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- From: dlm@sjfc.UUCP (Don Muench)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,soc.culture.british
- Subject: Re: American mathematical hegemony
- Summary: Susan misunderstood
- Message-ID: <2183@sjfc.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 03:44:38 GMT
- References: <2176@sjfc.UUCP> <sooz.711677426@vincent1.iastate.edu>
- Organization: St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY
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- In article <sooz.711677426@vincent1.iastate.edu>, sooz@iastate.edu (Susan F Bradley) writes:
- >
- > N.B. I do not intend for the following to be a direct reply to Mr. Muench and
- > hope that he takes no offense by this!
- >
- > Personally, I don't care what a person's accent is and it seems to me that too
- > many people get caught up in going on about who's pronunciation is best.
- >
- > Susan Bradley
-
- I believe Ms. Bradley misunderstood what I was saying. I was not asserting
- that one accent or another was "best" or "right". I was merely saying that
- I feel "at home" in a rather special way, when I am talking to a very
- friendly kinsman from "back home" who speaks with the rhythm and cadence
- of the place where i was brought up. It isn't a matter of right or wrong
- or best. The other point I was trying to make, in a rather humorous way, is
- that I'm proud to be different.
-
- So, Sue, I don't take offense. However, I do want to say also that I don't
- recall that anyone has been saying that this-or-that pronunciation is
- superior. An accent is part of what a person is, and often (usually) "accents"
- the person in a wonderfully interesting way.
-
- Don
-