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- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Path: sparky!uunet!darwin.sura.net!mips!apple!constellation!convex!tchrist
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: English English versus *American* English
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.030414.21108@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: <1992Jul29.200521.23765@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <84773@netnews.upenn.edu> <SLAGLE.92Jul29185948@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 03:04:14 GMT
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- From the keyboard of slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com:
- :In article <84773@netnews.upenn.edu>, crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- :
- :> In article <1992Jul29.200521.23765@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi) writes:
- :
- :>> All you Amercians out there....do not spoil the
- :>>English language (in other words, lay off! Keep away!, etc.)
- :
- :> O.K. Let's all speak French now.
- :
- :Shall we see if we can find interesting ways to
- :mutilate that one, too? Let's start by changing
- :all the "s" letters in "vous" to "z".
-
- Ay vooz avay kelka rezone poor nepah fair sa?
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
-
- Finally, which rhymes with enough --
- Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
-