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Post #40,665
by ben_tilly
5/31/02 12:20:50 AM
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New Note the key word "English"
If you can't be understood down in Texas, it ain't English, mate!

:-P

Ben
"... I couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything."
--Richard Feynman
Post #40,690
by CRConrad
5/31/02 8:52:30 AM
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New Why? Why not the other way around?
Seems just as reasonable to me to say that if some dumb Texan doesn't understand Indian English, then it's the *Texan* who is at fault; then he doesn't really understand English.

Seems you only have to be half American to make that annoying assumption that America is the measure of all things.
   Christian R. Conrad
Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764|Andrew Grygus]
Post #40,819
by ben_tilly
6/1/02 12:45:16 AM
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New You missed half the point
Texans are infamous for believing that the center of the world must be in the USA because the USA contains Texas. That is, Texan arrogance is to US arrogance what US arrogance is to the rest of the world.

They also have strong accents, and don't do too well at understanding Australians. :-)

IOW I wasn't just tweaking Wade.

Cheers,
Ben
"... I couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything."
--Richard Feynman
Post #40,927
by CRConrad
6/3/02 2:03:53 AM
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New Ah, OK.
     License Plate: NO YNIN - (Another Scott) - (15) - June 1, 2002, 06:17:17 AM EDT
         Huh? -NT - (kmself) - (13) - May 27, 2002, 06:25:00 PM EDT
             No Whining (whinin') -NT - (folkert) - (12) - May 27, 2002, 07:51:57 PM EDT
                 I'm *not* whinging... - (kmself) - (11) - May 27, 2002, 08:10:05 PM EDT
                     OK... I took the hook.... - (folkert) - May 27, 2002, 08:20:48 PM EDT
                     Is it... - (folkert) - (9) - May 27, 2002, 11:43:28 PM EDT
                         OT. What *is* that pic? - (Silverlock) - (1) - May 28, 2002, 12:06:37 AM EDT
                             Resistance is... - (folkert) - May 29, 2002, 08:05:51 PM EDT
                         It is: "two nations separated by a common language" - (Ashton) - (6) - May 28, 2002, 03:03:03 AM EDT
                             Only two? What planet do you think you're on? :-) - (static) - (5) - May 28, 2002, 06:56:59 AM EDT
                                 Well... I was lumping it into: Members of the Raj and - (Ashton) - May 28, 2002, 10:58:17 PM EDT
                                 Note the key word "English" - (ben_tilly) - (3) - May 31, 2002, 12:20:50 AM EDT
                                     Why? Why not the other way around? - (CRConrad) - (2) - May 31, 2002, 08:52:30 AM EDT
                                         You missed half the point - (ben_tilly) - (1) - June 1, 2002, 12:45:16 AM EDT
                                             Ah, OK. -NT - (CRConrad) - June 3, 2002, 02:03:53 AM EDT
         L. Plate seen in CA circa 1978: 6UL DV8 -NT - (mmoffitt) - June 5, 2002, 12:23:02 AM EDT

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