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Re: Time to stand up for the USA (Community)
Re: Time to stand up for the USA // Community
Jun 22, 2004, 12:44pm
Also, the above was not directed at carolann, it was in reference to what
Richard stated :)
[View Quote]"alaskanshadow" <monkeysarepretty at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:40d8457d$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> The US didn't "steal" any languages, the US was settled by the brits, who
> what a concept, spoke english! my gosh, I'm surprised they don't have that
> in british history books :O Either that or you simply chose to disregard
> that to create your petty argument. The same can be said for the
> pronunciation of "your" language. if you're going to create a lanuage, at
> least pronounce it how you claim it should be pronounced, and don't use
the
> excuse of "its pronounced funny because of our accents, but we created the
> language so we dont have accents and so our accents make it correct". No,
no
> it is not correct. There are rules to the english language, and 80% of the
> time, your accents (yes you do have accents-accents which contradict how
> your words are supposed to be pronounced when YOUR country created the
rules
> for your language) completely disregard that. We may botch the spelling
for
> a few words here in the US but for the most part, the way americans
> pronounce words in the english language is correct. Hell even people from
> England will agree other brits have accents you can hardly understand
based
> on where they live. Don't try to tell me not being able to understand
> someone speaking the same language as you is correct simply because theyre
> from england, because thats a joke. Now please, all you brits come leave
me
> hate messages.
>
> "carolann" <carolannh at charter.net> wrote in message
> news:40d7ed4b$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
democracy,
that
way.
> people
> the
> the
just
> "stealing"
there
people
> on
seem
> to
> we
the
how
> people
> effot,
wasn't
if
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