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From: randall2@netcom.com (R.B Franklin)
Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
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Hinsen Konrad (hinsenk@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA) wrote:
: In article <3h8jvp$jjh@gabriel.keele.ac.uk> u4d14@cc.keele.ac.uk (JM White) writes:

:    What are you drivelling on about? English is English, just with very slight
:    variations. I can understand Americans, Scots, Welsh, Irish equally, it's

: Fine for you. Unfortunately, *I* can't. On a recent visit to Texas,
: I had some trouble understanding some people, although I get along
: in Britain and the Northern USA quite well.

Likewise, being from Texas myself, I have an awful hard time understanding
many folks from the UK.

(Not that it matter much to this discussion; I don't reckon Texas to be 
joining the EC anytime soon.)  ;-)

R.B. Franklin
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