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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: <1992Jul30.171303.9577@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 17:13:03 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.234545.2230@convex.com> <1992Jul30.044152.27117@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Jul30.060536.14722@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul30.060536.14722@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >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?
- >
-
- You seem to have misunderstood me. I have never repeat NEVER
- claimed that I speak the English English....but wish to do so, some
- day! My only assertion is that the English used by Englishmen is
- the standard for the language, and other variants of the language
- should be judged according to it.
-
- >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.
- >
- >--
- >
- > -Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
- > goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer
-
- Huh?? What are you? A psychologist? :)
-