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To: kumar who wrote (113222)8/28/2003 7:29:40 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
OK, then, a Federation of English, American, Spanglish, and Rap-Speaking Democracies. This is only a temporary situation, as the emerging Global Village telecom pan-presence means the whole planet will eventually talk the way they do on Baywatch. If only we could all look like that...



To: kumar who wrote (113222)8/29/2003 9:47:35 PM
From: 8bits  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
"Perhaps you did not realize : Websters has an English Dictionary and an American Dictionary. "

So... did you write that in English or "American". (Or perhaps "Canadian" or "Australian") :)

The differences in the way English is spoken and written say between BBC English and English spoken on network broadcasts varies less than dialects within countries like Vietnam and Thailand were the regions may be only a few hundred kilometers apart.


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