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- Date: 24 Jan 93 21:56:32 -0700
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- I travelled around India a few years ago and was delighted with the English
- usage demonstrated there. A standard greeting was: "Hello.What is your good
- name. You are coming from?" They were the most literate people I ever met, in a
- Victorian sense.
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