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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Frosh (was Re: Sexist language (was...
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.035220.15482@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:52:20 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- References: <BzJpFu.AG5@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Dec22.214750.1@indyvax.iupui.edu> <BzqsMF.Jnv@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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- From the keyboard of mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi):
- :Because it is spoken in England - the mother country of English.
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- Countries don't matter whit bit linguistically, O Mandar. Speakers do.
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- :Superior at the moment..yes. But not superior when comparing dialects.
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- :I am not against changes or local dialects. All I am asking for is your
- :recognition of English English as the global standard for English.
-
- You've asked enough. We aren't buying it. Haven't you figured
- that out yet? And you aren't even a real Englishman. Take off.
-
- Enough. After seeing 7 new articles in this newsgroup, all by
- Mandar and all cut from the same rotten cloth, that I can see no
- other solution than to relegate him to that place only 3 or 4 others
- have merited in 10 years of reading USENET: my kill file.
-
- --tom
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- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
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- Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. -- Dan Quayle
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