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   From: ccaine@worldnet.att.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?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> the question is, British what? language or culture?   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
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   >> 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.   
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   > Aye if Eastenders has been about in the 60s then maybe Dick Van Dyke would   
   > have dome a better job on his Cockney chimney sweep accent!   
      
   Yes but had he spoken in some incomprehensible tongue, would the film made a   
   dime?   
      
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