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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!gtoal
  3. From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
  4. Subject: Re: American English
  5. Message-ID: <BzqtGI.64L@demon.co.uk>
  6. Sender: news@demon.co.uk
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: pizzabox.demon.co.uk
  8. Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
  9. References: <BzMGnI.37u@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <BzMu7r.FHo@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <BzpByH.D30@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
  10. Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:55:29 GMT
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  13. In article <BzpByH.D30@ccu.umanitoba.ca> ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca () writes:
  14. :(Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
  15. :
  16. :>Can't you see that I did it deliberately? I proclaimed that the American
  17. :>language isn't English so that I would get people strongly affirming
  18. :>the fact that they *do* speak English. 
  19. :
  20. :And you needed a few hundred posts before you were satisfied? Or did the
  21. :fact that not a single English poster backed you up finally get
  22. :through to you.
  23.  
  24. Reminds me of a certain Ly Hoang of 'Ly-ers Gambit' infamy.  You still
  25. around, Ly?  Still got it in for me? ;-)
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