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- From: jhoskins@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James M Hoskins)
- Subject: Re: English English versus *American* English
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.221230.8473@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:12:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.173452.10941@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@midwa
- y.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi) writes:
- >
- > You are mixing up colloquial and written English! My argument
- >is against defacing written English. There are, I agree, many English
- >dialects all over the world......but the written English standard is
- >the one set by Englishmen.
- >
- >
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- And, as an American, I feel obliged to state, uncategorically, that in my daily
- writing I reject (previous to today at an entirely unconscious level) the
- written English standard set by "Englishmen."
-
- [Comme vous etes fou.]
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