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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: <1992Jul30.045304.28514@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 04:53:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.235645.2899@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
- >From the keyboard of mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi)
- >comes more drivel:
- >
- >(It is unbelievably offensive to have your native language berailed by
- >a foreigner whose first language is something else.)
- >
- >:Not if it was done by the native speakers of the language....the British.
- >
- >Which ones? Again, I refer you to the Welsh, whom perhaps you have
- >never visited. And while you're at it, go track down everyone born
- >speaking something other than RP and excoriate them, too. And have
- >a nice day.
-
- Sorry about that....I mean English specifically when I say British.
-
- >
- >
- >My, but this boy is hopelessly confused. There's a reason we say "apple"
- >with an "ae" sound instead of an "ah" -- because that's how the English
- >spoke when they came here. We still speak that language -- as native
- >speakers.
- >
- >
-
- Ha ha ha...that's a laugh...you pick up ONE word and
- claim that you are native speakers, just because the English and the
- Americans pronounce it the same way?? Heh heh heh....bless my soul!
- I too pronounce it the same way, because the English who came to my
- country pronounced it the same way too! But I repeat, neither me nor
- you are native speakers of the language.....simply poor facsmisiles.
-