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- From: mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: English English versus *American* English
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.200521.23765@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 20:05:21 GMT
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- plu@math.psu.edu (T. Andrew Simpson) writes:
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- >American is still fairly beautiful by this standard....
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- Not at all...it has already been mutilated.....
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- > This is what makes English so unique! So lay off Americans!
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Lots of American companies have been doing this lately. Actually they've
- >been laying off employees of every nationality....
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- I do not know whether people reading my article have misunderstood that
- sentence intentionally or not. Anyway, what I meant by that remark ("lay
- off Americans") was : All you Amercians out there....do not spoil the
- English language (in other words, lay off! Keep away!, etc.)
-
- >Never cared much for smileys either. But this is not a flame, as I can't
- >take your article seriously. Or did someone else hijack your terminal?
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- I did not think you would take it seriously right now...maybe someday, you
- will. Nope.....nobody hijacked my terminal.
-