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- From: SB
- Subject: Re: one more follow-up on the great debate
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.134046.15557@mercury.unt.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:40:46 GMT
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- michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au (Bunweasel) writes:
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- [in response to Mandar Mukund's bilge, deleted]
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- >Also, I am finding those precise characteristics of the very beautiful
- >language which we are knowing as English, as she is spoken in fairest
- >India that differ in one way or another from the corresponding
- >characteristics of this language as she is spoken in the country of
- >our monarch to be something one can only put one's finger on with
- >great difficulty, don't you think so, babu? :-)
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- >(I must look up that reference. Indian English, even from writers who
- >don't display the obvious quirks seems very different in a nice kind of way.)
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- Yes, saar! We all laike to spik that vay in India, saar -- but it is so vary
- kind ov you, saar, to aapreciate our hamble efforts in spiking your
- laanguage. Vell, saar, as I was saying, saar, ve laike to spik that way so
- ve are sounding jaast laike you, don't you think so, Sahib?
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- SB
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