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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!mizar.cc.umanitoba.ca!ens
  3. From: ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca ()
  4. Subject: Re: American English
  5. Message-ID: <BzpByH.D30@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
  6. Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: ccu.umanitoba.ca
  8. Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
  9. References: <1992Dec18.233553.1@indyvax.iupui.edu> <BzJpFu.AG5@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <BzMGnI.37u@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <BzMu7r.FHo@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
  10. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:39:52 GMT
  11. Lines: 19
  12.  
  13. (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
  14.  
  15. >Can't you see that I did it deliberately? I proclaimed that the American
  16. >language isn't English so that I would get people strongly affirming
  17. >the fact that they *do* speak English. 
  18.  
  19. And you needed a few hundred posts before you were satisfied? Or did the
  20. fact that not a single English poster backed you up finally get
  21. through to you.
  22.  
  23. >Well then, if you *do* speak
  24. >English then why do you defy standard English? (No....the argument
  25. >"there is no standard English, isn't good enough.")
  26.  
  27. It's good enough for the British, so it ought to be good enough
  28. for you.
  29.  
  30. Werner
  31.  
  32.