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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: American English
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 10:54:43 GMT
- References: <12034@scott.ed.ac.uk> <7940@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <BzAG2r.5qL@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <BzAGFo.5y8@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Dec16.104350.10831@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Dec16.104350.10831@vax.oxford.ac.uk> wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- <In article <BzAGFo.5y8@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>, mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
- <> Amazing how the very Americans who shouted down the program/me
- <> distinction, applaud the freshman/first-year distinction!
- <That, my dear Mandar, is because `freshman' excludes half the freshers
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- The hell it does. Many American female first-year undergraduate students
- have no problem referring to themselves as "freshmen".
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- <whereas `first-year' excludes no-one.
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- No. Not even the first year postgraduates. They are not freshers, are they?
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- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu) Gospel)
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