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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:28:30 GMT
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- In <BzJpFu.AG5@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@banshee.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
- > To stir up a little dust, I proclaimed a while ago that the
- >language the Americans use, isn't English and shouldn't be termed so.
- >Immediately, indignant Americans pointed out that I was mistaken and
- >how the language they speak is indeed English.
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- How does 'Linguistics According to Mirashi', resolve the following?
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- On the one hand, The Mirashi Order regards the British as the final
- authorities on English. The British (common man and linguist alike)
- call the (predominant) American language, English. So bowing to their
- superiority, a Mirashist must also call it English.
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- On the other hand, Mirashi himself proclaims repeatedly that the American
- language is not English, himself contradicting the normal British
- usage of 'English'.
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- What's a would-be disciple to do?
-
- Werner
-