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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!oxuniv!wilcox
  2. From: wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: Re: American English
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.132703.10968@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 23 Dec 92 13:27:03 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec18.233553.1@indyvax.iupui.edu> <BzJpFu.AG5@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <BzMGnI.37u@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <BzMu7r.FHo@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
  8. Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620
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  11. In article <BzMu7r.FHo@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>, mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
  12. > Can't you see that I did it deliberately? I proclaimed that the American
  13. > language isn't English so that I would get people strongly affirming
  14. > the fact that they *do* speak English. Well then, if you *do* speak
  15. > English then why do you defy standard English? (No....the argument
  16. > "there is no standard English, isn't good enough.")
  17. Unfortunately for would-be Mandarians it is not an argument but a fact. The
  18. gospel according to the blessed Mandar falls because it does not acknowledge
  19. simple truths. 
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  23. Stephen Wilcox             |   For Sale: Posts in British Government. Suit
  24. wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk    |   outgoing American. Highest bids accepted.
  25.