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- From: goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: English English versus *American* English
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.060536.14722@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 06:05:36 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.192334.20498@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Jul29.234545.2230@convex.com> <1992Jul30.044152.27117@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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- mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi) writes:
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- > Unarmed?? - I think not!
- >Battle?? - Right now it's one person against many.....although a solitary
- >soul did chip in. Hey all you guys who follow the English English, I
- >could do with some help out here. (It's a pity that 90% of the readers
- >of this article would be from the US).
-
- You apparently have selective hearing. Several posters have pointed
- out that you lack facility with English articles, and with other subtle-
- ties of the language. This may, in fact, be due to your background.
- I find that Indian people virtually always claim that they are speaking
- British English, and yet I have not met a single one that actually
- sounded like a Brit. Why this preoccupation with something that has
- no practical use, and which is clearly not being attained?
-
- My theory is that it's a large-scale identification-with-the-captor
- complex that released hostages and prisoners often feel for quite some
- time after their experience ends.
-
- --
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- -Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
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