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  10. Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:25:38 -0600
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  12. From:         LHAMPLYONS@CUDNVR.DENVER.COLORADO.EDU
  13. Subject:      Re: (Fwd: *C&CD*) RE: RE: But what can we isolated YouEssers do?
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  17. Ron
  18. In a sense yes, languages and dialects are different "threads."  And yet both
  19. of them come down to power.  The pwoer of English in the world allows your
  20. cowboy not to flinch at the African student's 5 languages; the power of status,
  21. class, conservatism, ensures that "high" dialects remain the only accepted coin
  22. of high-stakes. Thus is the status quo perpetuated linguistically.
  23. Liz Hamp_Lyons
  24. English/Applied Language
  25. University of Colorado, Denver
  26. LHAMPLYONS@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu
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