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Subject: Re: Re: Inappropriate Articles - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 22-May-84 11:07:00 EDT
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/**** uiucdcs:net.flame / moriarty@uw-june /  3:23 am  May 21, 1984 ****/
	Ah, yes, just another example of the multi-lingual conspiracy alive
and flourising in this country.  A bunch of foreign professors at some pinko
college (probably Oxford or Cambridge or one of those other temples to
Communism... bunch of pooftahs, the lot of 'em) get envious because our
country has neutron bombs and cable TV and Joan Collins (I bet they want 'er
back, too) and break dancing and Joe Bob Briggs and loads of fun stuff, and
all they have is a pretty-good looking princess who they can fantasize over,
and that's it (they don't even make very good cars either).  So they decide
to make fun of our language and tell us it ain't correct, just to make them
feel superior.  Well, let me ask all those stale limeys, how about all your
cockney folks, huh?  They can't even pronounce `h's.  Pretty sad state all
around if you ask me.  Frankly, any country that can produce the likes of
Rod McKuen has nothing to be ashamed of, literary-wise.

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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     They may only have a princess, but they also have a Commonwealth.  And you
know what comes from there?  WOMBATS!  So pity not the poor British.  :-)
     And since this is net.flame:

The cockneys aren't the only ones who can't pronounce their 'h's.  I have had
it up to here with people who say "an historic". It's 'a'!  What do you think
the 'h' is there for?  Because 7 letter words are unlucky?  Especially when
these people go on to pronounce the 'h' anyway.  Putting 'an' in front of it
sounds ugly and awkward.  And how many of you eat erbs?  Sounds like something
frogs eat, huh?  These 'h's are just taking up space, not even affecting the
sound of other letters.  Useless, except to improve the language's unemployment
figures.

FLAME OFF.

             Did I really write this?
             Kenneth Kaufman
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