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From: spw2562@ritcv.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Alphabetical Order
Message-ID: <9065@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 14:47:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 14:47:59 1985
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Reply-To: spw2562@ritcv.UUCP (Stephen P. Wall)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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In article <797@inset.UUCP> mikeb@inset.UUCP (Mike Banahan) writes:
>In article <40@diku.UUCP> kimcm@diku.UUCP (Kim Christian Madsen) writes:
>>others are blasting americans (you know the people from over the sea,
>>NO, not australians YANKEE's...(-;) because they don't speak a 'proper'
>>english (and not even proper american!!! )-;) .....
>>				Kim Chr. Madsen
>Ho ho ho. Now, as I put on the flame reistant underwear, asbestos suit
>cooled by liquid nitrogen, let us open a debate

flame retardant- good idea..  VERY good idea..

>PROPSITION: Americans, in the large, not only cannot speak English,
>	they can't even *understand* it.

Hey, we speak english great.  It's british we have trouble with...

>SUPPORTING EVIDENCE: Whenever I go there, I have to drop into Standard
>English (restricted vocabulary of 1500 words, no idiomatic use), and use
>Received Pronunciation (special attention paid to stress points, word endings;
>standardised vowel sounds), if I want to be understood. I find that use
>of normal spoken English results in incessant requests from U.S. native
>citizens for me to slow down and repeat things; occasionally blank
>gazes make me realise that I am just not being uderstood at all.

If this is your evidence, maybe you should try learning english 8-)...

>Mike Banahan, Technical Director, The Instruction Set Ltd.
>mcvax!ukc!inset!mikeb

At least we know what diapers and bisquits are...   8-)

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