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  1. Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!wupost!udel!rochester!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bl2m+
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Message-ID: <4eRq4YW00awQACfEou@andrew.cmu.edu>
  5. Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:25:24 -0400 
  6. From: "Benjamin D. Lukoff" <bl2m+@andrew.cmu.edu>
  7. Subject: "Native Speakers of English"
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  10. mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi) wrote:
  11.  
  12. >Let me repeat...you are NOT native speakers of the language.....maybe
  13. >some (not all) of your forefathers were....but their predecessors seem
  14. to >have contorted it.
  15.  
  16. You're Indian, right, Mandar? Well, neither are YOU a native speaker of
  17. the language, if that's how you want to go about it. I suppose the Irish
  18. aren't native speakers of the language either.....neither are the Welsh
  19. or the Scots......since it's ENGLISH after all.
  20.  
  21. I am certainly a native speaker of the English language.
  22.  
  23. Ben Lukoff
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