Re: Atlantean Corpus
| From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 10, 2001, 3:30 |
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Am 07/09 06:39 Thomas R. Wier yscrifef:
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> > But apparently Michael J. Fox needed more help than the others.
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> And he is Canadian, no?
>
> The presumption that it has anything to do with America, rather
> than with how English speakers in general would have to deal
> with their noticeably unphonemic orthography, is dubious IMHO.
>
Fox also suffers from a debilitating disease - Parkinson's disease I
believe. It could be that rather than he is North American which is why
he needed more help. It did lead him to retiring from Spin City.
- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@griffler.co.nz
alias Mungo Foxburr of Loamsdown
http://hobbit.griffler.co.nz/homepage.html
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