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   From: innes8@verizon.net   
      
   "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?   
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   >> 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.   
      
   Okay, this language we speak here is Anglo-Celtic, no? John Fowles who had a   
   Cornish mother said so. Yet in this, there is much variety, and a different   
   stress here and there on regional values, which mass media homogenises as if   
   culture were some simile for common language, and which it necessarily in   
   its broad appeal, glosses the difference thereof. I have not found this   
   universal factor of language to be any true indicator of regional or   
   specific value, except as [necessary?] expedient to propose political   
   affiliation.   
      
   Cordially, Phil Innes   
      
   > Allan   
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