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From: "Thomas E. Callaghan" <valkyrie@fyi.net>
Subject: Re: Anounsing a nu Ingglish spelling
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Daan Sandee wrote:
> 
> In article <32CD480A.4FB7@fyi.net> valkyrie@fyi.net writes:
> |> Mr Edd wrote:
> |> >
> |> > I just got this from a French friend in Australia he got it from a friend
> |> > in Canada.
> |> > Enjoy
> |> > Edd
> |> >
> |> > ----------
> |> > From:   Lyman Duggan[SMTP:Lyman@cyberspy.cyberspy.com]
> |> > Sent:   Wednesday, 1 January 1997 5:07
> |> > To:     joke.lovers.everywhere@cyberspy.cyberspy.com
> |> > Subject:        the English language
> 
> This was stolen from Mark Twain.  Copyright has expired, but it's still
> plagiarism.
> [megasnip]
> 
> |> Am I correct in saying that the German language missed being the common
> |> language in the USA by ONE vote x number of years ago??
> 
> First, learn how to restrict your quoting.  There is no need to quote a
> 70-line article to append a barely relevant two-line followup.
> 
> The German-nearly-was-the-official-language is an urban legend. See
> http://www.urbanlegends.com/language/german_us_official_lang.html.
> 
> Daan Sandee
> Burlington, MA          Use this email address:  sandee (at) east . sun . com
If your referring to the Roosevelt quote, it's 11 lines.. and no none
appointed you the major domo of posts?

