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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!mercury.unt.edu!sol!ac05
  3. From: SB
  4. Subject: An Indian Response
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul31.135417.15717@mercury.unt.edu>
  6. Originator: ac05@sol
  7. Sender: usenet@mercury.unt.edu (UNT USENet Adminstrator)
  8. Organization: University of North Texas
  9. Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:54:17 GMT
  10. Lines: 10
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  12. Mandar Mukund obviously has no idea what he's talking about.  If people weren't
  13. allowed to change the language, how could we Indians make such obvious
  14. improvements to English as cousin-brother, cousin-sister, maternal-uncle-on
  15. -my-father's side, among others?
  16.  
  17. In view of these and other splendid contributions we have made to the English
  18. language, I am sure that the readership of this newsgroup will excuse us for
  19. Mr. Mukund -- there's always one in every 800 million persons.
  20.  
  21. SB
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