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- From: wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk
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- Subject: Re: Sexist language
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.133127.10969@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 13:31:27 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.150052.10887@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <BzJMLp.84o@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <8040@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <BzMvK3.GD5@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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- In article <BzMvK3.GD5@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>, mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
- > Yes, there are local standards. But which standard should be used when
- > resolving an inter-standard conflict? Obviously, it is the English
- > English standard.
-
- Boring! "Obviously" is not good enough. We've rejected all your arguments so
- far: give us some more to knock down.
-
-
- > I am sorry that I can't relate to this example. I am not even sure what
- > race I belong to. In fact, it would be better if there were no races at
- > all. But if you are trying to draw an analogy between "which race is
- > superior" and "which standard is superior", you fail. This is because
- > while different races were born at the same time in different places,
- > English was born in England.
- Actually it was born in Northern France, Scandinavia and Germany, brought up in
- England and matured in Great Britain and the USA.
-
- > Hey! I wouldn't *kill* or *die* for linguistic purity. I hold no grudge
- > against someone else if he uses a different standard. But it irritates me
- > when he refuses to acknowledge the existence of a supreme standard.
-
- And it irritates the hell out of me when some pig-headed know-nothing continues
- to place some fictional "standard" English dialect on a pedestal and worship
- it. Idolatry, some would call it.
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