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- From: ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca ()
- Subject: Re: American English
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- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:53:10 GMT
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- >>America won't win on this count. We have a number of native languages
- >>around here. I say that "native" doesn't count anyway. If you speak
- >>and I (or an Englishperson, to appease Mandar the Great) can
- >>understand you, then you're an English speaker. Cool, you count.
- >>Don't see any value added in requiring the speakers to have used
- >>the language from birth.
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- In countries where English is a second language, and not used in
- ordinary conversation, they simply accept the usage prescription from
- native English countries. English evolves mainly among native speakers,
- or at least among those that use it by default.
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- Werner
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