Klarinet Archive - Posting 000271.txt from 2004/03

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@------.f9.co.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] English and American
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:28:17 -0500

I'm not sure - nice quotation anyway, only I don't agree with it!

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: George Kidder [mailto:gkidder@------.org]
Sent: 05 March 2004 13:18
To: klarinet@------.org
Subject: Re: [kl] English and American

Wasn't it H. L. Menkin who spoke of America and England as "two
countries
divided by a common language."?

At 04:31 AM 3/5/04, you wrote:
>I think what Fred meant was that the English speak English and the
>Americans speak American.
>
><snip>

>Matthew
>(England!)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: noone nonya [mailto:klarinets@------.com]
>Sent: 04 March 2004 23:16
>To: klarinet@------.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Fwd: [SMB] Dont Amend Protest
>
>i think fred meant that we (americans) dont speak their dialect...
>although
>no offense, we say every variation of "fuck" just like they do... i
>think
>thats good enough to say we speak english
>
>(the guy formally known as no one) -Dave-
>
>
> >From: "Rebecca Brennan" <u_cant_kill_the_rooster@------.com>
> >Reply-To: klarinet@------.org
> >To: klarinet@------.org
> >Subject: Re: [kl] Fwd: [SMB] Dont Amend Protest
> >Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 17:53:02 -0500
> >
> >Aye...we (Americans) do not speak English...
> >
> >
> >>From: "Fred Wilson" <fred.wilson@------.edu>
> >>Reply-To: klarinet@------.org
> >>To: <klarinet@------.org>
> >>Subject: Re: [kl] Fwd: [SMB] Dont Amend Protest
> >>Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:19:20 -0600
> >>
> >>UK can never become part of the US
> >>
> >>We could never figure out the Pound
> >>We would confuse pound coins with quarters
> >>We don't really speak English
> >>
> >>Just no way we would be able to manage it.
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@------.f9.co.uk>
> >>To: <klarinet@------.org>
> >>Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 10:15 AM
> >>Subject: RE: [kl] Fwd: [SMB] Dont Amend Protest
> >>
> >>
> >> > I'm sorry but I have missed the annexation of the United Kingdom
by
> >> > America. Are we really the fifty first state?
> >> >
> >> > I really think that President Blair should have told us....
> >> >
> >> > Matthew Lloyd
> >> > South Leicestershire
> >> > England
> >> >
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: tony-w@------.co.uk [mailto:tony-w@------.co.uk]
> >> > Sent: 02 March 2004 15:01
> >> > To: klarinet@------.org
> >> > Subject: Re: [kl] Fwd: [SMB] Dont Amend Protest
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > From: Matthew Lloyd <Matthew@------.f9.co.uk>
> >> >
> >> > > What are you talking about? You read (if you followed Tony P's
>links)
> >> > > the explanation of how these males became to be viewed as
sacred.
> >> > >
> >> > > Why place the word "American" in quotation marks - are you
>suggesting
> >> > > that he isn't a proper American?
> >> >
> >> > Matthew,
> >> > There are Indians and Indians aren`t there? American and Asian.
>And, I
> >> > used
> >> > quotation marks because your country wasn`t called America when
the
> >> > whites
> >> > hadn`t at that time discovered it. They were indeed Asian Indians
>in
> >>the
> >> > beginning, probably mixed with a little Eskimo; and what have you
>got
> >>-
> >> > an
> >> > American Indian, whether it`s in quotes or not.
> >> > Tony W.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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