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   From: innes8@verizon.net   
      
   "Conway Caine"  wrote in message   
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   > "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
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   >> "Chess One"  wrote in message   
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   >>>>>> >> > Why say English here? Why not say British?   
   >>>   
   >>> the question is, British what? language or culture?   
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   >> People!  That is what was being talked about. Someone suggested that the   
   >> English weren't good at foreign languages. Someone else wondered why the   
   >> English were being singled out.   
   >   
   > Speaking of which, I've watched a couple of episodes of "The Eastenders".   
   > What language are they speaking? Certainly not English.   
   > I had to use closed captions to follow the dialog.   
      
   ROFL!   
      
   Derived from East Saxon, friend. And then from some deliberation, obscured   
   in a metropolis, so that communication should be somewhat clannish, rather   
   than any universal modus.   
      
   Heuch! Phil   
      
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