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- From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: English English versus *American* English
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- Date: 31 Jul 92 15:28:43 GMT
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- In article <Bs99E0.A19@wpi.WPI.EDU> padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton) writes:
- >Perhaps we should start a movement to stop people in India and Pakistan
- >and other countries of the sort to stop using English at all. I mean,
- >they're all FOREIGNERS! We can't have anyone speaking OUR language unless
- >they can trace their ancestors back to the Mother Country.
- >
- >And maybe you should read Chaucer or Shakespeare back in the "original"
- >English they were written in (funny how all the "original" speakers are
- >DEAD!!!), just to see how much spelling (AND pronunciation) has evolved.
- >
- Is there anyone out there, please, please, please, who has saved this
- thread? If so, will you email it to me? It just keeps getting
- better.
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