OT: en_?? [was Re: [Gllug] Proposal for next GLLUG meeting]

[Pete Ryland]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 02:44:12 +0000, Kim Hawtin wrote:
> > You say that in jest, but daily I find it so amazing how different the
> > (spoken) "languages" are.
>  
> Pete,
> 
> theres a couple of things you have to find out the hard way...
> 
> you see, they feel they invented it[1], and have the right to change
> it[2], the rest of us just use the language... and they get really
> snotty if we[3] get cute and do our own language contortion.
> 
> but you get that in the big city =)

Seems there's *way* more aussies/kiwis/saffies/etc here than I at first
thought!

As far as the language goes, well, we have the same words (mostly) and
grammar (mostly), but a lot is well different, as they would say here.

Pete

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