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How the English language became such a mess
BBC News ^
| June 8, 2015
| James Harbeck
Posted on 06/09/2015 6:37:00 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: familyop
Fellow Americans, don’t try to use Oxford English, and do certainly avoid trying to emulate Limey slang. If you fail to follow that advice, you’ll end up sounding like a Frenchman.A-friggin-men.
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06/13/2015 12:15:09 AM PDT
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Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
To: Tainan
Thanks. And howdy! Haven’t seen anything from you for a while. Hope business is good there.
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06/13/2015 7:06:12 PM PDT
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familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: Hawthorn
Rather, English has truly become the default international language that virtually every educated person uses when traveling or communicating outside his/her own country.
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Except in the USA.
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06/13/2015 7:09:26 PM PDT
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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