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- Path: sparky!uunet!darwin.sura.net!convex!tchrist
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: English English versus *American* English
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.000127.3197@convex.com>
- Originator: tchrist@convex.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account)
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- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- Organization: CONVEX Realtime Development, Colorado Springs, CO
- References: <keRU3yK00iUx07W1p6@andrew.cmu.edu> <Bs5qEL.LFF@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Jul29.203036.25275@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:01:27 GMT
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- From the keyboard of mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi):
- : Exactly the point which was trying to drive home....no single
- :individual has the authority to change the language. The spelling
- :can be changed only if a majority of it's native speakers (I mean
- :the English, here) concur.
-
- I think you mean "its", not "it's", but since you're disadvantage,
- I won't hold it too much against you.
-
- Funny that the Scots and Irish aren't native speakers of English.
-
- :You chaps seem to have wreaked a war on
- :the language, which is most shameful! Why deface such a beautiful
- :language?
-
- Shame shame shame again. Did you bring any autoflagellation devices
- with you, MMM?
-
- --tom
- --
- "GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible
- to accomplish complex actions." --Doug Gwyn (22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards)
-
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
-