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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: <1992Jul30.051530.29959@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 05:15:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.000358.3376@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
- >From the keyboard of mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi):
- >:> 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....
- >:
- >:I do not know whether people reading my article have misunderstood that
- >:sentence intentionally or not.
- >
- >It would have helped if you had employed the proper placement of
- >a comma, as we native speakers typically do to signal the pause
- >in our voices preceding a noun of direct address.1
- >
- >--tom
- Is it proper netiquette to attack typos?? Alright, alright I
- am sorry about that too!!!
-