home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!convex!constellation!midway.ecn.uoknor.edu!mmmirash
- From: mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi)
- Subject: Re: American English
- Sender: usenet@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu (Usenet Administrator)
- Message-ID: <BzMu7r.FHo@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:21:19 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.233553.1@indyvax.iupui.edu> <BzJpFu.AG5@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <BzMGnI.37u@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Nntp-Posting-Host: midway.ecn.uoknor.edu
- Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
- Lines: 34
-
- In article <BzMGnI.37u@ccu.umanitoba.ca> ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
- >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.
- >
- >How does 'Linguistics According to Mirashi', resolve the following?
- >
- >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.
- >
- >On the other hand, Mirashi himself proclaims repeatedly that the American
- >language is not English, himself contradicting the normal British
- >usage of 'English'.
- >
- >What's a would-be disciple to do?
- >
- >Werner
-
- Can't you see that I did it deliberately? I proclaimed that the American
- language isn't English so that I would get people strongly affirming
- the fact that they *do* speak English. Well then, if you *do* speak
- English then why do you defy standard English? (No....the argument
- "there is no standard English, isn't good enough.")
-
- Mandar.
- --
- "Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die
- for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
- You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some
- day you'll join us, and the world will be as one." - John Lennon.
-