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- From: naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Naeem Mohaiemen)
- Subject: Re: Credit Validation
- In-Reply-To: Skip Vogt's message of 28 Dec 92 13:01 PST
- References: <1992Dec28.153042.17251@dickens.c> <1453700022@igc.apc.org>
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- Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:45:46 GMT
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- In article <1453700022@igc.apc.org> Skip Vogt <skip@igc.apc.org> writes:
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- This reminds me of a story told by a colleague of mine who was on an
- airplane one day seated next to someone whose native language was not
- American English.
- As the plane began its takeoff, the gentleman next to my colleague
- began pushing the flight attendant call button furiously, but since
- the flight attendants were all strapped in for takeoff, no one answered.
- Finally, when the plane reached sufficient altitude, one of the female
- flight attendants came down the aisle toward the gentleman, but he
- began shouting:
- "Lady! Lady! I have been fingering you for 10 minutes and you
- haven't come yet!"
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- Although true stories, passing around anecdotes like this "for a laugh"
- further enhance stereotyping of "foreigner"s as speaking "funny english".
-
- Naeem Mohaiemen
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