1. taglines
- Posted by Noah Smith <nhs6080 at UNIX.TAMU.EDU>
Sep 11, 1998
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Last edited Sep 12, 1998
The majority of Nate's little quotes are simply opinions, a few of which
my (American) friends hold. However, the most proper dialect of
"English" is actually found in the hills of Kentucky (e.g. the United
States). The dialect which the majority of British citizenry aspire to
is an effected dialect only developed recently. Perhaps you should do
your research, Nate.
As to your assertions of US war-mongering, who can we blame for the
atrocities in India?
For America to cede to Britain is also absurd. World War II bluntly
proved that America has the economic resources to be a real contender in
world power, when the UK did not.
Characterizing the entirety of America by its' laws or as bigheaded and
naive is exceedingly poor logic: first, "America" consists of two entire
continents. Even giving this little oversight, it must be noted that
the primary social and legislative bodies of the USA is the state, not
the nation as a whole.
snortboy
2. Re: taglines
Listen pal, we pro-Brits don't think that. It is true that there are
different dialects of English, but English started in England, so in a
sence, UK English is THE dialect. How can southern yahoos speak English?
You Americans seem to think that you've won WWII single-handedly. The
reason the UK needed help was simple, look at the size of Hitler's friggin
army!
Listen, America has been in this world as a country for some 200 years.
Britain has been around for 3,000. Your American textbooks are wrong. It's
a well known fact. You get us Canadians so enraged when we read your school
textbooks!
Now the good points of America:
I think it's nice to see people so patriotic about their country. In
Canada, what have we to be patriotic about? 
- Nate
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> From: Noah Smith <nhs6080 at UNIX.TAMU.EDU>
> To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: taglines
> Date: September 11, 1998 10:41 PM
>
> The majority of Nate's little quotes are simply opinions, a few of which
> my (American) friends hold. However, the most proper dialect of
> "English" is actually found in the hills of Kentucky (e.g. the United
> States). The dialect which the majority of British citizenry aspire to
> is an effected dialect only developed recently. Perhaps you should do
> your research, Nate.
>
> As to your assertions of US war-mongering, who can we blame for the
> atrocities in India?
> For America to cede to Britain is also absurd. World War II bluntly
> proved that America has the economic resources to be a real contender in
> world power, when the UK did not.
> Characterizing the entirety of America by its' laws or as bigheaded and
> naive is exceedingly poor logic: first, "America" consists of two entire
> continents. Even giving this little oversight, it must be noted that
> the primary social and legislative bodies of the USA is the state, not
> the nation as a whole.
>
> snortboy
