29.053058.29564@Princeton.EDU>
- Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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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:
- >>My sincere apologies for misquoting John Lennon.
- >
- >Great. Now imagine there's no countries,
-
- I just tried to imagine this, and failed. J Lennon says it isn't hard
- to do, but for me it suddenly turned out to be impossible. Did he mean
- the easier task of imagining there's no states?
-
- >After all, if there were no England, there would be no way of telling
- >who spoke "superior" English.
-
- Of course there would. The superior version of English would be the
- English spoken in SE Scotland, near the Scottish Channel, also known
- as La Manche.
-
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- `D'ye mind tellin me whit the two o ye are gaun oan aboot?' (The Glasgow
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu) Gospel)
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