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- From: dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong)
- Subject: Re: California is NOT representative of the US as a whole
- Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:12:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <C0AqxB.DIC@wang.com>
- References: <i3558.725901920@newsie> <2JAN199315271515@elroy.uh.edu>
- Keywords: language
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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.
-
- I think the subject line was misspelled and probably
- spoked with an Italian accent.
-
- Dave
-
- (born in San Diego, CA, but mostly normal anyway)
-
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-
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