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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: English English versus *American* English
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.185650.7149@news.eng.convex.com>
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
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- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- Organization: CONVEX Realtime Development, Colorado Springs, CO
- References: <1992Jul28.183222.20963@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:56:50 GMT
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- What a miserable, misinformed, prescriptive soul this Indian must have.
- Language has a life of its own, not subject to petty pronouncements.
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
-
- Now I surely will not plague you
- With such words as plaque and ague.
-