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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!hsdndev!husc-news.harvard.edu!burrhus!isr.harvard.edu!glazier
  2. From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.humor
  4. Subject: Re: Credit Validation
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec29.172336.21079@burrhus.harvard.edu>
  6. Date: 29 Dec 92 17:23:36 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec28.153042.17251@dickens.c> <1453700022@igc.apc.org> <NAEEM.92Dec29104546@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
  8. Sender: news@burrhus.harvard.edu (USENET News System)
  9. Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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  12. In article <NAEEM.92Dec29104546@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Naeem Mohaiemen) writes:
  13. >-----
  14. >Although true stories, passing around anecdotes like this "for a laugh"
  15. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  16. Although they may be true stories, 
  17.  
  18.  
  19. >further enhance stereotyping of "foreigner"s as speaking "funny english".
  20.         ^^^^^^^^^                                                English."
  21.                                                                  ^^^    ^^ 
  22. that's "enhances" not "enhance"                                      
  23. "Enhance" is grammatically incorrect anyway, I think you mean "reinforces." 
  24.  
  25. >
  26. >Naeem Mohaiemen
  27. >--
  28. >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  29. >
  30. >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  31.  
  32. Open Mouth.
  33. Insert Foot.
  34. -- 
  35. "A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
  36. I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
  37. think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
  38. these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
  39.