Re: Hello to you all!
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 11, 2002, 1:55 |
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At 1:03 pm -0500 8/3/02, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Raymond wrote:
>>At 2:05 pm -0500 7/3/02, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>>[snip]
>> >
>> >At the very least, it ought to be preferable to people like me, whose
>> >English is an horrid mix of mainly Rightpondian pronunciation with a
>>quite
>> >americanized idiom.
>>
>>Why? It's certainly ucommon among native UK speakers ;)
>
>And that should be a factor to increase its attraction to purists?!?
Sorry - a severe case of early-morning hypocaffeination, I fear. I left
out a negative!!
I meant to write:
"Why? It's certainly _not_ uncommon among native UK speakers."
As for the purists - thankfully, they seem to be an endagered species; let
them stay in their ivory tower, while the rest of us get on with our lives
and let English happily evolve and develope its manifold varieties in its
own haphazard, unplanned & fortuitous way.
Ray.
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A mind which thinks at its own expense
will always interfere with language.
[J.G. Hamann 1760]
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