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- From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: English English versus *American* English
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.010715.15912@convex.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 01:07:15 GMT
- References: <SLAGLE.92Jul29185948@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com> <1992Jul30.030414.21108@news.eng.convex.com> <SLAGLE.92Jul30160529@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
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- From the keyboard of slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com:
- :In article <1992Jul30.030414.21108@news.eng.convex.com>, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:
- :
- :> From the keyboard of slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com:
- :
- :> :In article <84773@netnews.upenn.edu>, crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- :
- :> :> O.K. Let's all speak French now.
- :
- :> :Shall we see if we can find interesting ways to
- :> :mutilate that one, too? Let's start by changing
- :> :all the "s" letters in "vous" to "z".
- :
- :> Ay vooz avay kelka rezone poor nepah fair sa?
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- Vraymaw, say pah nesasair, mow nahmee.
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- --tom
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- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
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