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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: Please learn English better
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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 01:42:59 GMT
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Sheldon Scott <bi947985@cranfield.ac.uk> writes in a recent posting (reference <32B883F3.167E@cranfield.ac.uk>):
>
>I've gotten alot of E-mail flame over the above, primarily from people
>who pride themselves on their expertise of international liguistics, and
>cosmopolitan nature.
>
>Well if you're so cosmopolitan, you might understand that the above was
>humour, and self-depreciating at that.
>
Some folks are so humourless that they need to be instructed when
to smile.  :-)

>If your other languages are as bad as your English, you might as well
>give up and join the monoglots.
>
Or the non-glots.

>Gutten Tag.
>
... and to all a good night....

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