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- From: mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi)
- Subject: Re: American English
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:44:59 GMT
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- In article <BzpByH.D30@ccu.umanitoba.ca> ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca () writes:
- >(Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
- >
- >
- >>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.")
- >
- >It's good enough for the British, so it ought to be good enough
- >for you.
- >
- It isn't. Prove to me that most Englishmen find American English to
- be as good as English English.
-
- >Werner
- >
-
- Mandar.
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