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- From: eclipse@netcom.com (Brian McCullough)
- Subject: Re: California is NOT representative of the US as a whole
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.224353.25750@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <2JAN199315271515@elroy.uh.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:43:53 GMT
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- st1ns@elroy.uh.edu (Ault, Russell W.) writes:
- : In article <i3558.725901920@newsie>, i3558@newsie.dc.dk (Soren Michael Roug) writes...
- : >I seems to me that this discussion is mostly, if not completely carried
- : >out by americans. My advice to you is that if you want to improve your
- : >english language then learn the King's english, not those barbarian dialects
- : >the yanks choose to utter. It is my understanding that the yanks find a
- : >properly spoken UK accent "cute". Well, I won't call myself an expert, but
- : >I have been to USA several times, and some of those wordings one get to
- : >hear notably in California make my toes curl. And behold; In some restaurants
- : >they don't give people utensils to eat with.
- : >--
- :
- : Only a Californian would call California a part of the civilised world. The
- : rest of us know that not everything "edible" is palatable, and that inventing
- : a new (and illogical) usage for an existing word or phrase (or an equally
- : illogical construction for an existing usage) is neither a profitable activity
- : nor one which is likely to increase the degree to which one is making himself
- : understood. I dread the prospect of having to visit California. For all
- : their slurred and slang-infested modes of speech, I prefer talking to someone
- : from southern Louisiana than a vacuocephalic Californian. (I sometimes wonder,
- : though, if that designation is not redundant?)
- :
- : The worst part of the situation is that the disease (Californitis?) seems to
- : be spreading. It has even shown up in such isolated places as Cut & Shoot,
- : Texas (a real place, just north of Houston), much to the dismay of many. If
- : it continues, I may have to establish a new detoxification program to deal
- : with the afflicted, something along the lines of a Californiacs Anonymous,
- : with classes in Getting On With It, Differentiating Between Gratuitous
- : Criticism and Actual Insult, and Eating Without Analysis. I welcome any
- : suggestions for additional items to add to the curriculum, and there is
- : some urgency involved since there is a small danger that I may have to move
- : to California this year. Fortunately, I've already been immunized. And
- : even more important, I have discovered that there are still enclaves of the
- : unafflicted even in the L.A. basin, although they often adopt the outward
- : appearance of the multitudes as protective coloration.
- :
- : Sadly, I doubt that I will be able to pass as a Californian myself at any
- : time in the near future. I refuse to wear clothes that do not fit properly,
- : I don't wear footwear that is designed to be used without socks, I loathe
- : beaches, I keep my skin untanned and my hair unbleached, and my voice is
- : at least two octaves too low.
- :
- : I guess I'll just have to get my groceries in Nevada.
- :
- :
-
- Complaints about uncivilized behavior -- from a TEXAN???
-
-
- ..Brian McCullough (a Coloradan exiled to California for criminal lack of
- prejudice)
-
- ObJoke:
-
- How many Colorado Springs residents does it take to screw in a light bulb?
-
- Only one, but it better be a man. If a woman is caught doing the screwing,
- her civil rights will be revoked.
-
- --
- ---------------------------------
- Brian C. McCullough eclipse@netcom.netcom.com Opinions of self only
-
- "The early worm goes forth with zeal to give the hungry birds a meal.
- His brother has no such intention, and lives to draw his old-age pension."
- -Montagu C. Butler
-